Hockey Trash Talk & BS thread

True, it's still that way but they want more $$$ and it's easier to make us pay than charge the players more. I get calls to sub for other teams every week, fortunately there's no sub fee for goalies......yet.

 

Are you serious? Gotta wonder how that might have played out....perhaps as simple as the then current chief being a hockey fan.

 

Here's how. And today I learned how the Blackhawks were named. It's after an Indian, but not like you might think:

 

You may not win a race but at least you can walk.

 

A brief history of the Blackhawks:

Franchise history
Founding
On May 1, 1926, the NHL awarded an expansion franchise for Chicago to a syndicate headed by former football star Huntington Hardwick of Boston. At the same meeting, Hardwick arranged the purchase of the players of the Portland Rosebuds of the Western Hockey League for $100,000 from WHL President Frank Patrick in a deal brokered byBoston Bruins' owner Charles Adams.[3] However, only one month later, Hardwick's group sold out to Chicago coffee tycoon Frederic McLaughlin.[4]

McLaughlin had been a commander with the 333rd Machine Gun Battalion of the 86th Infantry Division during World War I.[5] This Division was nicknamed the "Blackhawk Division" after a Native American of the Sauk nation, Black Hawk, who was a prominent figure in the history of Illinois.[5] McLaughlin named the new hockey team in honor of the military unit, making it one of many sports team names using Native Americans as icons. However, unlike the military division, the team's name was spelled in two words as the "Black Hawks" until 1986, when the club officially became the "Blackhawks," based on the spelling found in the original franchise documents.[6]

The Black Hawks began play in the 1926–27 season, along with new expansion franchises Detroit Cougars and New York Rangers. McLaughlin took a very active role in running the team despite having no background in the sport. McLaughlin hired Bill Tobin, a former goaltender who had played in the Western league, as his assistant, but directed the team himself. He was also very interested in promoting American hockey players, then very rare in professional hockey. Several of them, including Doc Romnes, Taffy Abel, Alex Levinsky, Mike Karakas and Cully Dahlstrom, become staples with the club, and under McLaughlin, the Black Hawks were the first NHL team with an all-American-born lineup.[5]

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Jagr makes it to #3 all time scoring, and I'm not talking about 19 year old brunettes

 

He's #2 in that account behind Leonardo DiCaprio.

 

Go Preds

 

Brandon Sutter and Radim Vrbata both out for the remainder of the season

 

Go Preds!!

 

Man , you can't swing a cat in here without hitting a Kings fan tonight

Wonder whats up

 

oh and

 

Nylander posts his first three point night ten games into his NHL tenure.

 

well camel pooo aleast i got to see kings game and thunder/lighting.