A Hopeful Tuesday

by on November 7, 2012 in League News, Morning Mashup - 492 Comments

A Hopeful Tuesday
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There might have been a little somethin’ somethin’ crowding your Twitter feed last night, forcing you to miss the updates (or lack thereof.. in this case, possibly a good thing) from the latest round of NHL/NHLPA meetings. No word about what went down, but the negotiating session lasted seven hours and ended with plans to resume talks today (Wednesday).

Considering the last meeting between the two sides took about 10 minutes and preceded two weeks of stalemate, this seems to be a good sign. They’re talking at length, and a process that’s been riddled with posturing has broken for some welcomed silence and secrecy.

Perhaps a few missed paycheques and the cancelation of the Winter Classic has injected the necessary urgency to arrive at an agreement that really isn’t that far out of reach.

Or maybe I’m just brimming with hope after last night.

Wednesday morning links…

The NHL could learn something from the U.S. Elections
Graphic Comments with another beauty at The Hockey Nation network. This is Shitty_Watercolour-level awesome (Redditors?)

Tyler Biggs had a +10 CORSI on Friday
Biggs getting some love from unlikely sources.

The Leaf Legacy Series
Michael Langlois with some nice reads on Leafs history. Better than watching KHL highlights, I say.

Not even Hurricane looters want Leafs hats
Hey, someone found a Leafs joke in the Hurricane Sandy disaster.

NHL, players meet in secrecy

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  • rustynail

    Blue Chip Prospects ‏@bcphockeyblog
    Reilly creates an awful lot of chances. Have to wonder what his point totals would be like if his teammates didn’t suck so hard

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  • jcg_4

    those contracts were signed knowing that there would be a new cba with new links

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  • Yaknowwhat

    5 to 2 now for QMJHL over Russians..

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  • wiski

    Revenge for the shit show the gave us last time. Looks like a pretty good line for the juniors Hube mac and dru.

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  • JVR

    That’s one thing I’m not sure what they’d do about.

    They’ll obviously be adding more games to each team’s schedule to get all teams up to an equal 70 game schedule.  Also, you can bet on the All-Star game being cancelled as well.

    Not sure if they’d just squeeze more games into the existing schedule or completely redo the whole damn thing.

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  • wiski

    I think I heard they were looking at 68 games.

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  • Yaknowwhat

    Yeh..thats my point..its not that simple to just hit the ground running with the current schedule…and some teams are sure to be unhappy with the new schedule…home games?? road games?? how many times they are playing the tougher teams??

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  • Zombie27

    My answer would be speak to your owner as to why it has been changed

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  • wiski

    New thread up
    http://mapleleafshotstove.com/2012/11/07/leafs-prospect-update-november-7th/

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  • Yaknowwhat

    Thing is…I’m sure alot of the arena’s don’t have that much flexibility…they will have NBA dates..and concert dates already booked and built around the original schedule..so maybe..they have to try and keep it very similar..

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  • Damian

    Russians LOSE!  

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  • JVR

    That’s why I’m guessing they’ll just leave the schedule how it is and add in the odd game when there are openings at the arenas.

    For example, if the Leafs have a light week where they are only schedule to play home games on Tuesday and Saturday night (their traditional home game nights) they could throw a road game in on Thursday night.

    Also, by cancelling the All-Star game, I’m sure teams would be able to add a game or two to their schedules that weekend.

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  • http://www.hockey-nerd.com Cameron

    Going to leave this here as not to derail another thread.  This map shows the correlation between voting partisanship and education which I spoke to earlier.  As I said then, it’s not branding, it’s just the reality of the situation:
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    http://cs702.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/map-of-us-2012-presidential-election-results-versus-location-of-top-ranked-us-universities/

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  • Bob’s your uncle

    lol   I think he made it pretty clear that he was planning to update.

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  • The Shrike

    The education level of the people who ran up $16+ trillion in debt is significantly higher than that of the average voter. That’s the reality of the situation that actually matters.

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  • http://www.hockey-nerd.com Cameron

    Most of the debt was ran up by Bush and his cronies – a fact conveniently forgotten by most GOP supporters.  I don’t know if Bush is smart enough to tie his own shoes much less run a country.  Unquestionably the worst President in the history of the Nation, and I would argue, least educated.  If you’ve read about the man, it’s clear that while he might have a top notch degree, he spent his university years drinking and snorting cocaine, and being handed accolades because of his name. 

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  • The Shrike

    WRONG

    Debt added (in trillions):

    G.W.Bush (8 years) = $5.038
    Obama (4 years) = $5.157

    Those are the facts, Hopey added more debt in 4 years, than Shrub did in 8.

    The U.S needs, at the very least, a president who can add and subtract.

    They haven’t had that in a long, long time.

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