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2011-2012 NHL Thread

Potvin29 said:
Asham getting a lot of heat for his post-fight taunt on an obviously in distress Beagle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA2cPIoLryU

Kinda hard to watch actually.
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I don't know, I mean it's not like Asham was directly taunting Beagle. And by that I mean he wasn't doing those signs over his body as he laid on the ice. Asham won a fight in a close game against a big rival and promptly skated away to celebrate in front of the screaming home crowd. He had no idea that Beagle was having difficulties getting up. It's fine if people criticize Asham for the taunt in general, but I don't think it's fair to say it was a problem because of Beagle's condition.

With that said, Asham himself condoned his actions:

?I was into the game; it was uncalled for,? Asham, an experienced NHL fighter, told reporters after the game. ?Classless on my part, you know, I think those guys over there know that I?m not the kind of guy to be going off. It was a big game; I wanted to get my bench going, classless move on my part.?
 
Potvin29 said:
Asham getting a lot of heat for his post-fight taunt on an obviously in distress Beagle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA2cPIoLryU

Kinda hard to watch actually.
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i think people are overreacting. other than coming off as being cocky, nothing to it really.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Potvin29 said:
Asham getting a lot of heat for his post-fight taunt on an obviously in distress Beagle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA2cPIoLryU

Kinda hard to watch actually.
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I don't know, I mean it's not like Asham was directly taunting Beagle. And by that I mean he wasn't doing those signs over his body as he laid on the ice. Asham won a fight in a close game against a big rival and promptly skated away to celebrate in front of the screaming home crowd. He had no idea that Beagle was having difficulties getting up. It's fine if people criticize Asham for the taunt in general, but I don't think it's fair to say it was a problem because of Beagle's condition.

With that said, Asham himself condoned his actions:

?I was into the game; it was uncalled for,? Asham, an experienced NHL fighter, told reporters after the game. ?Classless on my part, you know, I think those guys over there know that I?m not the kind of guy to be going off. It was a big game; I wanted to get my bench going, classless move on my part.?
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I'm assuming a lot of the anger/dislike to do with it is with the idea that you don't act like that after you've done that to a player (and I think Asham had to have known that his punch caused Beagle some trouble) you don't celebrate like that in case the other player is seriously injured.

I find myself agreeing with both Bob McKenzie and Aaron Ward, who were sort of on two different sides of it.  Ward thought it was 'bushleague' and that if you knock a guy down, your statement ends there, no need to showboat.  McKenzie didn't like it, but thought that if you're a fighter, you are in the heat of the moment doing a job like that, then it's hard to turn the switch off.

I think one thing I didn't like is that Beagle is not a fighter, and he took up with Asham because Asham challenged him over knocking Letang's helmet off.  That's all well and good, and if Beagle is willing to go with Asham (who has 20 or so fights over the last few years) then I don't think showing him up at the end is very classy (whether he is knocked out or not).

But he apologised, felt bad about it, I'm willing to chalk it up as adrenalin and nothing more.
 
Jason Blake to have surgery after getting cut.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/10/jason-blake-ducks-nhl-hockey.html
 
Hockey_gal said:
Jason Blake to have surgery after getting cut.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/10/jason-blake-ducks-nhl-hockey.html
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As much as Blake sucks, you hate to see anyone hurt like that.
 
Liberia, Canada, and the rubber puck...

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2011/10/13/grange_pucks/


...what if that black rubber bullet could help lift a nation from war-torn poverty? What if that frozen disc could help communities have access to fresh water and kids to proper schools?

Is hockey ready for a socially responsible puck?

George Roter thinks so. The chief executive officer and founder of Engineers Without Borders came up with a new concept for a Canadian icon, one which he believes will help develop a sustainable rubber industry in Liberia, the West African nation recovering from 14 years of civil war, while putting Canadian-manufactured pucks back in hockey bags across the nation.

"We think the sustainability of the materials inside the pucks and the social justice values they represent will bring some good karma," said Roter, who came up with the idea after hearing about fair trade chocolate and fair trade coffee...

"I figured, why not a hockey puck?"

Investigating further he learned that a significant number of the frozen Canadian rubber that gets put top-shelf aren?t made of rubber or made in Canada. About half of game pucks and virtually the entire souvenir market ? about 10-million pucks combined annually in North America ? are manufactured in Eastern Europe and often made of synthetic rubber, an oil-based product.

...entire communities could be turned around through simple innovations and modest economic interventions.

By creating a demand for Liberian rubber ? it?s tapped from trees the way we would harvest maple syrup ? he was convinced he could establish the kind of social and commercial win-win EWB has at the heart of its mandate.

"A tapper can make $8-10 a day compared with maybe $2 farming," says Roter. "They can use that money to send their kids to school or a community can come together to invest in building a well as a source of clean water. It can give them a chance."

Roter and EWB have teamed with Public Inc., a Toronto-based marketing agency focused on socially beneficial causes to establish the pucks under the Rubr brand and hopefully create a market for Liberian-rubber pucks manufactured by Viceroy Rubber and Plastics Inc. in St. Catharines, Ont.

They are in talks with a major Canadian retailer to get them into the hands of the hockey playing public...

"Normally a puck is a puck is a puck," said Ward Dilse, executive director of the OUA. "But this is something different."

The hurdle may be cost.

... retailers will typically tolerate a two or three-cent premium on a puck made in Canada compared with one imported from Eastern Europe.

Will retailers ? and the hockey-puck buying public ? get behind a puck that might be more expensive if it means having pucks made at home that help a war-torn nation find its feet?
 
Mordac said:
Hockey_gal said:
Jason Blake to have surgery after getting cut.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/10/jason-blake-ducks-nhl-hockey.html
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As much as Blake sucks, you hate to see anyone hurt like that.
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A video where Blake wrist is stepped on.
http://www.kuklaskorner.com/index.php/hockey/comments/video-_jason_blakes_wrist_slashed_by_skate_blade/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
 
Hockey_gal said:
Jason Blake to have surgery after getting cut.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/10/jason-blake-ducks-nhl-hockey.html
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Ouch, I hope he's ok, but it sounds fairly serious.
 
Bullfrog said:
Hockey_gal said:
Jason Blake to have surgery after getting cut.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/10/jas
on-blake-ducks-nhl-hockey.html
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Ouch, I hope he's ok, but it sounds fairly serious.
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Quite terrifying for a person to have a skate blade slice/cut them.  Feel bad for Blake.  Hope he makes a full recovery.
 
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has been credited with a hat-trick.

They may change his 3rd goal to hall, but either way.. he's off to a good start 4 pts in 3 games.
 
Deebo said:
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has been credited with a hat-trick.

They may change his 3rd goal to hall, but either way.. he's off to a good start 4 pts in 3 games.
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I was skeptical of RNH at first but maybe there's a reason they kept him... although you never know. It IS Edmonton after all.
 
Bender said:
Deebo said:
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has been credited with a hat-trick.

They may change his 3rd goal to hall, but either way..
he's off to a good start 4 pts in 3 games.
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I was skeptical of RNH at first but maybe there's a
reason they kept him... although you never know. It IS
Edmonton after all.
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This Oilers team is going to fly someday.  I like what they bring to their game. 
 
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