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In a previous thread we got carried away and started wondering, out loud, in HTML, if regular thread contributers from across the country would like to join the fray and start posting here.

It's one of those things that, when you wake up in the middle of the night to help your youngest get over a bad dream, you then lie in bed staring up at the ceiling, smacking yourself on the forehead, muttering.....what the heck was I thinking?

Then, this morning in the cold hard light of day (a fine, sunny, early spring Vancouver morning I might add) was perusing one such thread, the one about the 'Curse of the Betting Man', and noticed that we had interesting perspectives from Quebec, Saskatchewan and B.C. which is pretty representative of Canuckistan, 'eh?

So without further ado, here is that conversation between eteba, lenin's ghost, and myself on The End of the World As We Know It (And We Feel Fine, by the way....feel free to add to the conversation on the new thread below)

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Na Na Na Na/Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Hey/ Goodbye (Steam) p.s. R.I.P. N.H.L. . eteba | 02.18.05 - 5:07 am | #

Would it really be such a bad thing? I'm not so sure. RossK | Email | Homepage | 02.18.05 - 10:48 am | #

rossK, I would see a league where fans are interested in hockey.The original 6 teams with the addition of Minnesota and Philly.In Canada,Winnipeg and Quebec city would join Vancouver to complete a north american division. In europe i would put teams in Prague,Moscow,Helsinki and Stockholm. Today with jumbo jets road trips are not a problem. . eteba | 02.18.05 - 12:47 pm | #

In fact, it's easier to fly to Prague than Nashville Tenessee. Me - I wanna see the Trail Smoke Eaters in the tourney in 2007. RossK | Email | Homepage | 02.18.05 - 1:07 pm | #

good ideas.....stay out until there are 12 or less teams. the players should start their own league. pro hockey should be divided more like soccer divisions with possibly 12 teams in the first division. about 10 years ago, i was talking hockey with a russian fellow. he told me his home town team about 100 kms outside moscow would be in the top division one year, do poorly, and be relegated to div 2. he loved it. he said that in one year his team had a shot at the div 2 title and if his team moved up he would get to see great hockey players in div 1. he thought it to be the best of both worlds. comments? lenin's ghost | 02.19.05 - 3:55 am | #

I like it LG-- Would give everybody more, and more affordable, hockey to watch. Of course the greedheads would hate it, especially the TV greeders, because if people are in the rink their not in front of the tube. You know....it's Sat am right now and all this stuff is swirling around the $45mill cap mark.....but I don't want them to settle now, because I've already embraced the possiblility of big change regardless what it turns out to be. RossK | Email | Homepage | 02.19.05 - 11:42 am | #

yeah, ross. silly me. if its good for the fans, it ain't gonna happen. i hope it goes on for a couple of years and forces out the sunbelt teams. hell........it still feels wrong to play hockey here on the west coast with these warm temps. i grew up playing on natural ice. playing hockey when nature allows it, well.....just seems natural to me. hmmmmm....go figure... lenin's ghost | 02.20.05 - 2:40 am | #

lg-- Grew up on the left coast, in Victoria, at a time when there were only three sheets of ice in the entire city. So, for me hockey is scratchy eyes, queazy stomach and riding bike in the rain, ghost-like in the middle of the night down Pandora Ave, pads on, skates and gloves on handlebars, stick over shoulder at 3am on a Sunday morning. May not have been freezing our buns off, but dedication nonetheless. And of course, that's what the greedheads forget, especially those down south - the game is not just another choice between Billiards on ESPN-10 and Celebrity Poker on Bravo for us. It's something more. Way more. RossK | Email | Homepage | 02.20.05 - 11:19 am |