All things Wayne Gretzky and Hockey
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Metropolitan Division: Pacific Division:
It’s that time in the season where it’s getting very real for these teams across the league & you can learn more of what’s currently the climate overall here:
Portrait of Edmonton Oilers Wayne Gretzky during a photo shoot on the ice.
Edmonton, Canada 1984
Wayne Gretzky doesn’t think he would have been as great of a hockey player in the 1950s.
He’s not being humble. More like fearful.
Yes, the greatest goal scorer who ever played the game would no doubt have had an easier time putting the puck past goalies who didn’t wear masks and rarely left their feet to make a save. But that’s assuming he could make it up the ice in one piece.
“The (Gordie) Howes and (Maurice) Richards typically had to fight for themselves,” Gretzky said in a phone interview. “That was the game back then. When you’re 150 pounds, that would have been more difficult for me. I’m always the first guy to sit here and say I came around at the right time. It was a different game.”
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Enjoy some good ol trash talking & fights in the NHL.
Winnipeg Jets vs Los Angeles Kings – November 22, 2017 | Game Highlights | NHL 2017/18
NHL tonight. Hockey tonight. NHL game tonight.
Listen and watch Gabe Morencey’s NBA, NHL and College Basketball Picks from Nov 22nd 2017 live on Game Time Decisions on FantasySports Network.
We have a fun fight for the ages in this match for the NHL Stanley Cup between the Pittsburgh Penguins & the Nashville Predators.
Unfortunately the score 6-0 was even worse for the Predators. Next up Game 6 Sunday 6-12-17 in Nashville. Can the reigning champion Penguins finally knock these guys out in their house?
Ask the great 2009 Detroit Red Wings about it.
A nice recap with video and some article pieces along with the 2016 review in NHL hockey via Sports Net Canada:
It was a wild year in the NHL and as much excitement as there is for the future of the game with plenty of young and exciting talent coming in, 2016 also gave us a few moments to ponder the past.
Through the year, the hockey world lost a legend, celebrated another and witnessed one of the craziest 23 minutes in the history of the NHL, if not all sports.
Undoubtedly when coming up with a year-end top 10, a few noteworthy stories had to be left out that should get a mention:
Recently, the firing of Gerard Gallant as head coach in Florida was probably the most controversial coach dismissal ever and left Don Cherry labeling it the “worst” in NHL history.
The International Olympic Committee and hockey’s governing body will have to make concessions before the NHL sends the world’s best players to the Winter Games in South Korea next year, commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday.
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Big Question: Want to play in the Olympics?
We asked the players if they wanted to take part in the Winter Games, and nothing rings hollow about their answers.
Fehr: NHL players won’t concede on Olympics
Locked in a stalemate over NHL participation in the next Winter Olympics, NHLPA chief Donald Fehr told ESPN that the league’s players won’t concede.
“As things stand today, you should assume we’re not going,” he said.
Bettman made it clear at a breakfast with Chicago business leaders that league owners don’t want to stop their season for three weeks again and put their stars at risk of injury without what they consider a tangible return.
The reluctance is not new, but the NHL has participated in every Winter Olympics since 1998….
