Ad blocker detected: Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors. Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker on our website.
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.
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.?
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.
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.
Can the Canucks just win a Cup within the next 5 years.
"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."
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.
Can the Canucks just win a Cup within the next 5 years.
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
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.
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.