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  1. UMFan83
    Well I am not sure, but like mentioned above they were the entire NHL for a ~25 year span so most older people (65+ years old), grew up with those teams only. For some reason, the majority of those teams claim a ton of tradition and very little change in logos, uniforms and colors. Besides the Hawks and Rangers, they all have a ton of championships too. When you think about it, there are only 14 NHL franchises that pre-date the 1979 WHA merger and have stayed in the same city since then. In reality there should be an original 14: Chicago Blackhawks Detroit Red Wings Toronto Maple Leafs Montreal Canadiens Boston Bruins New York Rangers St. Louis Blues Los Angeles Kings Vancouver Canucks Philadelphia Flyers Pittsburgh Penguins Buffalo Sabres Washington Capitals New York Islanders For historical purposes, the Kings, Canucks, Sabres, Capitals and Islanders have drastically changed their logos/color schemes since their inception making them seem slightly less historical. People love the idea of going to a hockey game or watching one on TV and seeing the teams in the exact same jerseys as they were wearing 30+ years ago. Theres something very old timey about that I guess.
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    On this subject, I was listening to the Score yesterday (1st mistake) and a guy called in and was asking if it was possible to send some of the Cubs down to the minors "to show that the Cubs management means business" or whatever. So whoever the host was (Holmes?) was humoring him and asked him who he'd send down if he could and his answers were......... Carlos Zambrano and Derrek Lee. When the host questioned him on it he gave the typical Z has a screw loose and doesn't care about winning or something. And when he asked about Lee, the caller admitted how much of a class act Lee has been, and that he would never want to embarrass Lee, but sending him down to the minors was the right move to show the team that they aren't going to put up with poor play.
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    This is confusing....the teams who had the longest pennant droughts in 1990, have gone 8-0 in world series games once they got there? The Red Sox didn't have a drought after they swept in '04, so all that enormous pressure they felt with the curse was gone, allowing them to sweep the '08 world series The Phillies won the 08 World Series? But yeah obviously that's what happened. Cowboy up and Kevin Millar got the Red Sox through it while Don't stop believing and AJ Pierzynski's dropped 3rd strike play got the White Sox through it. I think the Cubs need Joe Esposito's "You're the best around" and Julio Zuleta back as pitching coach with his slump busting techniques to get us over the hump.
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    This is confusing....the teams who had the longest pennant droughts in 1990, have gone 8-0 in world series games once they got there? The Cubs (0-0), White Sox (4-0)...and who else? The only other team to make one WS appearance between 1990 and 2010, or sweep their first WS appearance post-1990 was the 1990 Reds, who went 4-0 after a 14 year drought (1976) inbetween pennants. Were the Reds really the 3rd longest pennant drought in the league in 1990? I figured he was talking about the Red Sox and White Sox, not sure why he is using a 20 year time frame, an 8-0 record and a 3 team grouping. Oh and what really threw me off was pennant drought, which historically means winning the league and advancing to the World Series. I should have realized that's what he meant.
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    This is confusing....the teams who had the longest pennant droughts in 1990, have gone 8-0 in world series games once they got there? The Cubs (0-0), White Sox (4-0)...and who else? The only other team to make one WS appearance between 1990 and 2010, or sweep their first WS appearance post-1990 was the 1990 Reds, who went 4-0 after a 14 year drought (1976) inbetween pennants. Were the Reds really the 3rd longest pennant drought in the league in 1990? Edit: no, the Indians went from 1954-1995 without winning the pennant, and the Braves went from 1958-1991
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    Do people understand that spending money on Wrigley Field's bathrooms doesn't affect the payroll in the slightest bit. He's not saying "Hmm we could sign a better SS, but I'm not gonna lie, I'm a big Cubs fan but I'm an even bigger bathroom guy. I could not live with myself knowing that my fellow Cubs fans are using such shoddy facilities. I'll work on winning next year I guess.....unless there are more bathroom improvements to make!"
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    The general feeling that I have is that Ricketts has enough money to safely run a ballclub with a $140 mil payroll, but when attendance sags down to 30,000 a game (not saying its there or could ever get there without multiple down years), I think his margins get a lot tighter and maybe the payroll drops $30 mil or something. So I am not sure why people think that not going to games is going to "show ricketts" anything. I generally believe he wants to win and will show it when he has an opportunity to. But he can't and won't spend $160+ million to do so. So there was nothing he could do this year, other than maybe fire Hendry, which we'd all love. More importantly than that, I'd love to clean the entire front office out and start over. If you want to start fresh and really signal a new era of Cubs baseball, doing that would be much more effective than buying a few ballplayers.
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    Games that stick out for me 10/7 @ Colorado - First game of season 10/9 vs. Detroit - Home opener/Banner raising night 10/13 vs. Nashville - First game against Nashville after playoff series 10/20 vs. Vancouver - First game against Vancouver after playoff series 11/1 @ NY Rangers - O6 team 11/24 @ San Jose - First game against San Jose after playoff series 1/23 vs. Philadelphia - Only SCF rematch of the year 3/5 @ Toronto - O6 team 3/13 @ Washington - Revenge against Ovechkin? 3/29 @ Boston - O6 team 4/5 @ Montreal - O6 team....no O6ers at home besides Detroit this year damn. 4/8&4/10 @ Detroit/vs. Detroit - Our typical home and home against Detroit to end the season. Playoff positioning.
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    Niemi, or Huet? What would sending Niemi down accomplish? Obviously meant Huet. I'm brain dead today.
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    The same thing was said about the Red Sox. Yeah but they were able to Cowboy Up. What could we possibly do to match that?
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    France got one point - they tied Uruguay. Duh....my bad.
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    Well it would be fun to root for, but at least it would be nice to see RSA go home with a win, and France go home with 0 points and 1 goal scored all tournament. That would have to put them close to 32nd out of 32, but I think North Korea will probably win that designation.
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    Dammit
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    Capgeek isn't working for me right now, but I think that roster is doable *if* the players vote the escalator in and *if* Niemi and Hjalmarsson sign a little on the cheap side of projections. I'm assuming Niemi has to be sent to the minors or to the KHL to make that happen...or is that a foregone conclusion at this point?
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    If you made a $100 bet that France's coach would be fired after the World Cup, how much would you get back if he was? $5?
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    you may have lebron james field, but we have lebron james speedway This is getting silly.
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    Dammit so Carlos Silva is the reason we suck.
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    Saturday in October? Boo Tailgating in the morning, watch your Hawkeyes at 11, then drink your way til 7PM, Hawks raise the banner! I just hope it doesn't conflict with a Cubs playoff game. ha ha ha HA.
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    I'm excited about the final matches of group play starting today, but today's is kinda meh, as there is only really 1 spot to be decided, that being runner up in Group B. Although I guess it will be interesting to see how France comes out today with all the drama and the desperate need to score 3+ goals when they haven't scored one all tournament.
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    In an ideal offseason, if we could get under the cap and keep these players, I'd be ecstatic: Kane Toews Sharp Hossa Keith Seabrook Hammer Soupy Niemi Bolland --------prospects Beach Lalonde Obviously I'd like to keep other guys who are almost definitely going to be here like Brouwer, either Versteeg or Buff, Fraser, Kopecky, but if we could somehow finish this offseason with the above guys, I think we'd be contenders in the West again. Maybe not the team that certain experts claimed are "so much better than every other team in the league", but good enough that it wouldn't be a shock to see them go for a repeat. The West is so good though, I felt like the margin between teams like Vancouver, Detroit and San Jose and the Hawks is not as big as we liked to believe last year. Also teams like Colorado are going to be a concern, depending on what they do with their cap space.
  21. UMFan83
    Kaberle is as good as Campbell, and his contract would disappear next season, giving the the Hawks a season to groom some dmen for a 2nd pairing role. The huge dropoff would be at forward. I am not saying this is a good player deal for the Hawks, but if they can unload Campbells contract and get a top 4 dman back for next season, it is a good deal in my eyes. Crap, I should have used quotes. That reply was meant for Sulley. I'd be ok with that, although ideally we could keep our top 2 defensive lines in tact. But I realize how bad Campbell's deal is and how fortunate we'd be to rid ourselves of it.
  22. UMFan83
    Thank you schedule makers!!!! The Blackhawks will raise their championship banner in their home opener next year against......................................THE DETROIT RED WINGS on October 9th. They open the season at Colorado on Oct 7. That means only 107 more days until the season begins.
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    You want to just drop one of your top 4 defensemen and get nothing in return? I mean if you said "you can make Campbell's contract disappear right now" I'd have to strongly consider it. But I'd rather see if we can get something, being a pick, a prospect, or a minimum salary roster filler for him.
  24. UMFan83
    He still worked 2 matches too many.
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    OK, this started off making sense, and then ended up like 30 different kinds of crazy. I hope people know that the bottom paragraph is in jest. If that situation were to occur, I would obviously feel pretty confident. My point was that it would take more than other teams I follow to believe that they are going to actually win the title. And the other thing is, I say this now but if the Cubs actually won the pennant, I'd be cocky and probably expect the cubs to win it. But sitting here so far away from the prize, and remembering all the disappointments of the last decade, it's a little harder to rationalize. Id say there's probably a 60% chance that the Cubs win in my lifetime, taking into account the Cubs front office, a possible early tragic death, a world war that puts baseball on hiatus, a huge economic crisis that causes the MLB to go bankrupt and the Cubs ceasing to exist, and other unknowns. Assuming I live to at least 80 and the Cubs are around for every one of those years, I'd say closer to 75-80. They have to luck into it one year.
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