For anyone in the Boston area, some of the B's including Bergeron and Thomas are going to have a parade with the cup in the North End today. I guess it will be back in MA until opening night. Loads of appearances with more to come:
Fri 9/2 - Peter Chiarelli, Belmont, MA
Tues 9/6 - Shawn Thornton, Boston
Wed 9/7 - Claude Julien, Lexington, MA
Thur 9/8 - Cam Neely , Boston
Fri 9/9 - Ryan Nadeau (Director of Hockey Administration), Taunton, MA
Sat 9/10 - Harry Sinden , Winchester, MA
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She's going with The Flyers.pieceofme wrote:Have you decided which team to follow?Anne_Thrax wrote:Speaking of the cup, Michael Ryder dented it really bad yesterday. He took it home to Newfoundland somehow managed to do this to it:
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A shame. Belak was a badass.jizzyjizim wrote:Looks like Wade Belak has been found dead in a Toronto hotel room...great fighter...only 35, sad, RIP
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=374888
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The Jets' uniforms were unveiled. They're pretty dull.
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Lardbucket wrote:The Jets' uniforms were unveiled. They're pretty dull.
And from the color scheme to the logo they look like Maple Leafs-light.
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I'm underwhelmed. The logo looks good on a t-shirt, but not so much on a jersey. Then again, we're so use to over the top, that anything "classic" or understated comes off as boring I guess.Tommy wrote:Lardbucket wrote:The Jets' uniforms were unveiled. They're pretty dull.
And from the color scheme to the logo they look like Maple Leafs-light.
Personally, I would have gone with the old logo, and used the new, slightly darker/double blue, color scheme.
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Not an NHL matter but a plane carrying KHL team Lokomotiv Jaroslavl players to the opening match in Minsk has crashed. 36 people have died. Former NHL players Pavol Demitra, Karlis Skrastins and Ruslan Salei are members of the Lokomotiv team.
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Brad McCrimmon was the coach of the Russian team. He was a former Bruin and Red Wing.
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What a horrible tragedy, and just a shitty year for hockey all around. I liked Skrastins, he was a former Av. RIP to all. 
I liked Skrastins, he was a former Av. RIP to all. Fuck sigs.
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And Flyer.SkyDog112046 wrote:Brad McCrimmon was the coach of the Russian team. He was a former Bruin and Red Wing.
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http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/07/tr ... r-khl-teamJohn Simon Ritchie wrote:And Flyer.SkyDog112046 wrote:Brad McCrimmon was the coach of the Russian team. He was a former Bruin and Red Wing.
Former NHL players Pavol Demitra along with Karel Rachunek, Karlis Skrastins, Ruslan Salei and Josef Vasicek were on the roster. Reports indicated the only survivor was a crew member and the news sent shockwaves through the hockey community.
It's unknown if they were actually on the plane.
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Fucking sucks. The plane they were on was to be retired in one month.ShearMagic wrote:Not an NHL matter but a plane carrying KHL team Lokomotiv Jaroslavl players to the opening match in Minsk has crashed. 36 people have died. Former NHL players Pavol Demitra, Karlis Skrastins and Ruslan Salei are members of the Lokomotiv team.
Russia has the worst air safety record. 13 times the fatalities than the United States.
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An unthinkable tragedy. RIP to those who lost their lives, and god bless their loved ones.
TUNOSHNA, Russia (AP)—A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team crashed just after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people and leaving two others critically injured, officials said. It was one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane crashed into a riverbank on the Volga River immediately after leaving an airport near the western city of Yaroslavl, 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow. It was sunny at the time.
The plane was carrying the Lokomotiv ice hockey team from Yaroslavl to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where the team was to play Thursday against Dinamo Minsk in the opening game of the season for the Kontinental Hockey League. The ministry said the plane had 45 people on board, including 37 passengers and eight crew.
Officials said Russian player Alexander Galimov survived the crash along with a crewmember.
A Czech embassy official said Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek were among those killed, and Latvian officials confirmed the death of Latvian defenseman Karlis Skrastins.
“This is the darkest day in the history of our sport. This is not only a Russian tragedy, the Lokomotiv roster included players and coaches from 10 nations,” said Rene Fasel, president of the international Ice Hockey Federation. “This is a terrible tragedy for the global ice hockey community.”
In recent years, Russia and the other former Soviet republics have had some of the world’s worst air traffic safety records. Experts blame the poor safety record on the age of the aircraft, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.
The plane that crashed was built in 1993 and belonged to a small Moscow-based Yak Service company.
Swarms of police and rescue crews rushed to Tunoshna, a picturesque village with a blue-domed church on the banks of the Volga River. One of the plane’s engines could be seen poking out of the river and a flotilla of boats combed the water for bodies. Russian rescue workers struggled to heft the bodies of large, strong athletes in stretchers up the muddy, steep riverbank.
One resident, Irina Pryakhova, saw the plane going down, then heard a loud bang and saw a plume of smoke.
“It was wobbling in flight, it was clear that something was wrong,” she said. “I saw them pulling bodies to the shore, some still in their seats with seatbelts on.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin immediately sent the nation’s transport minister to the site, 10 miles (15 kilometers) east of Yaroslavl. President Dmitry Medvedev also planned to tour the crash site.
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl is a leading force in Russian hockey and came third in the KHL last year. The team’s coach is Canadian Brad McCrimmon, who took over in May. He was most recently an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings, and played for years in the NHL for Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Hartford and Phoenix.
The Russian team also featured several top European players and former NHL stars, including Slovakian forward and national team captain Pavol Demitra, who played in the NHL for the St. Louis Blues and Vancouver Canucks.
Other top names on the team include Russian defenseman Ruslan Salei(notes and Swedish goalie Stefan Liv.
The KHL is an international club league that pits together teams from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Slovakia. Lokomotiv was a three-time Russian League champion in 1997, 2002-2003. It took bronze last season.
A cup match between hockey teams Salavat Yulaev and Atlant in the central Russian city of Ufa was called off midway after news of the crash was announced by Kontinental Hockey League head Alexander Medvedev. Russian television broadcast images of an empty arena in Ufa as grief-stricken fans abandoned the stadium.
“We will do our best to ensure that hockey in Yaroslavl does not die, and that it continues to live for the people that were on that plane,” said Russian Ice Hockey Federation President Vladislav Tretyak.
Medvedev has announced plans to take aging Soviet-built planes out of service starting next year. The short- and medium-range Yak-42 has been in service since 1980 and about 100 are still being used by Russian carriers.
In June, another Russian passenger jet crashed in the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people. The crash of that Tu-134 plane has been blamed on pilot error.
In other plane crashes involving sports teams, 75 Marshall University football players, coaches, fans and airplane crew died in a plane crash in Kentucky on Nov. 17, 1970, on the way home from a game. Twenty-six of the dead were players
Thirty members of the Uruguayan rugby club Old Christians were killed in a crash in the Andes in 1972.
The entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team died in a crash on their way to the 1961 world championships in Brussels.
In 1949, the Torino soccer team lost 18 players near Turin, Italy, while the Munich air crash of 1958 cost eight Manchester United players their lives.
Vladimir Isachenkov and Peter Leonard in Moscow, Steve Wilson in London and Graham Dunbar in Geneva ontributed to this report.
TUNOSHNA, Russia (AP)—A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team crashed just after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people and leaving two others critically injured, officials said. It was one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane crashed into a riverbank on the Volga River immediately after leaving an airport near the western city of Yaroslavl, 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow. It was sunny at the time.
The plane was carrying the Lokomotiv ice hockey team from Yaroslavl to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where the team was to play Thursday against Dinamo Minsk in the opening game of the season for the Kontinental Hockey League. The ministry said the plane had 45 people on board, including 37 passengers and eight crew.
Officials said Russian player Alexander Galimov survived the crash along with a crewmember.
A Czech embassy official said Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek were among those killed, and Latvian officials confirmed the death of Latvian defenseman Karlis Skrastins.
“This is the darkest day in the history of our sport. This is not only a Russian tragedy, the Lokomotiv roster included players and coaches from 10 nations,” said Rene Fasel, president of the international Ice Hockey Federation. “This is a terrible tragedy for the global ice hockey community.”
In recent years, Russia and the other former Soviet republics have had some of the world’s worst air traffic safety records. Experts blame the poor safety record on the age of the aircraft, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.
The plane that crashed was built in 1993 and belonged to a small Moscow-based Yak Service company.
Swarms of police and rescue crews rushed to Tunoshna, a picturesque village with a blue-domed church on the banks of the Volga River. One of the plane’s engines could be seen poking out of the river and a flotilla of boats combed the water for bodies. Russian rescue workers struggled to heft the bodies of large, strong athletes in stretchers up the muddy, steep riverbank.
One resident, Irina Pryakhova, saw the plane going down, then heard a loud bang and saw a plume of smoke.
“It was wobbling in flight, it was clear that something was wrong,” she said. “I saw them pulling bodies to the shore, some still in their seats with seatbelts on.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin immediately sent the nation’s transport minister to the site, 10 miles (15 kilometers) east of Yaroslavl. President Dmitry Medvedev also planned to tour the crash site.
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl is a leading force in Russian hockey and came third in the KHL last year. The team’s coach is Canadian Brad McCrimmon, who took over in May. He was most recently an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings, and played for years in the NHL for Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Hartford and Phoenix.
The Russian team also featured several top European players and former NHL stars, including Slovakian forward and national team captain Pavol Demitra, who played in the NHL for the St. Louis Blues and Vancouver Canucks.
Other top names on the team include Russian defenseman Ruslan Salei(notes and Swedish goalie Stefan Liv.
The KHL is an international club league that pits together teams from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Slovakia. Lokomotiv was a three-time Russian League champion in 1997, 2002-2003. It took bronze last season.
A cup match between hockey teams Salavat Yulaev and Atlant in the central Russian city of Ufa was called off midway after news of the crash was announced by Kontinental Hockey League head Alexander Medvedev. Russian television broadcast images of an empty arena in Ufa as grief-stricken fans abandoned the stadium.
“We will do our best to ensure that hockey in Yaroslavl does not die, and that it continues to live for the people that were on that plane,” said Russian Ice Hockey Federation President Vladislav Tretyak.
Medvedev has announced plans to take aging Soviet-built planes out of service starting next year. The short- and medium-range Yak-42 has been in service since 1980 and about 100 are still being used by Russian carriers.
In June, another Russian passenger jet crashed in the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people. The crash of that Tu-134 plane has been blamed on pilot error.
In other plane crashes involving sports teams, 75 Marshall University football players, coaches, fans and airplane crew died in a plane crash in Kentucky on Nov. 17, 1970, on the way home from a game. Twenty-six of the dead were players
Thirty members of the Uruguayan rugby club Old Christians were killed in a crash in the Andes in 1972.
The entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team died in a crash on their way to the 1961 world championships in Brussels.
In 1949, the Torino soccer team lost 18 players near Turin, Italy, while the Munich air crash of 1958 cost eight Manchester United players their lives.
Vladimir Isachenkov and Peter Leonard in Moscow, Steve Wilson in London and Graham Dunbar in Geneva ontributed to this report.
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And an Isles assistant coach.John Simon Ritchie wrote:And Flyer.SkyDog112046 wrote:Brad McCrimmon was the coach of the Russian team. He was a former Bruin and Red Wing.
Anybody who loves hockey knows a lot about a bunch of those guys, how sad.
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NeverSurrender wrote:And an Isles assistant coach.John Simon Ritchie wrote:And Flyer.SkyDog112046 wrote:Brad McCrimmon was the coach of the Russian team. He was a former Bruin and Red Wing.
Anybody who loves hockey knows a lot about a bunch of those guys, how sad.
Yep. Sad no matter where they were from.
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JSR,
With the exception of 9/11 I don't think I've ever been more bummed about people I don't know personally dying. I remember the Miracle On Ice and I was remembering how much I hated those guys, and now that I'm older it was so dumb to hate them for no reason at all. who knew all these years later I would be so sad about a bunch of them dying.
With the exception of 9/11 I don't think I've ever been more bummed about people I don't know personally dying. I remember the Miracle On Ice and I was remembering how much I hated those guys, and now that I'm older it was so dumb to hate them for no reason at all. who knew all these years later I would be so sad about a bunch of them dying.
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100%NeverSurrender wrote:JSR,
With the exception of 9/11 I don't think I've ever been more bummed about people I don't know personally dying. I remember the Miracle On Ice and I was remembering how much I hated those guys, and now that I'm older it was so dumb to hate them for no reason at all. who knew all these years later I would be so sad about a bunch of them dying.
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Bruins sign Marchand 2yrs/5mil.
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Fuck yesFacedown wrote:Bruins sign Marchand 2yrs/5mil.
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And he's a RFA. Chia keeps kicking ass. Marchand/Bergeron/Seguin is going to be a nice #2 line. Pouliot/Caron/Knight/Spooner fight for the last spot. Good times.LetUsPrey wrote:Fuck yesFacedown wrote:Bruins sign Marchand 2yrs/5mil.
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Pronger got the C in Philly. Things are as they should be.
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John Simon Ritchie wrote:Pronger got the C in Philly. Things are as they should be.
But his elbows will still be where they shouldn't be. ;o)
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John Simon Ritchie wrote:Pronger got the C in Philly. Things are as they should be.
I'm a Ranger fan on the outside looking in at that situation.
Question for you...
Do you think Pronger fucked up that locker room? I mean, I heard some some shit (not sure exactly anymore) but either Richards or Carter slept with someone's wife or something? Please advise.
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Jeff Carter supposedly banged Jeff Hartnell's wife. Richards and Carter were notorious drunken asshole, party boys in/around Philly/Jersey Shore. I'd rather have Pronger, who is pretty much the backbone and heart of The Flyers, in town than either of those guys. Their play in his absence is proof enough of how important he is to that team playing with any heart.Tommy wrote:John Simon Ritchie wrote:Pronger got the C in Philly. Things are as they should be.
I'm a Ranger fan on the outside looking in at that situation.
Question for you...
Do you think Pronger fucked up that locker room? I mean, I heard some some shit (not sure exactly anymore) but either Richards or Carter slept with someone's wife or something? Please advise.
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StapeNewsdayArthur Staple
Mark Streit whisked away from locker room for his later media session — he will be the new #Isles captain, announced in a few.
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Since there's not going to be a basketball season this year, I'm going to get back into the NHL. Though it is a bummer that the Avalanche suck.
