NHL '09/'10 Season Thread

Vlad The Impaler

Vlad The Impaler

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Bloodshot Scott said:
Oh yeah, I read the boards; it's just their Canadian inferiority complex. :D Imagine if we would've won the Gold, how much grief they 'd be catchin' around here. Oh well, it is their game, and they just barely beat us.

Id say a few olympics from now and we will be neck and neck with them as far as tallent goes. Let them have their fun while they can. ;)
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Mauser98k

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It appears as though the Tampa Bay Lightning and outgoing forward Stepane Veilleux have managed to avoid some ugliness.

The St. Petersburg Times is reporting that the Bolts have agreed to cover the cost of Veilleux's medical bills and that no grievance will be filed against the team by the NHLPA.

According to Veilleux's aganet, Allan Walsh, the 28-year old forward underwent successful surgery on Thursday at the Cleveland Clinic to repair a cyst, nerve impingement and a torn labrum in his right shoulder. The Lightning had disputed that the injury was hockey related and originally stated that their would not cover the $15,000 costs of surgery and rehab.

"We had conversations with Tampa," Walsh told the Times. "They have accepted financial responsibility for Stephane Veilleux's surgery and rehab, and the matter is resolved to all parties satisfaction, and it's over."

The Times stated that the Lightning refused to comment on the matter.

The Lightning appeared to balk at the notion that the injury was an impingement of the suprascapular nerve, an injury that is most commonly associated to athletes who engage on repetitive overhead motions. Veilleux is an avid tennis player who took on Andy Roddick in an exhibition tennis match this past March in Tampa.

He played in 77 of the Lightning's 82 games this season, missing three games with a back injury. He scored three times and added six assists and is eligible to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1st.



i'm glad to hear they settled this.
 
Vlad The Impaler

Vlad The Impaler

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Mauser98k said:
It appears as though the Tampa Bay Lightning and outgoing forward Stepane Veilleux have managed to avoid some ugliness.

The St. Petersburg Times is reporting that the Bolts have agreed to cover the cost of Veilleux's medical bills and that no grievance will be filed against the team by the NHLPA.

According to Veilleux's aganet, Allan Walsh, the 28-year old forward underwent successful surgery on Thursday at the Cleveland Clinic to repair a cyst, nerve impingement and a torn labrum in his right shoulder. The Lightning had disputed that the injury was hockey related and originally stated that their would not cover the $15,000 costs of surgery and rehab.

"We had conversations with Tampa," Walsh told the Times. "They have accepted financial responsibility for Stephane Veilleux's surgery and rehab, and the matter is resolved to all parties satisfaction, and it's over."

The Times stated that the Lightning refused to comment on the matter.

The Lightning appeared to balk at the notion that the injury was an impingement of the suprascapular nerve, an injury that is most commonly associated to athletes who engage on repetitive overhead motions. Veilleux is an avid tennis player who took on Andy Roddick in an exhibition tennis match this past March in Tampa.

He played in 77 of the Lightning's 82 games this season, missing three games with a back injury. He scored three times and added six assists and is eligible to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1st.



i'm glad to hear they settled this.
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Why would it even matter if it was hockey related or not? Wouldn't insurance cover this either way? People get hurt away from work all the time & insurance covers them.
 
rodfarva

rodfarva

Bloodshot Scott said:
Oh yeah, I read the boards; it's just their Canadian inferiority complex. :D Imagine if we would've won the Gold, how much grief they 'd be catchin' around here. Oh well, it is their game, and they just barely beat us.

Id say a few olympics from now and we will be neck and neck with them as far as tallent goes. Let them have their fun while they can. ;)
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LOL, keep dreaming. Just kidding, the US team has it in them to beat the Canadians on any given night, but Canada will always be the favourite. I think, and I said this before the Olympics began, that the US undoubtedly has the second best hockey program in the world behind the Canadians. I am a dual citizen, so if anyone besides Canada were to win, I would be rooting for that team to be the Americans.

By the way, we won't have to wait another four years for the next best-on-best hockey tournament. The third ever World Cup of Hockey will happen in 2011, so we all have that to look forward to. The US won the first World Cup in '96 and Canada won the next in '04 with much the same team that won gold at the Olympics in '02 in Salt Lake City.

P.S. The World Cup took over from the Canada Cup and is different from the annual World Hockey Championships, which is the tournament that is going on right now and happens during the NHL postseason every year, so inevitably many of the best players in the world are unable to go, and still many others choose not to because of the lack of prestige value that the tournament offers. But for the World Cup, almost all the best players are interested in competing in that tournament, it's a pretty big deal and it happens when there are no NHL games going on, so they are all free to participate.
 
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LukeEl

I am a failure to the Korean side of my family
Fuck there was a tape delay on Versus, when the screen went blank for 15 seconds I was almost ready to jump in my car and drive up to Toronto and knock the shit out of Gary Betteman for not letting ESPN acquire the rights to NHL games.
 
Vlad The Impaler

Vlad The Impaler

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LukeEl said:
Fuck there was a tape delay on Versus, when the screen went blank for 15 seconds I was almost ready to jump in my car and drive up to Toronto and knock the shit out of Gary Betteman for not letting ESPN acquire the rights to NHL games.
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I think we should do it anyway! Does anyone know when this contract runs out?
 
PlasmaTwa2

PlasmaTwa2

The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
LukeEl said:
Fuck there was a tape delay on Versus, when the screen went blank for 15 seconds I was almost ready to jump in my car and drive up to Toronto and knock the shit out of Gary Betteman for not letting ESPN acquire the rights to NHL games.
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Bettman would actually be in New York.
 
PlasmaTwa2

PlasmaTwa2

The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
LukeEl said:
Why is he doing a photo shoot with Sean Avery and his Boy Friday Sidney....BTW B's 1-0 I knew Ryder would come through!
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The NHL headquarters are in New York. Toronto is merely where they review the plays.
 
Vlad The Impaler

Vlad The Impaler

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This fuckers over already. I think the Flyers realized they couldn't beat Montreal so they said the hell with it.
 
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lurkingdirk

Come on Philly!

Actually, I don't give a flying, flaming llama poop, but I do love to see the underdog win. And coming back from 3-0 deficit would be an underdog win.

however, good work, Boston. Unless I'm much mistaken, this game is over. If Boston loses, Jagger is allowed to punch me in the face.
 
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