Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

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mr perfect wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:38 am
5thhorseman wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:31 pm With 2 channels to watch while growing up in northern BC, it was the Habs or Leaves on the tube every Saturday. I hated the Habs. My brother thus chose the Habs to spite me. Asshole.

Mike Palmateer, Darryl Sittler, Lanny McDonald, Borje Salming & Ian Turnbull for me too.
5HM, where in northern BC did you grow up with 2 channels to watch? Just curious.
Hey Mr. P. I actually grew up just down the road from you in Kitimat. Dad bought our first TV in 1976 to watch the Olympics. We just had CBC and CTV I recall, but that was good enough for me as I got to watch Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner and HNIC every Saturday afternoon,
I dream of Jeannie at lunchtime, and Thames' The Tomorrow People Saturday mornings. We left Kitimat in 79 for the 5-channel oasis of Kelowna.
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5thhorseman wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 7:54 am
mr perfect wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:38 am
5thhorseman wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:31 pm With 2 channels to watch while growing up in northern BC, it was the Habs or Leaves on the tube every Saturday. I hated the Habs. My brother thus chose the Habs to spite me. Asshole.

Mike Palmateer, Darryl Sittler, Lanny McDonald, Borje Salming & Ian Turnbull for me too.
5HM, where in northern BC did you grow up with 2 channels to watch? Just curious.
Hey Mr. P. I actually grew up just down the road from you in Kitimat. Dad bought our first TV in 1976 to watch the Olympics. We just had CBC and CTV I recall, but that was good enough for me as I got to watch Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner and HNIC every Saturday afternoon,
I dream of Jeannie at lunchtime, and Thames' The Tomorrow People Saturday mornings. We left Kitimat in 79 for the 5-channel oasis of Kelowna.
Jesus, how many people on this board, grew up, or now live, in NW B.C.?
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I think the Chicago Blackhawks organization were hoping these sexual assaults (and cover up) of it's two former players by former team video coach Brad Aldrich would blow over....but it's not, this story seems to be getting bigger.
The alleged sexual assault of two former Chicago Blackhawks players was “an open secret” among staff both within and outside the team’s hockey department, a former team marketing official said in an interview with TSN.

https://www.tsn.ca/alleged-assaults-of- ... -1.1659115
The official said he was told by Blackhawks assistant trainer Jeff Thomas during the summer of 2010 that then-team video coach Brad Aldrich had allegedly sexually assaulted two players. The official asked for anonymity because he still works in the pro hockey industry and fears repercussions from the National Hockey League.

“Brad would routinely befriend young interns and invite them to his apartment in Chicago to watch March Madness basketball and other sports,” the marketing official said. “I was told to steer clear of him because he had tried something at his apartment on a few players. This was not something that only a few people knew about. The entire training staff, a lot of people knew...This was an open secret.

The allegations against the Blackhawks went public in May after a former player filed a lawsuit in Chicago against the franchise. That unnamed player, identified as “John Doe (1)” in court documents, alleges that he reported the abuse to the team and that it was covered up. The player also alleges that Aldrich threatened him via text messages and other communications against making a complaint.

A second lawsuit filed in May by a former Michigan high school hockey player, identified in court documents as “John Doe (2)” alleges the Blackhawks covered up the abuse of two players and gave Aldrich a letter of reference when he left the team in the summer of 2010. That letter gave him the opportunity to go on and find other victims, the lawsuit alleges.

Aldrich was convicted of abusing a then-17-year-old hockey player in Houghton, Mich., in 2013. A year earlier, Aldrich resigned from his position as director of hockey operations at Miami University on Nov. 27, 2012, “under suspicion of unwanted touching of a male adult,” the university’s attorney told police, according to police records obtained by TSN.
Brad Aldrich is now a registered sex offender.

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From the press release:

"Dave Hakstol makes franchise history, named Kraken head coach on June 24, 2021. Joins NHL's 32nd team after deep search by GM Ron Francis, who sought leader with NHL head coach experience, plus emphatically checks boxes for leadership, character and player development: "Dave is confident, strong on technical aspects of playing three-zone game."
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rats19 wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:07 am From the press release:

"Dave Hakstol makes franchise history, named Kraken head coach on June 24, 2021. Joins NHL's 32nd team after deep search by GM Ron Francis, who sought leader with NHL head coach experience, plus emphatically checks boxes for leadership, character and player development: "Dave is confident, strong on technical aspects of playing three-zone game."
I thought for sure it would have been Rick Tocchet.
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rats19 wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:07 am From the press release:

"Dave Hakstol makes franchise history, named Kraken head coach on June 24, 2021. Joins NHL's 32nd team after deep search by GM Ron Francis, who sought leader with NHL head coach experience, plus emphatically checks boxes for leadership, character and player development: "Dave is confident, strong on technical aspects of playing three-zone game."
Complete with pomp & circumstance and an interview LINK

https://twitter.com/SeattleKraken/statu ... 3022882828
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rats19 wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:07 am From the press release:

"Dave Hakstol makes franchise history, named Kraken head coach on June 24, 2021. Joins NHL's 32nd team after deep search by GM Ron Francis, who sought leader with NHL head coach experience, plus emphatically checks boxes for leadership, character and player development: "Dave is confident, strong on technical aspects of playing three-zone game."
Well I guess The Ghost and Oshie are no brainer Kraken now.
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https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1408158033172119553
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ESPN signs 6x Stanley Cup Champion Mark Messier to a multi-year deal

The 15x NHL All-Star will serve as an #NHL studio analyst for the 2021-22 season


1:20 PM · Jun 24, 2021
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Strangelove wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:03 pm https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1408158033172119553
ESPN PR
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ESPN signs 6x Stanley Cup Champion Mark Messier to a multi-year deal

The 15x NHL All-Star will serve as an #NHL studio analyst for the 2021-22 season


1:20 PM · Jun 24, 2021
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Dont encourage him! He'll just take it out on tomorrow nights hitchhikers
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Cousin Strawberry wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:24 pm
Strangelove wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:03 pm https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1408158033172119553
ESPN PR
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ESPN signs 6x Stanley Cup Champion Mark Messier to a multi-year deal

The 15x NHL All-Star will serve as an #NHL studio analyst for the 2021-22 season


1:20 PM · Jun 24, 2021
Thoughts Corn?
Dont encourage him! He'll just take it out on tomorrow nights hitchhikers
Better them than us.

I figured I'd better warn Corny before he tunes in one night and throws a brick through his TV.
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Strangelove wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 4:51 pm
Cousin Strawberry wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:24 pm
Strangelove wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:03 pm https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1408158033172119553
ESPN PR
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ESPN signs 6x Stanley Cup Champion Mark Messier to a multi-year deal

The 15x NHL All-Star will serve as an #NHL studio analyst for the 2021-22 season


1:20 PM · Jun 24, 2021
Thoughts Corn?
Dont encourage him! He'll just take it out on tomorrow nights hitchhikers
Better them than us.

I figured I'd better warn Corny before he tunes in one night and throws a brick through his TV.
Very thoughtful of you Doc :thumbs:
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ESPN SUCKS!

That didn’t take long. I figured they would have broadcast at least one game before they pissed me right off. :hmmm:
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5thhorseman wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:31 pm Dad bought our first TV in 1976 to watch the Olympics. We just had CBC and CTV I recall, but that was good enough for me as I got to watch Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner and HNIC every Saturday….
I spent a couple years in two-channel Smithers. Those Olympics were awesome.

I learned how to skate and honed my arms-through-the-backwards-coat road-hockey goalie technique there. But I was most well-known for making horribly lop-sided hockey card swaps involving any Canuck. Things like Guy Lafleur and Brad Park for Bob Manno.
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Strangelove wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:03 pm https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1408158033172119553
ESPN PR
@ESPNPR

ESPN signs 6x Stanley Cup Champion Mark Messier to a multi-year deal

The 15x NHL All-Star will serve as an #NHL studio analyst for the 2021-22 season


1:20 PM · Jun 24, 2021
Thoughts Corn?

Thanks for not asking me doc. I am not sure if I could have restrained a full page rant on this guy.....
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Strangelove wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:03 pm https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1408158033172119553
ESPN PR
@ESPNPR

ESPN signs 6x Stanley Cup Champion mark messier to a multi-year deal

The 15x NHL All-Star will serve as an #NHL studio analyst for the 2021-22 season


1:20 PM · Jun 24, 2021
Thoughts Corn?
How incredibly fucking typical....

The Good News: ESPN+ will have a shit load of games / I have ESPN+ as part of the Disney package
The Bad News: The games will be unwatchable

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