With our next pick, The Flying Elbows would like to select our replacement at #2 Center...
From The Soviet Union, Evgeni Malkin!
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Awards and achievements
NHL Rookie of the Month - October 2006,[13] November 2006
Calder Memorial Trophy (NHL Rookie of the Year) - 2007
Michel Briere Memorial Trophy (Pittsburgh Penguins Rookie of the Year) - 2007 (shared with Jordan Staal)
World Championships All-Star Team - 2007
All-Star Game - 2008
NHL First Star of the Month - February 2008
NHL First All-Star Team - 2008
Hart Memorial Trophy nomination - 2008
Pittsburgh Penguins Most Valuable Player - 2008
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Records
First player since 1917-18 to score goals in each of his first six NHL games (first accomplished by Joe Malone, Newsy Lalonde and Cy Denneny in inaugural NHL season)
Longest point streak by a Russian player in the NHL - 15 games (surpassed Dmitri Kvartalnov of the Boston Bruins - 14 games in 1992)
He stood 5 foot 9 and his playing weight was 165. Pilote was a three time recipient of the Norris Trophy for outstanding defenceman in 1963, 1964, and 1965 as well as runner-up in 1962, 1966 and 1967. He was on the first or second all-star team every year from 1960 to 1967.
During his playing career, he was respected as an iron man playing 376 consecutive games. Wearing his familiar number 3, Pilote played his best hockey teamed with Elmer 'Moose' Vasko on the Chicago blue line. Together they formed one of the great all time defence pairings.
In 1961 the Black Hawks won the Stanley Cup and at the beginning of the following season, Pilote was named Captain of the team.
Pilote was inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975. In 1998, he was ranked number 59 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. In 2005, in a series of stamps honouring great hockey stars, Canada Post honoured Pilote with his own stamp.
On July 18, 2008, the Blackhawks announced that the #3 jersey worn by Pilote and Keith Magnuson would be retired in a joint ceremony. The ceremony was held on November 12, 2008, before the Blackhawks faced off against the Boston Bruins in an Original 6 matchup at the United Center.
3 Norris trophies, 5 time 1st team all-star, 3 time second team all-star, jersey retired, HHOF and his own stamp!
Team Cylones recap:
Center-1: Stan Mikita (2xHart, 3xArt Ross, 6x1st team, 2x2nd team, 2x Bying)
Right Wing-1: Teemu Selanne (Richard, Calder, Masterton, 2x1st team, 2x2nd team)
Right Wing 2: Boom Boom Geoffrion (2xArt Ross, Hart, Calder, 1x1st team, 2x2nd team)
Left Wing-1: Bobby Hull (2xHart, 3xArt Ross, 10x1st team, 2x2nd team)
Left Wing-2: Michel Goulet (3xBying, 3x1st team, 2x2nd team)
Defence-1: Dit Clapper (3x1st team, 3x2nd team)
Defence-2: Pierre Pilote (3xNorris, 5x1st team, 3x2nd team)
Goalie-1: Dominik Hasek (2xHart, 2xPearson, 6xVezina, 3xJennings, 5x1st team)
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With the USSR having dissolved a few months before, the Soviet Olympic team competes under the banner of the "Commonwealth of Independent States." The hockey team wins its eighth gold medal since 1956, a final victory in one of the greatest championship runs in any sport. In future Olympics, former Soviets republics will compete seperately.
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Alright since one arena was already taken, I want to make sure I get the arena of my choice. It was a tough decision between my pick and Boston Garden, but I finally decided. The Bawlf Blawkhawks would like to take The Madhouse on Madison, Chicago Stadium as my arena.
It has the honor of being considered the loudest building in NHL history, and even if it hasn't hosted a ton of championships. Plus, how can you not love that organ?
Finished March 28, 1929, it seated 17,317 screaming fans, plus however many they could pack into standing room.
With the USSR having dissolved a few months before, the Soviet Olympic team competes under the banner of the "Commonwealth of Independent States." The hockey team wins its eighth gold medal since 1956, a final victory in one of the greatest championship runs in any sport. In future Olympics, former Soviets republics will compete seperately.
Ohhh yeah, I remember that. I just didn't remember the name they used. Maybe that IS what I'm doing...
Team Slapshot are pleased to select as our Defenceman #2, a player who will become known as one of the best all-time shutdown defencemen. Early pick maybe but then I really like:
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Alright since one arena was already taken, I want to make sure I get the arena of my choice. It was a tough decision between my pick and Boston Garden, but I finally decided. The Bawlf Blawkhawks would like to take The Madhouse on Madison, Chicago Stadium as my arena.
It has the honor of being considered the loudest building in NHL history, and even if it hasn't hosted a ton of championships. Plus, how can you not love that organ?
Finished March 28, 1929, it seated 17,317 screaming fans, plus however many they could pack into standing room.
Team Slapshot are pleased to select as our Defenceman #2, a player who will become known as one of the best all-time shutdown defencemen. Early pick maybe but then I really like:
Robyn Regehr
Dammit! He was my next D pick! I thought for sure I had at least another round...
Team He Shoots.....He Scoooores!!! is thrilled to select the original Boston Garden as the arena where our storied team shall play and teach all comers to fear and wish for a mercifully quick departure.
Tex Rickard built the arena specifically with boxing in mind, believing that every seat should be close enough to see the "sweat on the boxers' brows." Because of this design theme, when the larger hockey and basketball playing areas were used, fans were much closer to the players than in most arenas, leading to a distinct hometown advantage. The closeness also created spectacular acoustic effects; one legendary story had a lone fan, sitting in the cheapest seats in the arena, harassing Bruins player Ed Westfall from across the length of the ice, and Westfall turning and giving him "the finger". When teams made playoff appearances, and a sold out crowd was chanting or screaming, the impact was enormous.
The Garden was also infamous for several design flaws, such as seating that was obstructed by enormous cement pillars. Some seats were situated directly behind them. The hockey rink was undersized as it was nine feet shorter and two feet narrower than standard (200 feet by 85 feet), due to the rink being built at a time when the NHL did not have a standard size for rinks for arenas to go by. The setup threw visiting players off their games. Its visitor's dressing room was notoriously small, hot, and underserved by plumbing; the Los Angeles Lakers developed a special hatred for it. Rats made the bowels of the Garden their home.
The Garden had no air conditioning, resulting in fog forming over the ice during Bruins' playoff games.
The electrical systems were notoriously unreliable; the Bruins' last two Stanley Cup finals appearances were both disrupted by power outages. On May 24, 1988 a power transformer blew up during Game 4 of the finals series between the Bruins and the Edmonton Oilers: the contest officially ended in a 3–3 tie. However the power-outage had nothing to do with the Garden; it was a transformer in the North End that knocked out power to all areas, including the Garden. Two years later, on May 15, 1990, the lights went out during an overtime finals game between the same two teams, only because they'd been on for so long (the game went to 3 overtimes and lasted 6 hours) The lights got turned back on this time, and Game 1 of the series ended with a 3–2 triple overtime win for the visiting Oilers.
The Garden cost $4million to build and opened on Nov. 17, 1928 - it could hold a crowd of 14,448 and the team won Stanley Cups while located there in 1929, 1939, 1941, 1970 & 1972.
The Bruins played there from 1928 - 1995 and the building was finally demolished in 1997. The new TD Banknorth Garden was built just 9" north of the original building.
No worries my friend, I shall see if I cannot return the "favour" sometime soon........
And at least I got my 2nd choice....because honestly, just like coaches - there is a serious drop-off in my opinion of classically awesome arenas.
Yeah I really had a tough time picking between the two of them. I think that after the rinks of the Original Six, there's very slim pickings...I suppose a case could be made for Lester Patrick's rink on the West Coast, but I can't really think of a modern one that makes me look at it in awe every time I see pictures of it.
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Team He Shoots.....He Scoooores!!! is thrilled to select the original Boston Garden as the arena where our storied team shall play and teach all comers to fear and wish for a mercifully quick departure.
I hate you with every ounce of my being right now! (not sure if this should be in green yet)
I knew I should have taken last pick once the Forum was taken but I did not think that people would go nuts and start picking arenas when there are many holes in the players.
Darn you Berger!!! 
