If it wasn't for the fact it was a well paying job with great benefits i would have quit. My boss hated sports also and couldn't understand why i wanted to spend all that money to see some stupid hockey arena as he called it.
That makes no sense. What you do with your time off shouldn't be irrelevant. When I took vacations with the time I accumulated, I never told anyone where I was going or if I was just vegging at home.
I once took a couple of days off, turned it into a 5 day weekend and went to Vegas, why does anyone have to know?
I hate management.
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I really didnt want to have to select an arena this early...but it seems to be an unavoidable trend, and I really dont want to get stuck with a toilet bowl like rectal place
Rangers fans can be awesome if they like you, but god help you if they get a hate on...it could be argued that the chorus of boos that rained down on Michal Roszival early this year almost destoyed his confidence
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That makes no sense. What you do with your time off shouldn't be irrelevant. When I took vacations with the time I accumulated, I never told anyone where I was going or if I was just vegging at home.
I once took a couple of days off, turned it into a 5 day weekend and went to Vegas, why does anyone have to know?
I hate management.
I agree that what one does with thier time is irrelevant. I simply wanted to change some vacation time and he asked why it was so important so i told him. He gave me some lame ass excuse that I should have planned my vacation times better. I should have added that he was a total jerk who was hated by all employees and took great delight in turning down employees requests. Some jerk on a power trip. Thankfully he was transfered out a few months later.
seems Im going to have some work to do here in a few minutes so real quick to keep things moving along Left Wing 1: Rick Martin
A part of the famous french connection in buffalo
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Martin was drafted 5th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft. He played 685 career NHL games, scoring 384 goals and 317 assists for 701 points. His best season was the 1974-75 NHL season when he scored 52 goals and 95 points in only 68 games. Martin scored at least 44 goals five times in his NHL career. Martin was selected to play in 7 consecutive National Hockey League All-Star Games (1971-72, through 1977-78) and was selected as the official NHL All-Star First Team left wing in 1973-74 & 1974-75 and the official NHL All-Star Second Team left wing in 1975-76 & 1976-77.[1] Martin holds the franchise career records for hat tricks, four goal games, 40 goal seasons, consecutive 40 goal seasons, 50 goal seasons (tied with Danny Gare), consecutive 50 goal seasons
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Ya I had to ask the commish if it needed to be specified which garden, but was told they were one and the same, though really hockey was only played in 2 of them I believe
I'll go with whatever the commish says, but:
MSG I was 1874-1890 and it's major tenant was the New York Rangers in the old NHA (5th & Madison Avenues, 26th & 27th Streets)
MSG II was 1890-1924, it was around for the birth of the NHL (Rangers) built on the same location
MSG III was 1924-1968, #2 Pennsylvania Plaza, hosting the NHL New York Rangers and Americans
MSG IV was 1968-present, #4 Pennsylvania Plaza
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On February 25, 1979, in a game between the Rangers and Islanders, Denis Potvin of the Islanders delivered a hip check to Rangers' center Ulf Nilsson. Nilsson suffered a broken ankle on the play, which sidelined him for the remainder of the season.
The play was generally regarded as clean. Rangers coach Fred Shero said of the hit, "It was a hard check, but you can't penalize a guy for hitting hard."Regardless, Rangers fans never forgave Potvin for it and created the "Potvin sucks" chant, wherein they punctuate the song "Let's Go Band" with "Potvin sucks!".
Initially, the fans responded when the song was played on the Garden organ, but since the mid-1980s, Garden management has refused to play it at Rangers games. As a result, the fans whistle or hum the tune themselves to set up the chant.
Rangers fans engage in the chant multiple times at every home game regardless of the opponent.
MSG I was 1874-1890 and it's major tenant was the New York Rangers in the old NHA (5th & Madison Avenues, 26th & 27th Streets)
MSG II was 1890-1924, it was around for the birth of the NHL (Rangers) built on the same location
MSG III was 1924-1968, #2 Pennsylvania Plaza, hosting the NHL New York Rangers and Americans
MSG IV was 1968-present, #4 Pennsylvania Plaza
I understand that
if I had to choose a specific building I probably would have gone with a different arena choice
I suppose if theres enough dissent it may be changed, but Ill leave it for now
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In 1973 Tardif signed with the upstart World Hockey Association, playing with the Los Angeles Sharks. He was the Sharks' leading scorer that season, and was named to play for Team Canada in the 1974 Summit Series the following fall. The Sharks, however, finished with the league's poorest record, and moved to Detroit, where Tardif played brilliantly before a trade to the Quebec Nordiques.
In Quebec, Tardif became one of the league's preeminent stars. He finished the 1975 season with 50 goals, and added a league-leading ten goals in the playoffs en route to the AVCO Cup finals against the eventual champion Houston Aeros. The next season he exploded, leading the WHA in goals, assists and points by wide margins and becoming only the second professional player to score seventy goals in a single season, while the Nordiques rampaged to fifty wins. Tardif's playoff was cut short by a shocking stick attack by Calgary Cowboys goon Rick Jodzio in which he incurred serious head injuries, leading to one of the first ever cases where a hockey player was charged in a court of law for assault.
The next season Tardif was named the captain of the team, and recovered to another hundred point campaign while leading the Nordiques to its only WHA championship, and followed that up in 1978 with a 154-point campaign (setting a professional hockey record eventually broken by Wayne Gretzky), for which he received his second league MVP award.
Awards:
Stanley Cup Champion 1971, 1973 (with Montreal)
1st in WHA history in career goals, 2nd in points, 3rd in assists, and 20th in games played.
Won WHA scoring titles in 1976 and 1978.
Won the Gordie Howe Trophy as the WHA's most valuable player in 1976 and 1978.
Named to the WHA's First All-Star Team in 1976, 1977 and 1978.
Named to the WHA's Second All-Star Team in 1975.
Played in NHL All-Star Game in 1982.
I agree that what one does with thier time is irrelevant. I simply wanted to change some vacation time and he asked why it was so important so i told him. He gave me some lame ass excuse that I should have planned my vacation times better. I should have added that he was a total jerk who was hated by all employees and took great delight in turning down employees requests. Some jerk on a power trip. Thankfully he was transfered out a few months later.
You should have lied.
"I need to go to Chicago because my grandfather is dying of cancer and wants to see for the last time. I would have scheduled it earlier but his condition deteriorated so quickly that I have to move this trip up now.
I'm gonna really miss him alot (hic hic)"
Then go see the game
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Sorry, newly named Team "Give Blood...play hockey" is happy to select,
RW Sergei Makarov
Sergei Mikhailovich Makarov (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Макаров; born June 19, 1958 in Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union, now Russia) is a Russian former ice hockeyright wing and two-time Olympic gold medalist, regarded as one of the greatest players to play the sport. He was voted one of six players to the International Ice Hockey Federation's (IIHF) Team of the Century in a poll conducted by a group of 56 experts from 16 countries.[1]
Makarov was trained entirely in the Soviet Union. He won two World Junior Championships, and was named the best player during his second victory in 1978. Makarov was also on the gold winning Soviet national ice hockey team in the World Championships in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989 and 1990 and in the Canada Cup in 1981. At the Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in 1984 and 1988 and a silver in 1980 as a member of the USSR team. Back in the Soviet Union, Makarov played 11 championship seasons with CSKA Moscow, winning the Soviet player of the year award eight times, MVP three times, and leading the league in points nine times and goals three times. Together with Igor Larionov and Vladimir Krutov, they formed the KLM line, one of the most talented and feared lines ever to play hockey. He was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1984)[2].
In 1989, Makarov was allowed by the Soviet Union to join the National Hockey League and the Calgary Flames. He won the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year at the age of 31 (as a result, the rules were changed and now only players under 26 qualify for the award - the Makarov Rule). Makarov also played for the San Jose Sharks from 1993 to 1996. For the 1995-96 season Makarov was dropped from the Sharks’ roster and did not play and became an assistant coach for the Russian national team during the World Cup.
After separating from his first wife Vera in Calgary, he met Mary, who had worked for the San Jose Sharks in the ticket sales. They got married and had two children, Nicky and Katya.
In the 1996-97 season, Sergei made two comeback attempts. First the Dallas Stars signed him on a contract and played 4 games. Then he played some games for Fribourg-Gottéron in Switzerland's Nationalliga A with his former teammates Viacheslav Bykov and Andrei Khomutov.
Makarov still lives in the Bay Area, California with his wife and children, son Nicky and daughter Katya, and works as a certified player agent who acts as a liaison for young Russians wanting to play in North America.
In 2001 Sergei was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame during the Ice Hockey World Championship in Germany.
The Saddledome was built to have a maximum capacity of approximately 20,000 fans. Major renovations in 1994–1995 reduced capacity to its current configuration of 19,289 for hockey. The facility is currently managed by the Calgary Flames Hockey Club, who have leased the 'Dome until 2014. The future of the building is currently under debate, as the Flames have begun plans to build a new arena, at which point it is expected the Saddledome will be demolished.
