I don't know how Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron doesn't wind up and just punch Vancouver Canucks
Saturday, June 04, 2011
Maxim Lapierre sticks his finger in Bergeron’s face
I don't know how Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron doesn't wind up and just punch Vancouver Canucks
Alex Burrows takes a bite out of the Bruins.
The Boston Bruins lost a game after leading 2-1 going into the third period. The Boston Bruins had won about 88% of their games when they lead after two periods during the regular season and had been perfect in the Stanley Cup playoffs to date, all good things must come to and end.
So fast forward to overtime; this was a textbook example on how not to play hockey, if you want to win the game, turnovers and players being out of position will kill a hockey team every time. But lets not forget that the bad effort started in the third period as the Boston Bruins tried to sit on a lead instead of attacking and they never really tried to stretch the lead. I believe in this instance that the Boston Bruins went to the well one too many times and it might have cost them a Stanley Cup.
Is this Karma?
Hollywood couldn't have scripted this ending any better for the home town Vancouver Canucks, forward Alex Burrows, who could have been suspended for biting Patrice Bergeron in game one, scored two of the games three goals including the game winning goal just 11 seconds into overtime. The game ending play was a comedy of errors starting with a brutal turner over by Andrew Ference at the blue line, followed up a non challenge of Burrows behind the Bruins net by Zedano Chara and finally bad positioning by Tim Thomas who was grossly out of position. If Thomas stays in the net there is a good chance that Tim Thomas stops the shot by Alex Burrows.
Bolland: Canucks Are ‘Like A Little Girl’
Image via WikipediaLooks like the War of Words is continuing between the Blackhawks and the Canucks; I also have to say that I agree with Chicago Blackhawks Center Dave Bolland and what he had to say about the Vancouver Canucks, “Typical, pulling hair and biting people. Sort of like a little girl.” CBS Chicago ---- “It does get pretty painful watching and seeing that team in it,” Bolland told Fred Mitchel, of the Chicago Tribune.
“It sucks seeing them there.”
The Canucks took the first game of the Stanley Cup Finals with a goal by Raffi Torres with 18.5 seconds remaining in regulation. Torres was the same player who delivered a hit to Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook’s head. It was a hit that kept Seabrook out of two games of the Blackhawks-Canucks first round series.
And the fact that Vancouver’s Alex Burrows appeared to bite the finger of Bruins center Patrice Bergeron in the first period didn’t take Bolland by surprise.
“Typical, pulling hair and biting people. Sort of like a little girl,” Bolland said. “But things happen during games. Stuff like that isn’t meant for hockey. So some of those things have to be taken care of.”
Drew Stafford to get paid...
Image by bridgetds via FlickrDrew Stafford gets fat contract, Stafford is going to make 4 million dollars a year. With that pay increase Stafford is going to have add pressure to perform from the Buffalo fan base. Buffalo Sabres; NHL.COM --- Drew Stafford Buffalo Sabres GM Darcy Regier announced today the Sabres have agreed to terms with forward Drew Stafford, who was set to become a Restricted Free Agent on July 1 on a multi-year contract.
“It was important for us to get Drew locked up,” said Regier. “What we saw from Drew this season is exactly what we envisioned when we drafted him. Drew will continue to be an important part of our team in the coming years.”
Stafford (10/30/1985, 6’2”, 214 lbs.) is coming off a 2010-11 season that saw him finish second on the team with a career-high 31 goals in 62 games, including a league-best four hat tricks. The 25-year-old also posted career-highs in both points (52) and power play goals (11). In five seasons with Buffalo, Stafford has 196 points (94+102) in 317 career games.
Stafford was Buffalo’s first-round selection (13th overall) in the 2004 Entry Draft, and played three years at the University of North Dakota.
Commissioner promises harsher penalties for head hits - "Next Year."
Image via WikipediaKey word is next year... I guess we will have have more of the same during the Stanley Cup Finals. VANCOUVER (Reuters) - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was talking tough Wednesday, promising harsher penalties for violence "next season"and introducing the league's new chief disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan.
Bettman used his state of the league address ahead of Game One of the Stanley Cup final between the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins to announce that Shanahan would be taking over the most thankless job in ice hockey.
A tough as nails former-player, Shanahan replaces Colin Campbell, who had been in charge of dispensing NHL supplemental discipline for 13 years but had come under increasing criticism for what was viewed as wildly inconsistent punishment.
The league continues to struggle to find a balance between player safety and removing the physical component of the game, which is at the heart of the sport and its appeal.
Concussions and the hits that cause them have become the hot button issue in sport this year, particularly in the NHL, and Campbell's uneven suspensions created the perception the league was unconcerned, sparking an uproar among fans and sponsors.
Bettman said Campbell had approached him and suggested a change.
"Collie and I believe it is time to take a fresh look at the standards that we use and if we are going to move to harsher discipline that change needs to send a clear message and we think it would probably be best to do it on a clean slate," Bettman told reporters.
Call the Canucks a Whambulance
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- The Vancouver Canucks were not surprised by Boston goalie Tim Thomas' outstanding play Wednesday night in the opener of the Stanley Cup final.
They simply took issue with where Thomas played.
Coach Alain Vigneault joined several Canucks in questioning Thomas' aggressive positioning well outside his crease, complaining specifically about a tripping penalty to Alex Burrows for bumping Thomas outside the blue paint.
But, as Thomas and Bruins coach Claude Julien pointed out ahead of Game 2 tonight, the goalie's right to stop the puck unimpeded is not limited to the crease.
"I have the right to go anywhere there's open ice," said Thomas, who made 33 saves -- many spectacular -- before Raffi Torres scored Game 1's only goal with 18.5 seconds to play.
"If I'm set, I have a right to that ice. If I'm out of the paint and I'm set, I also have the right of way to get back to the crease. That's the way I understand it."
There's no doubting Thomas, who joined Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo as a finalist for the Vezina Trophy as the league's top goalie, is more aggressive than most. He relies on his ability to read and react to plays from his skates, rather than playing the more passive, on-the-knees butterfly style common today.
Friday, June 03, 2011
NESN; Alex Burrows Decision Is Latest Example of NHL Insulting Fans' Intelligence With Dishonest Explanations
I will say that I concur with Michael Hurley from NESN and his assessment, the NHL looks like a bunch of bumbling buffoons when they issues statements like this.We saw the video, and one can deduced that Vancouver Canucks
Michael Hurley; NESN ---This isn't a cry of injustice, a plea for a suspension or anything of the sort. Alex Burrows wasn't suspended by the NHL, and he probably didn't deserve to be. At this point of the year, in the Stanley Cup Final, biting a finger probably isn't enough to keep you off the ice for 60 minutes, and definitely not for 120 minutes.
That's what the folks at the NHL think, and you know what? That's fine. The problem is that they're not telling you that. They're telling you that there was "no conclusive evidence" to prove there was any biting. They're telling you that those videos you've seen, and the photos you've looked at -- they don't exist. They're basically telling you that you're an idiot.
They're insulting your intelligence.
There was conclusive evidence. We saw it. We saw Burrows chomp down on Bergeron's finger the same way I bite down on my morning apple (just kidding, I rarely eat fruit). If Mike Murphy, whose decision it was to hold off on supplemental discipline, really wanted more evidence, he'd go look at Bergeron's finger. It's got teeth marks in it.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Bruins have a free pass; No supplemental discipline for Burrows
Image via WikipediaFor the self congratulatory hockey pundits that had said there is a conspiracy for the Boston Bruins because Colin Campbell’s son Greg Campbell plays for the Boston Bruins; that conspiracy has been proven to be unfounded and has been shot full of holes to boot. Vancouver Canucks "hack" Alex Burrows will not be suspended for biting Patrice Bergeron. VANCOUVER -- National Hockey League Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations Mike Murphy today announced that there will be no supplemental discipline on Vancouver Canucks forward Alex Burrows for an alleged incident in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.
"After reviewing the incident, including speaking with the on-ice officials, I can find no conclusive evidence that Alex Burrows intentionally bit the finger of Patrice Bergeron," Murphy's statement
Canucks should change their names to the cannibals.
I have said in the past that the Vancouver Canucks are one of the most unlikable teams in the NHL (next to the Montreal Canadians and their fans); I stand by that observation after watching last night’s on ice antics by the Vancouver Canucks… I mean seriously, what a bunch of hacks, they are a bunch diving ballerinas, dancing and flailing up and down the ice. The Sedin sisters and Alex Burrows are the worst of the offenders. From are you kidding me variety; Alex Burrows are you three years old? Seriously, biting another player on the ice. Alex Burrows should be suspended by the NHL for this bush league move. According to Nick Kypreos from Sportsnet.ca, he seems to think that Alex “the hack” Burrows won’t get suspended by the NHL.
VANCOUVER (AP)---- Boston forward Patrice Bergeron wasn't surprised how quickly the Stanley Cup finals turned nasty, but he was shocked to feel Canucks counterpart Alex Burrows chomp down on the tip of his finger.
Burrows denied it, but could still face discipline from the NHL after replays appeared to show him bite Bergeron's finger during a melee at the end of the first period of Vancouver's 1-0 victory in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals on Wednesday night.
''I don't mind rough play and scrums at the end, as long as it's just pushing and shoving and all that,'' Bergeron said. ''But biting? I mean come on.''
In a game with an unexpected amount of edge between teams that meet once a season, Burrows and Bergeron were in the middle of a big scrum behind the Boston net at the end of the first period. That's when Bergeron says Burrows bit down as he reached over a linesman to put his glove in Burrows' face.
''Oh yeah, he did. He cut me a little bit on my finger,'' said Bergeron, whose right index finger was wrapped in a small bandage. ''One of his teeth caught under my nail. We just disinfected it and I'm going to take some antibiotics just to make sure. Obviously, it's not that bad but I don't want to take any risks.''
Bergeron, who played mostly against the Canucks' top line, went straight to the referees after holding up his injured finger.
''They didn't see it,'' Bergeron said. ''We were speaking French, me and (Burrows), and I told him, 'Why did you do that?' That linesmen speaks French, and his explanation was he said that I put my finger in his mouth and he had to do it. I'll leave it at that, but I'm sure the league is going to look at it.''
Burrows, who received a double minor for roughing – Bergeron only got one minor penalty for roughing – denied biting Bergeron.
''I don't think so,'' Burrows said. ''He had his fingers in my mouth, but I don't think I bit him. He put his hand up and put it in my face and his fingers in my mouth and that's what happened.''
Asked if he expected to be suspended, Burrows glared and said, ''next question.''
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Henrik Sedin dive
Greg Louganis would be proud of the Vancouver Canucks
Vancouver Canucks "hack" Alex Burrows bites Patrice Bergeron
If the league doesn't suspend Vancouver Canucks hack Alex Burrows for this classless act on Boston Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron the NHL has no cojones, this is unacceptable behavior and NHL hockey players are men and they should be biting people. Just for the record ; former Senators hack Jarkko Ruutu was given a two game suspension for biting AndrewPeters.
Stanley Cup Preview
Image by Getty Images via @daylife 2011 STANLEY CUP PREVIEWKeys for Vancouver: the sedin twins finally stepped their game up in the semis vs the sharks and they are going to be needed big time for them to win the cup. the play of ryan kesler in these playoffs has been amazing you could say he is the best two-way forward in the league. kevin bieska stepped up big time as well vs sharks and he showed some offensive skills even though he's known more for his defensive skills. they are going to need to involve thier defenseman again in this series because they will want to get shots from the point that can be tipped past thomas off deflections because that has been working well for them throughout the playoffs.
PLAYERS TO WATCH: Ryan Kesler and Alexander Burrows
Keys for Boston: the B's are going to need their first line of horton, Lucic, and krecji to keep on rolling for them to win this stanley cup. I believe that chara will be a big problem for the sedins and the pairing of him and seidenberg has been the best D pairing in the playoffs. they also need to clear the front of the net for tim thomas, who has been the best goalie in the playoffs so far and he made the save of the year on that purcell shot in the last series vs Tampa Bay. what more can you say about Horton in these playoffs? two game 7 winners so far and i believe that he is hungry for that stanley cup after all those losing years as a panther. the b's need to continue to activate their defensman in the offensive zone and let them rip shots from the point and let their big men like ryder and lucic get deflections and rebounds out front.
Players TO WATCH: Zdeno Chara and Milan Lucic
Prediction: I believe that the Boston Bruins will win in 7 games because of the play of tim thomas and Chara who have been the best goalie and defenseman in these playoffs. it should be an epic series and i don't think the sedin twins and crew will go down easily.
Tin foil hats are coming out in Vancouver!!! More whining about the officials…
Tony Gallagher; The Providence --- We're going to ask this question now, once and for all and then try to hold our peace until the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs. We can't say forever hold our peace, but for a while at least.First off; this past season Mike Murphy has dealt with the Boston Bruins during their supplemental discipline hearings because Greg Campbell is the son of Colin Campbell and he plays for the Boston Bruins. Personally, I think this is just more of the Vancouver Canucks fans, media and their front office staff trying to get the upper hand on the Boston Bruins. The comments to this article are equally interesting as well… EDIT: It’s being reported that Colin Campbell is resigning as NHL disciplinarian and being replaced by Brendan Shanahan.
Straight up, can the Vancouver Canucks get a fair shake with the officiating in the final? Consider Gregory Campbell plays for the Boston Bruins and his father Colin Campbell is senior vice-president in charge of hockey operations for the NHL. What father doesn't want to have his son's name on the Stanley Cup? And of course what is so stunning about this is that the NHL fails to perceive any conflict of interest whatsoever, even though there is no shortage of lawyers running about the head offices in New York. At least that's the NHL claim.
During the season the biggest problems arose on supplementary discipline, but that's not the consideration here. After all, you only get a one-game suspension for any transgression during the playoffs, and in most cases there are no suspensions whatsoever. You'd have to punch a fan in the face repeatedly to get two or more, so barring some strange circumstances this is not the issue.
If Raffi Torres ran over Patrice Bergeron, for example, Campbell would not make a decision on supplementary discipline because the Bruins are involved. Instead, his best friend Mike Murphy with whom he works every day would make the decision, if that makes you feel any better. Of course, that's a total joke in it's own right as well, but it's not likely to be an issue.
The problem is the on-ice officials. They are appointed by a department for which Campbell has responsibility and the entire progress of their careers is totally controlled by these people. They decide when the officials work, how much they work and as such how much they get paid.
For each round in the playoffs a referee works, he gets an extra $18,000 over and above his yearly salary. For a linesman it's $12,000. So if you please the powers that be, you work lots. If you don't please them for whatever reason, you don't get to work in the playoffs. The officials working the final are the guys the league thinks are the best and as we've seen from the exchange of leaked memos a while back, Campbell can often be involved in those discussions.
And make no mistake, we're not talking about any communication between these respective parties at any time. There's no conspiracy. The officials know what their bosses need and know how to please them.
Now any official who happens to displease the powers for whatever reason—serious mistakes we'd like to believe—could find himself not working the final all of a sudden (although that wouldn't affect his pay this year) and his employment considerations for the future would be open to question. Maybe he gets no playoff work the following year. Maybe it could be so serious that his contract might be re-considered in the future. The bottom line is these guys in the hockey operations department—of which one is the father of one of the games' participants-- control every aspect of an official's employment.
No, no conflict of interest here.
Rocco Grimaldi: A 'huge' threat for Team USA
Mike G. Morreale - NHL.com Staff Writer --- After having just completed his fourth of 12 team interviews in his initial day at the NHL Scouting Combine, had a satisfied look on his face.
Despite being listed as the smallest player invited to the Combine at 5-foot-6, 163 pounds, Grimaldi has certainly earned the reputation as a big-game performer. Why else would all 30 NHL teams request an interview with the leading scorer for the U.S. National Team Development Program in 2010-11.
"It's great to always be the underdog and have people doubt you," Grimaldi told NHL.com. "But I think I could also be a role model for kids my size, not even in hockey, but in general. I could be a really good example for them on how I go about my business, not caring about what people say, and how I live my life. I'm always thinking about the next generation under me and trying to help them out as well."
Grimaldi was asked if those scouts from the Tampa Bay Lightning referred to Martin St. Louis at some point during their discussion.
"They said one of their best players is St. Louis, he's the leader of that group and we don't care about size," Grimaldi said. "Our best player is the smallest guy on the ice and we love small guys and that was a cool thing to hear. That motivates me because playing in the NHL has always been my dream. So whatever it takes to achieve it ..."
Grimaldi is certainly on that path after striking for a team-leading 34 goals, 62 points, 13 power-play goals, and five game-winners in 50 games for the USNTDP this season.
"He's definitely a character kid and great guy," USNTDP goalie John Gibson said. "He's small, but probably has the biggest heart on the team."
"He was a dynamic guy, an outstanding skater, quick and around the puck all the time," Central Scouting's Chris Edwards told NHL.com. "He wasn't scared to get involved in battles and go to the net."
Grimaldi played a big part of the gold medal-winning Team USA in the 2010 Under-18 World Championship in Belarus, tying for the team lead with 10 points in seven games. He'd connect for 2 goals, 8 points and a plus-5 rating in another gold-medal winning effort at the 2011 U-18 World Championship in Germany.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Winnipeg press conference with Gary Bettman
Wow!!! I can’t be the only one that thinks the NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is a smug little pompous jerk? When I watch Gary Bettman talk in press conferences on television or listen to him speak on XM radio; Bettman reminds me of one of the many empty suits that make up Washington, D.C., arrogant, condescending, smug, gets short with people… Frankly I think Bettman is a jerk the way he conducts himself. I would have loved to hook up a lie detector during his press conference today.
Related articles
- Bettman say MTS Centre must sell out for success (ctv.ca)
- Thrashers sale, move to Winnipeg decision announced (aol.sportingnews.com)
- NHL back in Winnipeg (macleans.ca)
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The pressure is on the Canucks to win.
Image via WikipediaIf you haven't seen this article by Ian Mendes it's worth a look and I do think the author is right, the pressure in all on the Vancouver Canucks and not the Boston Bruins because the Canucks are the "lone" remaining Canadian team all the other NHL teams from Canada have been eliminated. Ian Mendes; Sportsnet.ca ---- It didn't matter that his Lightning team had finished first in the Eastern Conference with 106 points, while the Flames were the sixth seed from the Western Conference with just 94 points. The American-born coach masterfully changed the dynamics of the series, by painting his club as the underdog inside the dressing room.While it’s no mystery that the Vancouver Canucks are a good hockey team, however, I don’t think the Canucks can just show up and expect to win this series. Since the series between the Lightning and Bruins ended in Boston, I have read a lot of clueless comments by fans and media types that think the Vancouver Canucks are just going to roll over the Boston Bruins. I am going to say Bruins win this series in 6 games.
"It was something we tried to perpetuate in Tampa. John Tortorella, at the beginning of that series, he kept putting the pressure on Calgary," explains Jay Feaster, who was the general manager of the Lightning at the time.
"He constantly talked to our team there and said 'Look at the pressure on them. All of Canada wants them to win and needs them to win. There's no pressure on us.' There is no question that is part of the strategy Torts employed in 2004."
I had a chance to speak with Feaster a few months ago. And I was fascinated by the fact that American teams played the pressure card when taking on Canadian opponents in the playoffs.
Vincent Lecavalier remembers being inside the dressing room and hearing Tortorella's words. He and his teammates never felt the pressure -- even when the Flames took a 3-2 series lead with Game 6 at the Saddledome in Calgary. There was never a sense of panic for the Lightning because they always felt relaxed and confident.
"There was a lot of hype in Canada with Calgary in the Stanley Cup Final. The whole country is talking about it and wanting to win," remembers Lecavalier. "There was a lot of pressure on them. With Tampa being a smaller market, the pressure actually was more on them. It made it easier for us to breathe, I guess."
Sitting across from Lecavalier in that Lightning locker room was Cory Stillman, an underrated forward who scored 80 points for Tampa Bay in their championship season. After winning the Stanley Cup with the Lightning, Stillman signed a free agent contract with the Carolina Hurricanes.
In the spring of 2006, Stillman once again found himself in the same situation: playing for a southern American team against a Canadian opponent in the Stanley Cup Final.
So when his Hurricanes faced the Edmonton Oilers, Stillman knew exactly which team was going to face the pressure, even though his team won their division with 112 points and the Oilers squeaked into the post-season.
"People in the southern states cheer for their team, but in Canada, they cheer for their team and when they're out, they cheer for the next Canadian team. And when we played against Calgary and we played against Edmonton, it was Canada's team. And they do feel that pressure that's talked about," says Stillman.
Thrashers, Atlanta were never given a chance
Image via Wikipedia Here is an interesting perspective from Atlanta. Jeff Schultz; AJC.COM --- This is how it ends: With the weasel of a commissioner not stepping foot in the city, with another season passing without a playoff game, with a lying ownership group maintaining it did all it could to save a franchise that in reality it spent most of seven years wrecking.
Atlanta has lost an NHL expansion team to a Canadian outpost for the second time. The Thrashers are going to Winnipeg just like the Flames went to Calgary in 1980. A noon press conference today is expected to make this long, slow death official.
This isn’t about the fans or the market or certainly Gary Bettman’s fictional “covenant” with fans, which I believe he left in the same sock drawer with his conscience. It’s about greed and abandonment, plain and simple. It’s about a disingenuous ownership group, which had long lost any semblance of credibility, serving up fans swill and gruel and then wondering why the turnstiles sleep at night.
They’ll tell you they care. They don’t. They’re walking away with a fat check. While you mourn the loss of a franchise, they’re waving goodbye with one middle finger.
The NHL is leaving a city that never really was given a chance. It’s going back to a city that it left 15 years ago and that has grown by about 60,000 people and a couple of doughnut shops since. They will be discussing this decision one day at business schools, right after the sections on Charles Ponzi and Enron.
Winnipeg group schedules news conference to announce NHL franchise acquisition
WINNIPEG - The waiting is over for Winnipeg hockey fans.
True North Sports and Entertainment has scheduled a news conference for noon ET at Winnipeg's MTS Centre to make "a significant community announcement."
True North has been in negotiations with the owners of the Atlanta Thrashers to buy the NHL team and move it to Winnipeg.
Winnipeg has been without NHL hockey since the Jets moved to Phoenix in 1996.
Atlanta is saying goodbye to an NHL franchise for the second time. The Flames moved from Atlanta to Calgary in 1980.
The NHL was unable to find an owner who wants to keep the team in Atlanta.
The MTS Centre has been home to the American Hockey league's Manitoba Moose. Both the team and arena are owned by True North, whose ownership includes Canadian billionaire David Thomson.
True North Sports was founded by chairman Mark Chipman.
Chipman is president and chief executive of Winnipeg-based Megill Stephenson Co. Ltd. and director of the Hockey Canada Foundation.
Opened in 2004 with the Moose, the farm team for the NHL's Vancouver Canucks, as its anchor tenant, the 15,000-seat MTS Centre cost $133.5 million to build, including $40.5 million in public money.
The arena is small by NHL standards with 15,015 seats _ that's 1,159 fewer than Nassau Coliseum, where the New York Islanders play.
Atlanta finished 25th in the 30-team league with a 34-36-12 record and missed the playoffs last season.
It's been a long wait for Winnipeg fans.
Jet diehards kept the spirit of the team alive on websites and chatrooms, lobbying for a team and keeping track of Jets alumni like Bobby Hull, Thomas Steen and Dale Hawerchuk.
Earlier this year it appeared Winnipeg was about to get its own franchise back, but last-minute subsidies and deal-making kept the red-ink-stained Coyotes in Arizona
But just as the Coyote door closed, the Thrasher one opened.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Announcement coming soon?
It looks like the Thrasher are coming to Winnipeg and we will should have an announcement soon, might even be on Tuesday. For all of the news related to the NHL’s return to Winnipeg stop by our friends at the Illegal Curve for all of the news.
Links to the Story
Thrashers-to-Winnipeg deal draws closer [AJC.COM]
Toews likes NHL in Manitoba [CBC.CA]
Cool your Jets - root for 'Canada's Team'No love for Canucks - it's all 'B.C. sucks' [Winnipeg Free Press]
TSN.CA --- The Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg situation has narrowed to a point where it's quite possible there could be an announcement as early as Tuesday.
Lawyers on the Winnipeg side have signed off on the deal and the Atlanta legal team is doing their due diligence today. If they sign off on the deal, the sale will go through, pending league approval.
If there is no announcement Tuesday, the next likely target would be Thursday.
Once an agreement has been reached, True North is expected to launch a season ticket drive.
Links to the Story
Thrashers-to-Winnipeg deal draws closer [AJC.COM]
Toews likes NHL in Manitoba [CBC.CA]
Cool your Jets - root for 'Canada's Team'No love for Canucks - it's all 'B.C. sucks' [Winnipeg Free Press]
The Bruins are going to the Stanley Cup Finals...
As a Boston Bruins fan, I have to say that this is one of the most memorable seasons in a very long time, it had been a couple of decades of mediocrity for the Boston Bruins as they had not been in the Stanley Cup Finals since the 1990 season when they lost to the Edmonton Oilers in 5 games… Former Edmonton Oilers’ forward Craig Simpson (father of current Fighting Sioux defenseman Dillon Simpson) scored the game winning goal for the Edmonton Oilers to clinch the Stanley Cup against the Boston Bruins.
• Game 1: Wednesday, June 1 at 7 p.m. Boston Bruins at Vancouver Canucks. NBC, CBC, RDS
• Game 2: Saturday, June 4 at 7 p.m. Boston Bruins at Vancouver Canucks. NBC, CBC, RDS
• Game 3: Monday, June 6 at 7 p.m. Vancouver Canucks at Boston Bruins. Versus, CBC RDS
• Game 4: Wednesday, June at 7 p.m. Vancouver Canucks at Boston Bruins. Versus, CBC RDS
• Game 5: Friday, June 10 at 7 p.m. Boston Bruins at Vancouver Canucks* NBC, CBC, RDS
• Game 6: Monday, June 13 at 7 p.m. Vancouver Canucks at Boston Bruins* NBC, CBC, RDS
• Game 7: Wednesday, June 15 at 7 p.m Boston Bruins at Vancouver Canucks* NBC, CBC, RDS
* – if necessary
In looking at the schedule for the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals there is another long layoff between games one and two.
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