2014-2015 Hockey Season

[@realAzhyaAryola]

Neither can I, Fash, but I'm watching the game. I enjoy it.

[Anonymous]

Neither can I, Fash, but I'm watching the game. I enjoy it.

And that is all that matters Azhya.

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[@realAzhyaAryola]

Sheesh, no game 'til Thursday. ac_dunno

[Anonymous]

Sheesh, no game 'til Thursday. ac_dunno

Thursday will come soon Azhya.

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[Romero]

Tomorrow is the hundredth anniversary of the Vancouver Millionaires Stanley Cup win!



Few people know that a Vancouver hockey team has won the Stanley Cup (geez, it was only a hundred years ago), but even fewer people know that it changed hockey into what it is today.

At the dawn of the last century, hockey visionaries Frank and Lester Patrick headed West and gambled everything. Great players in the National Hockey Association, they had become frustrated with the slow, grinding game played in the eastern-based league. They sold the family business, and moved to Vancouver with a new vision for hockey that would change our game forever.



In 1912 they founded a new league on the West Coast, built huge new arenas, and revolutionized our game to showcase speed and creativity. They introduced forward passing, the blue line, line changes, delayed penalties, and the penalty shot. They placed numbers on players' sweaters, introduced the scoring concept of assists and allowed goaltenders to leave their feet to make a save. They created the first playoff system in North American sports, the one we still use today. This was the birth of modern hockey. And it all happened right here.



The 10,500-seat Denman Arena, the world's largest ice rink at the time, played host to the first-ever official playoffs for the Stanley Cup. The Pacific Coast Champion Vancouver Millionaires, led by superstar Fred "Cyclone" Taylor, would face off in a best-of-five series against the NHA champion Ottawa Senators.



There was no parade, no on-ice presentation. The Senators, so confident they would easily dispatch the upstart Millionaires, had not even brought the Stanley Cup with them to Vancouver. After the final game, the exhausted and defeated Senators crowded into the Millionaires dressing room to congratulate them. The new style of hockey had beaten the old.



http://canucks.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=86493">//http://canucks.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=86493

The Denman Arena was also the first in Canada to have artificially frozen ice. It was lost to fire in 1936.



http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_qLRxkFOBB8/UzR6_AXtzkI/AAAAAAAAreU/qHLks48DjhU/s1600/DenmanArena.jpg">

[Anonymous]

Tomorrow is the hundredth anniversary of the Vancouver Millionaires Stanley Cup win!



Few people know that a Vancouver hockey team has won the Stanley Cup (geez, it was only a hundred years ago), but even fewer people know that it changed hockey into what it is today.

At the dawn of the last century, hockey visionaries Frank and Lester Patrick headed West and gambled everything. Great players in the National Hockey Association, they had become frustrated with the slow, grinding game played in the eastern-based league. They sold the family business, and moved to Vancouver with a new vision for hockey that would change our game forever.



In 1912 they founded a new league on the West Coast, built huge new arenas, and revolutionized our game to showcase speed and creativity. They introduced forward passing, the blue line, line changes, delayed penalties, and the penalty shot. They placed numbers on players' sweaters, introduced the scoring concept of assists and allowed goaltenders to leave their feet to make a save. They created the first playoff system in North American sports, the one we still use today. This was the birth of modern hockey. And it all happened right here.



The 10,500-seat Denman Arena, the world's largest ice rink at the time, played host to the first-ever official playoffs for the Stanley Cup. The Pacific Coast Champion Vancouver Millionaires, led by superstar Fred "Cyclone" Taylor, would face off in a best-of-five series against the NHA champion Ottawa Senators.



There was no parade, no on-ice presentation. The Senators, so confident they would easily dispatch the upstart Millionaires, had not even brought the Stanley Cup with them to Vancouver. After the final game, the exhausted and defeated Senators crowded into the Millionaires dressing room to congratulate them. The new style of hockey had beaten the old.



http://canucks.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=86493">//http://canucks.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=86493

The Denman Arena was also the first in Canada to have artificially frozen ice. It was lost to fire in 1936.



http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_qLRxkFOBB8/UzR6_AXtzkI/AAAAAAAAreU/qHLks48DjhU/s1600/DenmanArena.jpg">

Very interesting Romero, thank you.

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[@realAzhyaAryola]

Tomorrow is the hundredth anniversary of the Vancouver Millionaires Stanley Cup win!



Few people know that a Vancouver hockey team has won the Stanley Cup (geez, it was only a hundred years ago), but even fewer people know that it changed hockey into what it is today.

At the dawn of the last century, hockey visionaries Frank and Lester Patrick headed West and gambled everything. Great players in the National Hockey Association, they had become frustrated with the slow, grinding game played in the eastern-based league. They sold the family business, and moved to Vancouver with a new vision for hockey that would change our game forever.



In 1912 they founded a new league on the West Coast, built huge new arenas, and revolutionized our game to showcase speed and creativity. They introduced forward passing, the blue line, line changes, delayed penalties, and the penalty shot. They placed numbers on players' sweaters, introduced the scoring concept of assists and allowed goaltenders to leave their feet to make a save. They created the first playoff system in North American sports, the one we still use today. This was the birth of modern hockey. And it all happened right here.



The 10,500-seat Denman Arena, the world's largest ice rink at the time, played host to the first-ever official playoffs for the Stanley Cup. The Pacific Coast Champion Vancouver Millionaires, led by superstar Fred "Cyclone" Taylor, would face off in a best-of-five series against the NHA champion Ottawa Senators.



There was no parade, no on-ice presentation. The Senators, so confident they would easily dispatch the upstart Millionaires, had not even brought the Stanley Cup with them to Vancouver. After the final game, the exhausted and defeated Senators crowded into the Millionaires dressing room to congratulate them. The new style of hockey had beaten the old.



http://canucks.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=86493">//http://canucks.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=86493

The Denman Arena was also the first in Canada to have artificially frozen ice. It was lost to fire in 1936.



http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_qLRxkFOBB8/UzR6_AXtzkI/AAAAAAAAreU/qHLks48DjhU/s1600/DenmanArena.jpg">

Woohoo! Hockey! Yeah! Great article, R! ac_drinks

[@realAzhyaAryola]

Tonight at 8 at the Saddledome! Woohoo! The Flames face off with the Dallas Stars!



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[Anonymous]

Tonight at 8 at the Saddledome! Woohoo! The Flames face off with the Dallas Stars!



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Go Calgary.

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[Romero]

Thanks, guys!



I hope Calgary and Winnipeg make the playoffs. I really miss them being there. I hope Washington makes it too!

[@realAzhyaAryola]

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[@realAzhyaAryola]

Thanks, guys!



I hope Calgary and Winnipeg make the playoffs. I really miss them being there. I hope Washington makes it too!

So far they are. I hope they stay in.

[Romero]

Now I'm hoping the Canucks make it after last night's loss.  ac_sure

[Anonymous]

I have not been following the Flames as much this year.

[@realAzhyaAryola]

LA Kings was last place among the top 16 teams but now Calgary is and LA has moved up. We almost lost last night but won in OT. Go Caps Go!