May 08, 2004
Hockey History - Expansion
The National Hockey League had survived many years with teams being created and fading away, but the "original six" always survived. They were:
Boston Bruins
Chicago Blackhawks
Detroit Red Wings
Montreal Canadiens
New York Rangers
Toronto Maple Leafs
In 1967, the NHL gambled on a major expansion and doubled their size to 12 teams. In the extended entry is a list of those teams, along with pictures of their original sweaters.
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Didn't Charles Schultz do some of the artwork for the Seals? I remember seeing a logo on souvenirs that looked more like a seal from Peanuts and less like that crazy stylized thing (which always looked like a fish to me.)
Posted by: Nic at May 08, 2004 03:48 PM (16A49)
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I don't remember that, but it's entirely possible. He was from just north of the Bay Area, in Santa Rosa. My folks lived there for years, it's a beautiful area.
Posted by: Ted at May 08, 2004 05:44 PM (ZjSa7)
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A minor thing...
If I am not mistaken, Los Angeles changed its colors in 1988, but to silver and black only. The purple was retired altogether. Then, the year before they moved into Staples (1999?), the purple came back, but the silver and black stayed.
Posted by: Scott at May 10, 2004 10:29 AM (zL4bg)
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1998 saw a new wave of expansion of the NHL. Nashville was selected as one of the new cities. Native Tennesseans don't grow up with hockey (period). We learn the basics of Basketball, baseball, and Football. We tend to tolerate basketball/baseball until football comes back. Hockey vocabulary isn't taught/supported in the home.
I have been a Predator fan since I saw the inagural game back in 1998. I have looked at hockey as outsider for the last six years and have come to understand a few things. I understand that Hockey suffers from a lack of funding that might see a lockout/strike next year. Hockey needs an increase in Television revenue and that will only happen when the networks increase the "newbie" factor in the broadcast commentary. Hockey rules/strategy is not basic to most of American Culture like it is around the "orginal six" cities.
Along those same line, Hockey vocabulary needs to be explained to those who don't know what biscit, top shelf, five hole, or a blue line is. Somethings aren't as aparent like the difference between a wrist or slap shot. Then there are the more obscured, but vital words like a checking line. In this age of instant information the "orgianal six" tend to ignore the obvious that they have developed a language all of their own.
The second thing that the broadcasters need to improve upon is the number of cameras covering the game. How many times durring an NFL or NASCAR event that there wasn't a camera angle avilable to show fowl/accident/excitment? Why is it extreamely better to go see a live hockey game than a Televised game? There are disparities between the two that need to be adressed before the NHL will compete effectively with the NHL.
I would have thought that the fans of the "original six" would seek to convert anyone into a fan instead of this elitist mentality that only they should have hockey. I will be bitterly disappointed if there isn't hockey next season because the elitist have propagated the phrase "watered down hockey" to the point that not even the die-hard fans watch anymore.
Posted by: Mark at May 10, 2004 08:25 PM (bzVXr)
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Scott, that makes sense. I was trying to figure out when the purple came in, because I remembered the Kings as being black, white and silver only.
Mark, excellent points! I'm going to use them as the basis of a new post, because I think it might get too long for the comments.
Posted by: Ted at May 10, 2004 08:43 PM (ZjSa7)
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Thank you. I would like to add one more point: Hockey (the game) isn't about compromise. It's about giving everything you have to decimate your opposition. The "orginal six" debate follows the classical lines of the game; brutal honest contests between skill, and force.
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May 07, 2004
Overheard
I caught this exchange between
Mookie and my wife.
Mookie: "What is dad's problem? He just chewed me out for nothing."
Mom: "He's grouchy. Hockey playoffs are on, so he'll be short of sleep for a couple of months."
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C'mon Ted the playoffs are not that big a deal!!
You should get Mookie interested in the hockey. Then you and her could blog predictions against each other.
BTW: The playoffs have only ceased to be a big deal since the Leafs bowed out.
GO Sharks GO!!
Posted by: The Meatriarchy at May 07, 2004 08:25 AM (cYRBs)
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It's a male version of PMS.
Posted by: Victor at May 07, 2004 09:18 AM (L3qPK)
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I wondered how you managed to watch west coast games and get up at 4:30 am...
Posted by: Nic at May 07, 2004 12:06 PM (JijW0)
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Mookie is sports-impaired. Zero interest.
Naps, Nic. I love naps. Gimme a half-hour and I'm good until midnight. Two hours and I don't need to go to bed at all.
Posted by: Ted at May 07, 2004 02:12 PM (ZjSa7)
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LOL!!! Isn't the time between the last regular game to the first playoff game called the mid-season break?!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 07, 2004 07:20 PM (KXBB0)
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Paperback Wisdom
Nic offered up this link: online
Pulp Fiction Greeting Cards. Too cool!
Snippets from the covers of dimestore novels.
"Shock trooper in the battle of the sexes!" -- Lust for a Green Beret
"Chuck Merrick, private eye, and the girl with the .32 gun and the 36" chest." -- Girl In A Jam
"A novel of temptation - and primitive passions" and
"She was his property: to keep, to beat, to use." -- Cracker Girl
"Trapped on a planet of peril, he dared challenge its monster ruler" -- An Earth Man on Venus
"High-voltage sex and spying" -- I Was A Teeny-Bopper For The CIA
"She was as tough as the hoods she worked with - until she met a man who made her feel like a woman" -- Syndicate Girl
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I'm politically incorrect enough to laugh at this
Seen in a bathroom stall:
You can't beat good pussy.
Underneath, in different handwriting:
Sure you can, just ask Ike Turner.
For more assorted scribbles and scrawls on the restroom walls, go check out The Writing on the Stall.
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Me, too! Thanks for the link.
Posted by: Random Penseur at May 07, 2004 01:33 PM (LlPKh)
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15 years ago or so I had a co-working named Rick who always talked on and on about how he was gonna be rich someday (though he had no plan for it -- I think he played the lottery alot) and drive a Rolls-Royce. "...when I get my Rolls...", "Yeah, just wait to me in my Rolls..." he'd often say.
So I was sitting in the men's room stall one day and glanced over at the two spools - side by side - of t.p.
Pointing to them were two arrows that ran from the words - scribbled in marker ink - "Rick's Rolls".
I nearly shit!!! Oh wait...
Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 07, 2004 07:30 PM (KXBB0)
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Once, in a rest stop in Ohio, I saw an incription on the bottom of the stall door. It was in small print, and I had to bend over to read it. It said, "You are at a 45 degree angle."
I didn't expect to see that kind of off-beat humor.
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May 06, 2004
And the peasants rejoiced...
Rachel Lucas is making noises about coming back.
Spork, I'm speechless.
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This is the coolest, ain't it?! All we gotta do is yammer on about how we miss her site and she comes back sobbing happily, amazed at the revelation that she is being missed!
There's an old lesson here, I guess: Just tell 'em you love 'em -- otherwise they may never know!!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 06, 2004 08:54 PM (FsDiJ)
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Handy Tips for Men
This is a handy guide that should be as common as a driver's license in the wallet of every husband, boyfriend, or neighbor!!
DANGEROUS: What's for dinner?
SAFER: Can I help you with dinner?
SAFEST: Where would you like to go for dinner?
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.
DANGEROUS: Are you wearing that?
SAFER: Gee, you look good in brown.
SAFEST: WOW! Look at you!
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.
DANGEROUS: What are you so worked up about?
SAFER: Could we be overreacting?
SAFEST: Here's fifty dollars.
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.
DANGEROUS: Should you be eating that?
SAFER: You know, there are a lot of apples left.
SAFEST: Can I get you a glass of wine with that?
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.
DANGEROUS: What did you do all day?
SAFER: I hope you didn't overdo it today.
SAFEST: I've always loved you in that robe!
ULTRASAFE: Here, have some chocolate.
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Posted by: Key at May 06, 2004 06:54 PM (Tq1a4)
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So very, very true. As the great Homer Simpson once said, "Women: can't live with 'em... pass the beernuts."
Posted by: House of Payne at May 06, 2004 07:34 PM (KA8kD)
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LOL!! Your great at stuff like this! I still send "Rules For Dating My Daughter" to friends with daughters (or sons)!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 06, 2004 09:02 PM (FsDiJ)
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Wish I could take credit for this one, but I found it on my rocketry newsgroup.
Posted by: Ted at May 07, 2004 07:16 AM (blNMI)
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That is so not true.
I don't even like chocolate.
Posted by: Blogeline at May 07, 2004 08:39 AM (O27QY)
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Say Hey!
Happy Birthday to the
greatest baseball player who ever lived -
Willie Mays.
"The Catch". That's all I've got to say.
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Kudos and a Happy B'Day to Mr Mays, the Greatest Living Baseball Player!
Has his God-son suprpassed him? I would make a case for Bonds if he can hit .400 this season. What else would he have left to accomplish individually except 756?
As to the greatest of all time? I think the discussion should ALWAYS start at Ruth.
Posted by: Madfish Willie at May 06, 2004 10:53 PM (LbKVB)
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This one is strictly a gut-call. I grew up watching the senior Bonds and Mays. Barry Bonds is great, but for me, Willie will always be #1. SI did a bit on the greatest of all time a year or two ago, and Willie Mays came in #2 to Babe Ruth.
Posted by: Ted at May 07, 2004 01:37 PM (ZjSa7)
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Cap'n, there be whales here!
Science
reported and discussed with a sense of humor:
The humpback whale is believed to sing its mysterious songs for the same reason generations of teens have started bad garage bands: to get girls.
The findings undermine long-held assumptions about humpback behavior, said whale biologist Phillip Clapham of the Northeast Fishery Sciences Center, co-author of a paper on the singing in the current issue of Proceedings Royal Society, Biology.
"It tells us whales don't read the text books, which is really annoying," he said.
Humpbacks have a range that covers eight octaves, from a bass so low that humans can't hear it to a magnificent soprano, Clark said. Their highly structured songs include multiple themes that are constantly repeated and even rhyme.
The songs last up to 30 minutes, and the whales embellish like jazz musicians, seeing "who can improvise in some attractive way better than the other (whale)," Clark said.
Everything I knew about humpback whales I learned from Star Trek.
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As I commented at Ace's Place, and should have more properly commented here, the money-shot in the article was:
"It tells us whales don't read the text books, which is really annoying," he said.
Priceless.
Posted by: Patton at May 07, 2004 01:53 AM (cLlFA)
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I had no idea Dawn worked where I do
ROFLMAO
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.0001% less chance of nuclear winter
Note: my link for this has expired. Here's an alternate that
still works, but it references the
same dead link I had. In the meantime, here a quote from the original source:
"Thus, if the Minuteman III ICBMs have to be used in some future nuclear war, their rocket motors will not pollute the atmosphere. EPA regulations do not apply in foreign countries, so no changes are being made to reduce the harmful environmental effects of the nuclear warheads"
That's right folks, Uncle Sam's ICBM arsenal is now more environmentally friendly because their propulsion has been reworked in order to meet EPA regulations.
Update: The 'dead' link works again.
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May 05, 2004
I'm getting a little tired of the same six Egypt shows on The History Channel
The
Scream network. All horror, all the time. Sounds like 'must see' TV to me!
Thanks to Bad State of Gruntledness for the pointer.
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It *better* be offered by DirecTV. It might have to be the first premium channel I pay for!
Posted by: Victor at May 05, 2004 02:45 PM (L3qPK)
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Oh, and congratulations to the Sharks--tho I think Calgary might put up a pretty good fight. No need to respond; you haven't really talked about the Sharks so far, and there's no need to tempt fate.
Posted by: Victor at May 05, 2004 02:47 PM (L3qPK)
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Oh, it's not that I'm afraid of jinxing my Sharks, but in the playoffs anyone can beat anyone, and I eat enough foot without looking for the chance.
Posted by: Ted at May 05, 2004 03:56 PM (ZjSa7)
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I like the egypt shows!
Posted by: Mookie at May 05, 2004 09:01 PM (ZjSa7)
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They fly like girls
But the important thing is, they
fly.
Here's a nice newspaper article from King County in Washington state, talking about an all-girl team that's going to the finals of the Team America Rocketry Challenge.
Those finals are being held on May 22, 2004 at Great Meadows, The Plains, Virginia. Open to the public.
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Another new blogroll member (updated)
Patton has been a regular in the comments over at the
Ministry of Minor Perfidy for quite some time, and he seems like a reasonable sort, so it's nice to find that he now has his
own blog.
Welcome.
Update: While looking at the ecosystem (for the first time in a long time) I found a couple of other 'rocket' blogs, so here ya go.
Republican Atheist Rocket Scientist Man - sounds like a bio.
Ok, so this guy has been on the 'roll for a while now. Give a visit, because we all enjoy a few extra site hits: Rocketsled to Hell.
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You're too kind. The best I can offer in return, other than continuting to enjoy your site, is a bit of reciprocity.
Posted by: Patton at May 07, 2004 01:41 AM (cLlFA)
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(uh, I could also offer to "continute" type gooder)
Posted by: Patton at May 07, 2004 01:42 AM (cLlFA)
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New Tagline
Over on the right column, just above the
tagline archive. Sometimes I'm just too darn organized.
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May 04, 2004
Another great laugh...
... and this time, non-hockey fans will get it.
Thanks to Rodger, of Curmudgeonly & Skeptical fame, for this one.
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Blogging will be insufferably upbeat for the rest of the day
I interviewed for a new position Wednesday last, and have been waiting on pins and needles for word.
Yay Me!
No real details yet other than that I'll be staying with my current company, but working in another location.
And I need to do some digging and learn about Web Services. This is going to be serious fun.
Thanks for all the support, my friends. You people rock!
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Posted by: Blogeline at May 04, 2004 12:02 PM (O27QY)
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AwwRIGHT! The good guys win one!
Remember that Web services architecture I was talking about? Start your research here: www.sysmanagement.com. Aquifer is a heck of a package, and if you can show it to your new bosses, it could impress them with your mad skillz as well as cleaning up their database compatibility problems. And it'll make your life easier too.
Congrats, dude. It's no less than you deserve.
Posted by: Doug Pratt at May 04, 2004 12:12 PM (D6ZyB)
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Posted by: Simon at May 05, 2004 01:53 AM (GWTmv)
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WOO HOO!!! Just keep writing them kick-ass memos that the CEOs love and you'll be great!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 05, 2004 09:40 PM (9VAcu)
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Sounds fun! We'll be waiting for updates! Yee haw!
Posted by: Dawn at May 05, 2004 10:27 PM (Ev/7m)
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There's something disturbing about people like this
Not only do they concoct the most gruesome confections like the anatomically correct
thorax cake, but
they review my kind of movies, and give ratings from one to five severed thumbs.
Welcome to my blogroll.
Thanks to Matt for the pointer, and also for one of the funniest posts I've read in a long time.
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Bastards! They gave "Attack of the Giant Leeches" only one severed thumb! It rates at least two severed thumbs!
Man, I gotta try to make one of those cakes.
Posted by: Victor at May 04, 2004 03:48 PM (L3qPK)
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Ribbons, Military, Mine
Rob posted the medals he was awarded while in the Navy, and
Wind Rider put up his collection as well. Here are my modest awards, plus a couple of other bits that I'm proud of.
(in the extended entry)
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Too bad we couldn't get additional clusters for the marksmanship ribbon. I had the same four qualifications! (That 860 shotgun thing made my bicep black & blue for a month, though!)
Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 04, 2004 02:01 AM (HCv3/)
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Ah, Grand Forks and the Old SAC crest. Here is a man that knows the answer to the age old question -
How many rivets ARE visible on a B-52!
(For National Security Reasons, don't answer that one, Ted)
Posted by: Wind Rider at May 04, 2004 06:55 AM (X5gsh)
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Too funny, my husband is at DLA right now.
Posted by: Blogeline at May 04, 2004 09:03 AM (O27QY)
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nice. i was in AFCC before it was a major command. back then it was called Air Force Communications Service (AFCS), and we joked that it stood for Alcohol First, Communications Second.
Posted by: chris hall at May 04, 2004 09:55 AM (zH1Gw)
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May 03, 2004
Silver Lining
Yeah, it sucks to crash a rocket. On the other hand, it gives me an excuse to build another.
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Cow Rocket II: Bigger and bolder than ever! Lemme know if 'need print-oits of the banners...!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at May 04, 2004 02:22 AM (HCv3/)
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oits=outs, of course.
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You may be able to re-use a fin--or is that considered Bad Luck amongst the rocketeers?
Posted by: Victor at May 04, 2004 07:31 AM (L3qPK)
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I salvage pieces all the time, but this time the only reusable bits are the eyebolts, quicklinks, tubular nylon harness and parachute. The rest is toast.
Posted by: Ted at May 04, 2004 08:35 AM (blNMI)
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Nylon? You don't need no steenking nylon when you can use Tubular Kevlar! Whatcha got in the inventory? I've got plenty of parts sitting around that'll never get used. I could send them to you along with a new product I want you to beta-test: the Waterproof MicroBeacon! (chortle)
Posted by: Doug Pratt at May 04, 2004 11:14 AM (D6ZyB)
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Well Doug, based on this morning's great news, I just happen to have the parts all ready to go for a 4" diameter Yellow Jacket upscale that'll be perfect for Level 2 on a SkyRipper J.
BTW, it's getting dim, but as of this morning the beacon was still flashing.
Posted by: Ted at May 04, 2004 11:20 AM (blNMI)
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Most excellent. If the SkyRippers don't have Tripoli cert by the time you're ready, I'll gladly lend you a ProPoly J160. We've flown that motor a lot, as well as the shorter I140 version, and it always satisfies. Are you building with a 54mm motor mount? I recommend it; it lets you use a vented adapter for 36mm motors.
Posted by: Doug Pratt at May 04, 2004 12:15 PM (D6ZyB)
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