From the NYR:
RANGERS CLAIM DEFENSEMAN ROMAN HAMRLIK OFF WAIVERS
NEW YORK, March 6, 2013 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has claimed defenseman Roman Hamrlik off waivers from the Washington Capitals.
Hamrlik, 38, was the first overall pick in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft and is the current active leader in NHL games played, having appeared in 1,383 career regular season contests. The three-time NHL All-Star (1996, 1999, 2003) has registered 155 goals and 483 assists for 638 points, along with 1,402 penalty minutes over 20 seasons with the Tampa Bay Lightning, Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders, Calgary Flames, Montreal Canadiens, and Washington Capitals. He currently ranks third in career goals, assists and points among active NHL defensemen. Hamrlik’s team has advanced to the playoffs in 14 of 16 seasons since 1995-96.
Last season, Hamrlik led Washington in playoff plus/minus rating with a postseason career-high, plus-eight rating through two playoff rounds against the Rangers and Boston Bruins. He also ranked second on the team in blocked shots (37), fourth in average time on ice (22:17), and tied for first among team defensemen in assists (three) and second in points (four) in 14 playoff games.
The 6-2, 206-pounder has registered one assist in four games with Washington this season. He made his NHL debut on October 7, 1992, against Chicago, and registered his first career point with a goal on October 20, 1992, against Edmonton. Hamrlik established career-highs in games played (82), goals (16), assists (49), points (65) and power play goals (12) during the 1995-96 season. He also tied his career-high in goals with 16 as a member of the Islanders in 2000-01, tying for fourth in goals among NHL defensemen that season.
In postseason action, Hamrlik has registered three goals and 37 assists for 40 points, along with 85 penalty minutes in 111 career games with the Lightning, Oilers, Islanders, Flames, Canadiens, and Capitals. He established playoff career-highs in games played (19), assists (nine) and points (nine) with Montreal in 2009-10, while helping the Canadiens advance to the Conference Finals.
The Zlin, Czech Republic native is a two-time Olympian, having represented the Czech Republic at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1998, he recorded one goal in six games to help the Czech Republic capture an Olympic gold medal. Hamrlik has also represented the Czech Republic in the IIHF World Championship (1994, 2004), the World Cup (1996, 2004), and the IIHF World Junior Championship (1992).
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first…
The Roman Hammer! Sick him on Spartacus!
Oh crap. That’s a bad sign
Stuart – That was the shortest post of your career
mcilrath is not ready. is he ever going to be ready? does he need to grow up?
REPOST
Manny – just from watching him play in Moose Jaw, he’s a pretty terrible skater. It’s one thing to just be big and slow because you are 6’5” or 6’7”, but you are still able to move around and stay in position. McIlrath has had a problem with that.
Plus if you waste your 1st round pick on a guy who only has highlights of his fights, I don’t see the point in it. That’s just me though. I like to use 1st round picks of guys who put up numbers and have skill. Not guys who are just there to be 4th liners/6th d-men who can fight.
I still think Tinordi would’ve been a much better selection there if we were going for D-men.
i am for this move, even if he stinks they can waive him…
obviously the d men in AHL are not exactly premium talents, that is a problem btw…
Saw your post re: Mcllrath, Jonny. Thanks. I really haven’t seen him skate.
Going to a CT Whale game in two weeks so I am pretty excited to watch him.
Manny he’ll probably get the call up with Kyle Jean the day before you go.
Nah dude! This is a real job, not like teaching kids. You can’t get byfugliened up.
Jeez, now I feel old. Check out that 1992-3 Lightning roster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%E2%80%9393_Tampa_Bay_Lightning_season
Friends, Roman and Boneheads
Hamrlik?
That my nickname for wifey #1
can’t someone buy that euro-pansie a dump-assen vowel or something
As the Real Kenny Powers once put so eloquently:
“Change is f*ing good – but folding money is better.”
Fat Guy, that’s a repurposed line from “Coming to America.”
“Kevin Hatcher wasn’t available?”
HA. great line.
If I don’t get to see Kyle Jean I am going to demand a refund in full!
NO, YOU SLOW DOWN. STOP BLOCKING ME SO QUICKLY.
I think McIrath is shaving twice a week Stuie, so he’s pretty grown up now
You all said Hamrlik.
Doodie – I like Coming to America also…either way, I can still let my soul glo
Hamr > Caber
Easy big fella
I’m coming there as Kenny Powers the man, not the legend, the one he’s pissed at.
CABER
> = Rosen’s nose and Michelletti’s squinty eyes
At one point in his life it seems like Hamrlik was trusted on the PP. Move over Caber.
I like Living in the USA
Did he play on the Italian Olympic Team? Mama would like that
Why are you talking about Roman Hamrlik?
Hamrlik and Bickle – new communistic symbolism
No Papa, but Ranger greats Tony Tuzzolino and Jason Muzzatti did.
Because he’ll be manning the point on our next PP
HAMMER!
is he related to roman ndur?
CCCP, you are a genius.
Hamrlik is wearing #40.
Guess Mashinter isn’t getting called up anytime soon.
Does the irony of acquiring Hamerlik the day before we play the Islanders do anything for anybody?
Nice Jonny
Czechthemout should be pretty happy with the move. His handle is relevant again.
It makes me feel warm inside
But I thought he’s Italian Manny?
Oh. Sorry. I should have listened to Carp and not brought the “facts” into it.
Since we’re talking Hamrlik, Carp is actually Crp
HAHA. Good one Ft Gy
Not really Zubov, coincidence. Plus they play the Caps Sunday.
In honor of Hamrlik we should call change our handles to the style of CommnSens or Nnsns or whatever.
Id love to see MZA with Nash. Not sure how i feel about Hamerlik. Thought Eminger was fine. Bickel
continuing to take stuid penalties ala Hollweg
Fun fact of the day. Sam Rosen = Sam Rosenbloom. Hence the nose.
Changed his name for TV. I played hockey with his son in NY for years. Had all of beezers old equipment.
Facts, we can’t handle the facts
doodie said comimg
Wow! can you imagine if they help on to Hamrlik and we claimed POTI off of waivers? There would be mass hysteria! Blood shed, wiget riots, giant jars of peanut butter getting sent to MSG and Greenburgh!
Stay positive folks. Hamr had a great +/- last season..and we all know how important those are….
haha “doodie coming”
YES! In honor of Roman, this should be a vowel-free zone until he score his first NYR goal. It’ll be like our playoff beards
I know eric staal tweeted ‘waiting for swelling to go down around marc’s eye” that was what I was thinking this morning. Than they will probably run a x-ray to see if there is a fracture. Anyway you look at it, Marc staal won’t be playing for a while.
also test marc staal’s eye.
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Rosenbloom and nose. What’s the connection?
At one point in his life it seems like Hamrlik was trusted on the PP. Move over Caber.
Walter Sobchak: Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax…
[shouting]
Walter Sobchak: You’re goddamn right I’m living in the f’ng past!
Poti is allergic to hitting.
the problem I see going forward with the rangers is they need depth at forward and defense. it appears it’s going to be one of those seasons when it comes to injuries for this team. I do think sather will be active in trying to better the roster from now until the trading deadline. If this team can stay healthy and that is a big if, I think they can be good enough to get to the cup. If they can’t stay healthy than they will struggle to make the playoffs.
it makes him break out
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pr pti!
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Hammerlick needs to buy some consonants to go with his vowels
So is Hamr going to play 4th line RW in place of Bickel orrrr?
Well I’m upper upper class high society
God’s gift to ballroom notoriety
And I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
The social pages say I’ve got
The biggest balls of all
Bon Scott said Balls
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It is funny that Hamrlik will play against the Islanders. Extra funny to me because the last time I saw him play live he was on the Caps and playing against the Islanders (I know. A friend got us tickets).
dd dd dd
Eddies name without vowels would be
dd dd dd
jnx
any body hear anything on #18?
If you guys are on Twitter you should follow me and then I will follow you. Then we can all complain/preach about hockey more often.
@spikesup
Mtty “MnstrNsh By: I think the latest is what Eric Staal said: waiting for swelling to reduce so they can see the damage.
T my shrts
I feel about MZA the way half the people here feel about MDZ.
So I guess my handle fits the new trend on here…cool!
Sure does, CooCaCeoPoo.
MDZ MZA MDA MBA MNM ….all good
triple double D
KKK (tim thomas – last seen on Oberlin College campus)
ilb, would swelling obscure an x-ray? If not, I think it’s safe to say at this point his face isn’t broken.
doodie said face
doodie said swelling
Let’s just make sure that when Roman scores, and we give Crp his “a” back, we put it in the right place
Double D’s – now you are talking!
If at first you don’t succeed, then maybe you just suck
There is one image in my life that consistently makes me happy no matter when I think about it. And that image, that one image, is your big testitos
I play real sports. Not trying to be the best at exercising.
kenny powers – i am a 34 B man myself
you guys are so much better than the filthy mouthed night posters…..all they talk about is poo poo and pee pee and making fun of names…..
Good question, Doodie. Somebody needs to txt ilb immediately. We need his expertise. Priorities, Ilb.
I am prim and proper and insulted by what goes on after hours here…..
yeah, after midnight, this place becomes like the alley behind the central train station in any major European city
But without the severe risk of being pick pocketed, Ft Gy.
How do you get a Europansy to go into the corners? Have a fight at center ice.
SOUNDS LIKE PINK PANTHER DD DD DD
anyone who tries to pick pocket me has no idea what they may come out with…
and minus the street meat vendors?
anyone who tries to pick pocket me has no idea what they may come out with…
Lk myb pns?
(For writing with, sickos.)
more like half eaten kebobs or peanut butter residue
Megan Fox knows what’s up: http://ctboom.com/wp-content/uploads/megan-fox-hartford-whalers.jpg
Also, guess my dream of getting Stphn Wss is going up in flames…
FlaPanthersFor #FlaPanthers center Stephen Weiss, a surgery and then uncertainty lies ahead.fat guy – i have a Randy Johnson in mine…
What did the Pink Panther say when he killed an ant?
Dead ant.
Dead ant.
Dead ant dead ant dead ant.
But your dream of Iginla hasn’t been attacked by a panther yet, so there’s some hope.
Ouch – she fills out that shirt better than Blaine Stoughton ever did
e3 said randy
e3 said johnson
I only have one leg
noboby can tell tho…..
I can do a pushup without using my arms.
The Doctor! Change your dmn name!
Mstr D
i can touch the ceiling while laying down
KevinWeekesThe @NYRangers were impressed w Roman Hamrlik last Playoffs against them & Boston playing 22 mins per game,8 blocked shots….Clssc Sthr. In the word’s of any character on Archer, “That’s so him”
I can golf without a club.
when i drive, i need to sit in the back seat for the extra “leg” room
WTB?
LMGovedarisO at Blaine Stoughton!
Good one Ft Gy
i can tell the depth of any body or water by standing still
Ilb – i blame doodie….
May as well just go w/ the full Mustard, right? Name changed.
Mean Mr. Mustard
Cngrts on the name chng there, MstrD
I was the inspiration for the freedom tower.
Sorry, was giving a lecture…
No, Doodie, the swelling wouldn’t interfere with X-ray, CT-scan/MRI. They are waiting for swelling to come down to evaluate his vision, extraocular movement, anterior/interior chambers of the eye, etc. I think they already have a decent idea.
The crooks never sleep and neither does Closeeau!
Sorry, I meant Ddie
Oh. Cool news, ilb. So if they are waiting for swelling to reduce, they probably know that nothing is broken already.
Would you say that these are positive developments?
doodie – i have a freedom tower
ilb, so it’s probably safe to assume his skull isn’t fractured because he didn’t go to the hospital, correct?
when i lean forward just a little, i am a tripod
Speaking of our name changes: It’s really depressing that St. Patrick’s Day is on a Sunday this year. Because I really love when it’s crowded in here and we are all:
McManny
O’Doodie McMachetto
O’Latona
etc.
e3, I got a citation for freeing my tower in public.
this will be a big help for all of us to lodge complaints around the league, or propose trades
http://www.salshockeyautographs.com/p/nhl-addresses.html
I can shade myself on the beach while on my back.
It’s actually O’Doodie MacHetto.
staal will hopefully be back soon….....he isnt a baseball player
I wonder whats up with Staal.
Anyways, Hammertime it is
instead of McFat Guy, which sounds even stupider than just Fat Guy, would you all mind if I went by “McRib” that day?
have to say I feel really bad for Staal. in the last few games the guy has looked the best he’s looked since the concussion and I got the sense he was really feeling fully comfortable again for the first time since…and now this crap happens. really unfortunate. the guy deserves better.
when my boat is about to dock, i dont need an anchor
I’d rather you go by “Big Mc.”
They have golden arches, we have golden arcs.
when i served on a submarine, the periscope broke …..not a problem….
I’m already in the kitchen before my foot gets in the front door.
I can run the 100 yard dash on a 90 yard track.
I can walk my dog without a leash
When I’m standing on the side of the street, people stop and pay me a toll.
lloyd – agreed…maloney has been praising his game a lot lately…
I sneezed and put my eye out.
I can fish without a rod
People shouldn’t stand next to me when I lay down in the rain.
hubble telescope looks like a magnifying glass when i stand next to it
Not sure, Doodie…They haven’t said anything about fracture etc….He didn’t go to the hospital, that’s all we know, so they didn’t feel it was of any immediate threat to his eye.
i can tuck into my shoe
I can pogo without a pogo stick
ilb, but if he had a skull fracture, even a minor one, they wouldn’t send him to the hospital?
Horses get jealous when Im around
I can serve a baker’s dozen of bagels to any woman at any bar mitzvah
elephant trunks are less useful than i am
When the had a shortage of telephone poles after Sandy, they called me.
i can mark first downs without a chain
I require no kneck ties
what I just read said they’re waiting for the swelling around Staal’s eye to subside before making any kind of an assessment
I’m perpetually offsides
once while driving, i threw it out the window and it caused an accident 3 miles back
I can trip you without using my arms or legs
You guys are nts, you know that?
I can tap you on the shoulder, without using my hands.
i use it as a belt and a headband
I got a big schwantz
i can write on the board from the back row
it’s like a baby holding an apple.
Nuts….....that’s a horse of different color
catheter tube??? try 20 ft PVC pipe
I went skinny dipping one time and the thought a whale had surface, while I was doing the underwater backstroke…. Huh?
I can build a goal out of it.
I got a big fat schwantz
I claimed the moon in the name of the United States
on a nude beach, I am visible from space
A hippie is living up near the top of it so no one cuts it down.
good one by Doodie
Mine can bend,,, but it’s never been broke.
I was on the 10 meter board in a diving competition and was penalized for early entry (even tho i was still standing on the board)
I have graffiti on mine
Staten Island Ferry pulled up to me thinking I was standing on Liberty Island
window washing – never a problem….
I once played “Red Rover.” My friend’s funeral was three days later.
Brian Cashman called me and left me a message about some sort of rapelling
I can give you a tow without a chain
That isn’t florida by the way…..me laying down near cuba
Man, is Crp lucky he’s offline today
I can dig to China without a shovel.
Spiral stairs, don’t need them
I can stand on home plate and also be on first
FAA gives warning when i lay down
I can dig to China and back, sans shovel
I have a part-time job at at Yankee Stadium as a foul pole.
yes, bird strikes can sometimes be a nuisance
Birds are happy when I’m around
if i lean far enough i can touch Ireland (from CA)
once in the middle of the night I ran out of protection so I ran to Yankee Stadium and grabbed the tarp…I didn’t even notice Doodie standing there
People have contacted me about renting office space. I don’t own a building.
I can pitch a circus tent, while sleeping
When I lay down in Manhattan I have to buy air rights.
You guys just feel that shaking???? it fell off my shoulders..
I clean chimneys without utensils
It takes less time to circumnavigate the globe than it does to get halfway around me.
i need a crane to lift it out of bed sometimes
Jack – for the last F’in time, get off me, that is not a beanstalk
Lincoln tunnel is my girlfriend
St. Peter is angry with me because when I jumped I accidentally dented the Pearly Gates.
St Paddys Day I paint it green and people dance a jig around it
also a good one by DD DD DD
What in Don Cherry’s wardrobe in going on here?
I was in Die Hard 2. Nobody on my plane was in danger because they just climbed down to the ground.
My first girlfriend started Festivus on me
I can put out a 5 alarm fire in any high rise…....
I spend every holiday season covered in lights at Rockerfeller Center.
from the space shuttle, I can hit earth
I’m a walking to many men on the ice penalty
I’m currently negotiating with the Port Authority to serve as a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge.
i just unleashed it….look out your windows
When I get on the ice they call a “too much man” penalty.
today’s blog is not the one that’s going into the time capsule and shuttled to Mars for aliens to get to know about humans
You want to trade atgrphs ft gy?
I beat out every icing call but I’m always offsides.
NBC painted mine orange and black for last year’s Classic
Unreal that teams don’t require their skill players to wear visors, the fuller the better. Good businesses protect their assets. If the thugs want to go without, all power to them—they’re easily replaced. Staals don’t grow on trees, though, and the step-up alternate captain, Girardi, is begging for an eye out the way he goes down. Who is paying their salaries, and why would they ever accept, “I don’t like visors” as an answer from a player?
Mt Everest isnt 29,000 + ......believe me
I’ve been mistaken for a privacy schrub
People sleep around me in tents and call it base camp.
NORM!!!
Where everybody knows your (pseudo)name!
Fat guy – i am on mars right now
HAHA, Ft Gy wins.
My wife hangs wet clothes on it, so does my next door neighbor.
my nickname in HS was sequoia
Manny – I am not an autograph collector, but I ended up with an off the wall collection. Lyle Alzado, Darryl Dawkins, Joe D., Phil Simms from a hospital bed…not much hockey, tho
I was the bar in Cheers.
extra terrestrials know all about me
Doodie, I spilt a drink on you
God didn’t part the Red Sea for Noah, I just slammed it down in the water.
i live in 4 zip codes
Why is everyone all over Visors? Honestly, guys. Not everyone wears them. That’s how it is and how it’s going to be. I am sure the individual players have a reason. It’s up to them. I am of the opinion that Visor’s can break and if a visor breaks the resulting injury will be HORRIFIC because of all the jagged plastic cutting your face.
Not all players wear skate guards. Not all players wear gloves with extra padding. Not all players wear wrist and ankle teflon guards. Not all goalies wear the collarbone protector (see Henrik Lundqvist) It just is how it is. People make choices. Those choices may be stupid but they are what they are. Not all players are going to wear the maximum protective gear.
If the teams want to do something proactive they should put it in the contract that if you’re injured in an area usually covered by a visor you don’t get paid while you’re on IR. That would make a difference.
The pyramids is a 1/4 scale replica of what it looks like when I pitch a tent.
An udt n sthwhl?
I passed a kidney stone the size of gibralter
My magic wand was the inspiration for Harry Potter
that wsnt a ship Noah built….
I threw mine in the atlantic ocean…...turned into a beach
I don’t collect or have a lot of autographs either. I have some old baseballs my dad collected when he was little and I will admit my new office that I just moved into is getting decorated in a heavily Rangers autographed manner.
CCCP – I’ve been pretty good with most of these today, but did you just say:
And audit on southwheel?
h, did I say Noah for the Red Sea? I meant Moses. It’s hard to think when your body has to divert away as much blood as mine.
chris christie needed 2 meals to finish
I use the grand canyon for a jock strap.
Doodie – the funny thing is that no one even noticed or called you on it….just a bunch a dts
I think it’s much more likely they are just ignoring us.
every time I visit Japan wearing tightie whities, they think the U.S. Navy is surrendering
doodie – inow what you mean…..i see a babe and I pass out…...named it kockaphobia maximus
OK, pointless meeting is over. Time for me to get back to work.
doodie – seriously look out your window…its waving at you
Any update on Sthaawhlh?*
Ft Gy
DD DD DD
that’s Latin for nice knobs
trust me…there is no Goodyear Blimp
I’m the fifth musketeer that no one likes to talk about, out of jealousy
Is it even possible that Crp bans the whole blog?
I mean, if Bickel plays 4 minutes in a forest, and no one is there to rip him to shreds, did he really play 4 minutes?
“That’s how it is and how it’s going to be.” Same logic players pushed before they were required to wear helmets. Of course the players are going to want the freedom to wear what they damn well please. They’re young and immortal—their skills and stones got them to the NHL after all. The owners, those that give a crap anyway, need to protect them from themselves as much as possible. Eye injuries aren’t going to be stopped by visors, but they’ll at least be minimized.
Roman’s done…. Bad move….bad news coming from Staal
NORM!!!
I love when you and Coach said-
“Can I draw you a beer, Norm ?”
“No, I know what they look like. Just pour me one.”
Roman will be 39 next month. #1 overall pick, 1992. Talk about staying in shape. However, few ice minutes this year.
largest mammal on earth isnt the Blue whale….
oh great mr. filth himself has awoke…......hi kooz
What’s goin’ down? Me, on this stool.
Kz – don’t go back and read this, it was all just a bad dream
“What would you say to a beer, Normie?”
“Daddy wuvs you.”
I’ve been helping bore the 2nd Ave subway tunnel
—“What’s going on, Mr. Peterson?”
—“The question is what’s going in Mr. Peterson.”
I am going to sit in my jacuzzi….hope i dont empty 400 gallons….
“Hey Mr. Peterson, Jack Frost nipping at your nose?”
“Yep, now let’s get Joe Beer nipping at my liver, huh?”
at MSG, i sit on 7th Ave side…and the 8th Ave, side
2001 Space Odyssey…I was the monolith.
Indeed a backhoe to clean the lint off my base.
I agree with you, Norm. I just don’t think it’s going to be a mandatory thing overnight. I know they are stupid. They are brash and young and don’t think they can be hurt. I would have been that way at their age.
I just don’t think it’s going to change
Did I say backhoe or black ho?
On airplanes…i buy 9 seats when i fly solo…...i need the entire row
To clarify: I think they way they are doing it is good. Visors are required at lower levels. Guys aren’t going to wear them their whole life and then take them off at the NHL level. Visors will be phased in by default.
Mod squad must be off today
time for the hot tub…see youse in a bit…
I will be the sky bridge at MSG.
Hockey Central is saying that, from what they have heard, the Staal injury is not only not career threatening it is not serious. They are mostly worried about CT Scans and etc. I feel positive though.
Srry. Meant to say: Hcky Cntrl
Good for Staalsy…plus, we need him. We have tons of the kinds of injuries that no real offseason regimen or preparation could have prevented
Hockey Central is saying that, from what they have heard, the Staal injury is not only not career threatening it is not serious. They are mostly worried about CT Scans and etc. I feel positive though.
Considering how barfy I felt when it happened last night, that’s pretty awesome.
Also, if Visors are made mandatory or everyone is wearing them it has to be a rule that you take it off before a fight. I know that’s borderline impossible in a non-staged fight but it’s ridiculous when guys with visors fight. You might as well fight with your hockey gloves on to protect your hand from the other idiot’s visor.
Visors not a simple issue. Better, perhaps, would be a return to the bad old days when players kept their sticks down and respected each other’s livelihood. Full-out face-guards ruined the college game, arguably got Travis Roy’s neck broken among others’ as sticks up into the boards became the rule rather than the exception, and the clean open-ice hits died away. Still, visors would help with pucks if nothing else. The face-shots into the boards that are the highlight of the season so far will have to be dealt with otherwise by the NHL: Not Halting the Lunacy.
I’m not going to be the one to tell Cyclops that he has to take off his visor in a fight
Sam Rosen was Sam Rosenbaum, not Rosenbloom. Know his family personally
300!!!!
and 6 were about hockey
Worry in order of importance:
1. Loss of the eye,
2. Concussion, because of previous history.
3. Fracture
If he can somehow walk away without any of the above,,, it will be a miracle.
Baum, Bloom, Iceberg, Goldberg, Marc Staal, Jordan Staal, it’s all good
Guys aren’t going to wear them their whole life and then take them off at the NHL level.
That’s exactly what does happen, Månnu…
Werewolves today are out in daylight! Must be the global warming or unprecedented underwater seismic activity. Now that there’s no Pope, they think they are immune to ecclesiastical admonition. I scrolled through and I see a fair number of yiz are on yizzes game!
Manny, I’ve seen guys fight in men’s league action where they drop one glove to grab with and keep the glove on their swing hand so as not to break it on the opponents helmet or mask. You can pound ‘em good pretty good with a glove on.
No sunshine here today Coos.
As they improve helmets, visors, etc., brass knuckles should be allowed.
You might as well fight with your hockey gloves on to protect your hand from the other idiot’s visor.
Eventually this will be a rule too.
You can pound ‘em good pretty good with a glove on.
Are we still doing the thinly veiled wiener jokes thing?
Ain’t No Sunshine When You’re Wan.
Don’t remember now who was involved, but some years ago, a player fought without dropping the gloves and was roundly criticized for being a Mary Lou.
It does, LW? I really just assumed it was like that.
All I know is from riding dirt bikes (which is trashy I know). But I am much worse with a helmet than without. And it’s stupid but I feel impeded with the helmet. Doesn’t mean I don’t/didn’t wear one.
I think some players are the same way with visors.
Any player currently without shield who watches the super slow-mo of that play….you would think would at least reconsider their choices. Especially this team, the way they go down on the ice to block shots.
I knew, Mary Lou, we’d never part
So, hello, Mary Lou, goodbye heart
Please, never bring face cages into the NHL!
Mnny – Dirt Bikes? This isn’t Duck Dynasty
Dirt Bikes would be a good name for a fourth wing enforcer.
They’re more likely to get rid of face cages at the college and amateur level than to implement them at the NHL level. Not sure if that is smart or not, but it seems to be the way things are moving.
God. If Guys wear full cages they will have to punch each other in the Bickels during fights.
I know Ft Gy. It’s REALLY trashy but I grew up in the sticks and before licenses that is how we got around.
When you get back from riding dirt bikes, do you eat one of those hungry man frozen meals?
fourth wing? try line.
If Guys wear full cages they will have to punch each other in the Bickels during fights.
So NHL fights would become every night that I get to hang out with my old HS friends? Sounds pretty awesome.
Mistr D, IMHO, in the thinly veiled wiener joke world, pounding usually implies there is a ” willing” recipient or partner. on the other hand, rbbng 1 ..t perhaps better describes activity of s solo nature.
Cages are the way to go…not just visors….
Enough of the macho stuff…
it ain’t cool when there is no honor left in the League…
Players from the 60s and 70s are way tougher than the players of today…
Jerry Cooney would have a field day.
Players from the 60s and 70s are way tougher than the players of today…
Players from the 60s and 70s were also way smaller and slower than the players of today.
They also kept their heads up and fought like men…
3C, 1:37; eee, 2:29, doodie, 3:05, lololo
mister D said eat one
I agree – pund for pund Gordie Howe was a tough SOB, but these days he’d get pounded by some of these palookas who probably take UFC lessons all summer
Gordie v Prust would be a ppv event!
NHL Socialism…Visor for everyone.
Haha. Yea Mstr D. High School (hgh schl) hangouts (hngts) rule.
Um. NYR? Not vibin’ on that one. I still think plastic body armor does more damage than good. I can’t support making it necessary to wear a visor. I can agree it’s dumb not to. But come on. The only people that should demand they do it is their wives, siblings, children, etc.
Players of the 60 and 70’s sold cars in the off season
I think that garbage that guys used to have more respect is BS. There also used to be more fights that spill into the stands and more fights in the stands in general. Guys used to fight with sticks. Guys use to cheap shot each other into retirement.
Gordie, when asked why players wore cups, but not helmets” “You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.”
manny said come on
manny said spill into
I actually wish that MORE fights spilled into the stands
NYR fan – agreed on cages…...much needed
Love that quote, Coos.
“Fun fact of the day. Sam Rosen = Sam Rosenbloom”
For the record his family actually spells it Rosenblum.
I don’t agree on cages. Not even around a lion show. You come to a circus, you take your chances.
So long as they are pieces of garbage players like Kaleta or Rafi Torres in the league, there will be problems with respect…
It used to be : You respected your opponent because you knew they would chop your leg with a slash if you didn’t…
But they wouldn’t charge you from behind and try to make you braindead
fun fact of the day…my full name is eddie eddie eddie Redwood
dd dd dd rdwd
i have to lock mine in a cage at night as it likes to sleepwalk around the city
mnny – that sounds like a big breasted brand of oil….
Who cheap-shotted whom into retirement way back? And was it by pushing jersey numbers into the boards? If so, then it’s true the respect level was no better.
Game’s changed. Mandatory helmets and third man in changed the game. Carcillo pummeling Gabby wouldn’t of happened before the 3rd man in rule.
Manny, you’ll never stop freak accidents from happening…but that is not the sole reason why I feel players should wear cages…
Players need to wear cages because the awful culture that has taken hold in the NHL…and that is due to TOO MUCH EQUIPMENT.
I think you will always have the risk of freak accidents in the game of ice hockey…you can only try to make it safer…
If,Staalsie was wearing a visor, he would have returned to the bench and asked the equipment mgr to wipe the puck mark off.
Jst rd th blg- fnny sht tdy!! Hp crp dsnt rd2…
“Accidents will happen
They’re only hit and run
You used to be a victim now you’re not the only one
Accidents will happen
They’re only hit and run
I don’t want to hear it cause I know what I’ve done” – Elvis Costello
Flavor of the day… Today was all about man size.
Phoebe Cates – Phoebe Katz
Cary Grant – Archibald Leach
Sting – Gordon Sumner
Tony Curtis – Bernard Schwartz
Walter Matthau – Walter Matuschanskayasky
Muddy Waters – McKinley Morganfield
Manny, lost my HD Softtail Deluxe to the Sandy storm in October.
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I wouldn’t have wanted to be a linesman when there was no third man in penalty. And, take a look at some youtubes when benches would empty onto the ice. Wow.
I Misses Sippi gave Miss Souri a New Jersey, what would Dela wear?
There IS an answer!
my real name is eddie eddie eddie Schlontz
eddie is the only one in California with a hot tub that has a wang rest.
does Ida Ho?
Good evening, Carp!
Dunno, eee, when I see her, Alaska.
kooz – that dang wang crawled off an hour and I have no idea where it is
Coos, check out triple e @ 2:29, (two times)
Chances Staal looks like Bryan Berard?
Wang Rest, is that like a road stop for weary traveller?
papa bear – i never typed those words…..must have been that imposter e3
when can I go In Diana?
He can look like him, hope he don’t play like him.
Hello, PapaBear. Saw the eddie and noted at 4:34
the elimination of the instigator, and bench clearing brawls is what gives the Rinaldos, and Patchorety, of the world there courage. those days there was a price to be payed for cheap shots. I remember a big one with the Rangers and Hawks. Dave Maloney knocked down Steve Larmer just after he scored, and Jack O’Callahan cheap shotted Dave Maloney. the benches emptied big time on that one. O’Callahan payed the price.
When I am Ill, I annoy.
O hi! O
Sneeezed at Mass Sunday. ‘Achussets.’
Is Mon Tana related to Dan Tana?
I need to do some washing ton-ight
It was an imposter. Solidarity rules the night! Bring on the newbie.
I agree with Bull Dog. We have to get rid of the instigator. Immediately. The old days, that everyone loves (OLD TIME HOCKEY) the players policed the game themselves.
Is that a New York(ie) puppy?
Papa – get your garlic
Catholic to Hindu” Why Oming?
Problem with bench clearing, the pair offs can get pretty one-sided.
I laughed for five minutes straight after last night’s newbear post re: garlic, etc.
Law of Nature….survival of the fittest.
1) get at least 1 zebra off the ice
2) get rid of the instigator
3) make boarding a mandatory 5 minute major…
I think baseball should have a designated goon who can’t field or hit, but protects his pitcher when the mound is charged. :)
NYR—- I’ll have your strips for this!
NY strip?
You’re taking his dinner, Inspector?
They should play with Nerf Pucks.
Torts does not like goons, so he disguises them as hockey players.
Inspectah Deck?
I fear for the worst with Staal. I hate to say it but…I don’t think I’ve ever seen a puck to the eye like that. If he just has a broken orbital bone…he got off really lucky…just sayin’
Darn auto spell, Mr. Coos. Oh well, back to work. The criminals never sleep, nor does Clouseau.
Saw so many bad falls in Show Jumping, I couldn’t watch half the time when my young daughter approached the high fences. Like the Staal family maybe watching last night’s game.
Maybe Carolina will lend us Eric or Jarod until Marc returns.
Get rid of Nash now that his value has increased!
Sell high, buy low. Capitalist Pigs!!
Ya think Gabby can fill-in for Staalsie while he’s out. We won’t miss any offense up front.
Gaby just cannot play the boards. May as well let him float – if he will promise to keep his legs moving.
Coos, he played well last night. Keep him with Miller and Cally for few. See where it goes.
Look folks we had better get used to it. It is obvious that anyone originating between the
Rhine and the Volga ( excepting the Deutch Und Ostereichers of course), are in their own way telling us all. WE don’;t need your steeenking vowels to write or speak. We say rl together we say rl, and so dere. How bout dat?
At lease he got a few decent shots off last night. What speed and natural talent! Mystery man.
lol what in the name of Buddha ( Budaj?) did I miss this afternoon?!
If you’re going to complain about a point and 5 shots in a winning effort, you were probably going to complain no matter what.
First of all I think hamr is McCabe version 2.0 minus the loss of a draft pick.
Mcilrath, according to the organizational reports I have read in the past, is an above average skater. He isn’t mcdonut or anything, but not slow.
Of course I don’t think mdz is a very fast skater, but the announcer on the broadcast last night said mdz could really skate.
I guess there are various opinions and degrees of fast and slow skaters
Mcilrath more than likely would have been a call up this season until he knee injury. I would be quite surprised if he isn’t playing here next season.
Gabby will prob come back next year and score 40+ goals again. Between the half season, his surgery and switching to LW to start the year he’s just been fighting it since day 1. Well except for that 5 goals in 2 games thing
CABER!
CBR
Wick. McD is as technically sound a skater as there is.
fran – my favorite, the Kyrgyz Republic.
Playing here and clearing the dmn crease Wcky!
DaveLozoRangers just updated Marc Staal’s status. He was examined by two doctors and both say he will make a full recovery. He’s out indefinitely.That above is a Staal update.
?@KatieStrangESPN@ #NYR Rangers release statement that Marc Staal has made significant improvement from last night and is expected to make full recovery
stevezipayBreaking: Doctors say Marc Staal will be sidelined indefinitely but expect a full recovery
RothmanHockey#Rangers say Marc Staal was examined by two doctors, who say they expect Staal to make a full recovery. He’s out indefinitely.
RothmanHockeyFull text coming: “Following an injury suffered in last night’s game vs. Philadelphia, Marc Staal was examined today in New York by …”
“Dr. Mark Fromer, ophthalmologist, and Dr. Mendel Markowitz, maxillofacial surgeon. The injury has improved significantly…”
”... and both doctors are optimistic that Marc will make a full recovery. Staal will be sidelined indefinitely.”
Marc Staal’s to do list:
1. thank somebody that it isn’t worse.
2. buy visor.
I also think Staal will miss a similar amount of time as malhotra did
My gut tells me that Staal comes back sooner than we think.
I guess we will know the answer to that Wcky when we hear if Staal is showing up at the complex with an eye bandage or eye patch of some sort.
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Next Friday night your all invited
To dance from eight to five
All the fishes still alive
Are having a ball
Its some affair, they’ll all be there
From the herring to the whale
They’ll turn out to shake a scale
In Neptune’s Hall
Come along and follow me
To the bottom of the sea
We’ll join in the Jamboree
At the Codfish Ball
Lobsters dancing in a row
Shuffle off to Buffalo
Jelly fish sway to and fro
At the Codfish Ball
Finnan haddie leads the eel
Through an Irish reel
The catfish is a dancing man
But he can’t can-can like the sardine can
Tunas trucking left and right
Minnows mooching, what a night
There won’t be a hook in site
At the Codfish Ball
Wow! Great news! speedy recovery to Staal!
the question is whether he needs surgery or not. If he doesn’t then there is no reason why he can’t come down once he has full vision (aka when the swelling goes down)
I say he is probably out a week or two. They stepped up last year without him, they will have to again.
he doesn’t need surgery
That is great news about Staal!
5-18
27-6
4-40
Come on, Marc!
Injuries. Wow. How many can they dodge while everyone gets hurt?!
So happy to hear about #18. Seems to be a solid individual. He is a huge part of this team.
As usual, the press release is typically evasive. Now that we have Roman, we can deal.
It’ll be pretty intimidating if Staalsy is out there clearing the crease with a pirate eye patch
Arghh ye maties
Thank God staal escaped what could have been career threatening. Wishing him a speedy recovery and a quick return . Now let’s kick some fishstick ass tomorrow night!!
Seems Hamrlik gets a pretty big cap hit, as per Brooksie. If I am reading right, $3.5M. After all this, Wade Redden is looking a little better. :)
Hooray marc staal’s one eye is going to be ok
The Rise and Staal of the Roman Inquire.
Carp – Did you notice Hamrlik was playing in the NHL before JT MILLER was even born!!!
Del Zotto was 2 yrs old
McDonagh – 3yrs old
Stall – 5 yrs old
Girardi – 8 yrs old
I’m thinking it was a good pick up for experience alone.
Hemrlik & Nash have something in common. They are the only 2 players taken #1 in their draft year.
I’m thinking he will hold his own on this team come playoffs. Bickel will be called on to do some heavy lifting, just not so much to play defense.
What’s up peeps?
Matty – I thought when you are claimed off waivers the other team has to pay half his salary? Wouldn’t the caps have to take 1/2 of the hit?
Who’s the cap guru here?
Love that idea, Ft Gy. Staal needs a total p-eye-rate makeover. Way more blousy sweater, eye patch, peg leg, etc.
Yep. Capgeek says the hit is $3.5M. I wonder how the boneheads feel about this one. I don’t get it. He’s 39 and slow as molasses. He does have a shot and could be better than what we currently have on the PP point, if he has a pulse. But $3.5M????
I don’t get that at all. We are carrying so many extra d-men, it’s now silly. We now have just over $1M cap space left. Forget a trade deadline deal.
Look out – there is a giant anaconda loose and it’s toward NYC!!!
Guess Gilroy has been put on the back burner with the baked beans.
Sioux – that’s under the old CBA. There is no salary relief under this CBA. The cap hit is pro-rated though so it should be less than half. NYR should have about $6M at the deadline (see below).
TheWrageDisagree with those who says NYR lose cap flexibility w/ Hamrlik claim. Barring other moves, team can take on almost $6 mill at deadline.
Is that after the Hamrlik deal, Manny?
heading towards
One eyed former Greek League draft pick: Cy Clops.
Take a look at Capgeek.com. I’d like to say they’re inaccurate. $6M sounds great.
Yea. I apologize. I worded it wrong. The Cap Hit is the full cap hit but the salary is pro-rated.
“The Rangers assume the 38-year-old defenseman’s $3.5 million cap hit and his remaining salary. Washington gets the corresponding salary cap relief.” – Washington Post
“Hamrlik is in the final year of a two-year, $7 million contract that carries an annual average value of $3.5 million against the salary cap. New York will now be responsible for that cap hit, as well as the remaining prorated portion of the contract.” – SBNation
Any talk that Staal will be playing hockey this season again, let alone in a couple of weeks, is very premature at this point…
He is expected to make a full recovery…That is great news but let’s not get our hopes up that he’s going to be skating in April….
TheWragePlus every day under the cap you “bank” cap space towards deadline, allowing you to acquire larger cap hits.Rangers eye patches should be the next home game giveaway
I want to do it too!
First and Second Lieutenants are always under the Cap.
Thanks Mnny.
Washington isn’t going to make the playoffs this year. They are dumping salary and playing the youth. Hemrlik’s stats were good in the playoffs, he was +8, he has a shot from the point, looks like he can still play. He isn’t going to be called on to play 20-30 minutes, but if he can give 10-15 solid minutes, and help the power play, why not pick him up for leadership in the playoffs?
Gilroy will get the back burner, but you never know, lots of hockey to be played. And after last night, injuries are a part of the game, and can happen in a split second.
new post.
CAP ADVANTAGE RECAPTURE (Roberto Luongo Rule)
Teams receiving a “cap advantage” from long-term contracts — defined as seven years or more — will be penalized in the event the player retires or “defects” from the NHL before the contract expires. A team receives a “cap advantage” when the player’s actual salary exceeds his cap hit in a given year.
Following retirement/defection, the “advantage” will be “recaptured” and charged against the club’s cap in equal amounts each year until the contract expires. This penalty applies to any team that received a cap advantage from the contract — ie. a traded contract — except in the event that the trade occurred prior to the new CBA coming into place in January 2013.
The specifics of the penalty and exactly how it is calculated remain vague at this time.
http://www.capgeek.com/faq/new-cba-details.php
NEW POST MANNY
Remember the Maine, and Chris Chelios!
Staal tough as steel!!!
Patch him up, and send him out!!!
Sioux, that’s re-entry waivers (aka Avery waivers). That was abolished in the new CBA I’m told.
but this wouldn’t be re-entry waivers anyway.
Sarge Vickers was great with rebounds