] "I don't think there's any way not to resent it," said
] Generals forward Rob Valicevic. "I understand from their
] standpoint they want to play, but you have to look at it
] from our standpoint. A lot of guys are making $300 to
] $500 supporting their families.

While I agree that NHL players going down to the minor leagues is just plain wrong, I think this is an ironic quote, since Valicevic has at least several seasons under him at the NHL. Wrong guy to get a quote from.

Nearly 4,500 fans come to see Hatcher

] Mr. McGuigan gave a speech.
]
] "You guys are all great hockey players," he said. "I
] don't care what is said to you when you walk out this
] door. I don't care. I'm proud of you."

Another great article in this series, highlighting travel youth hockey. Oddly enough, I was in Detroit at the Auto Show the same time this tournament was going on. They may have even stayed at the same hotel that we were at.

Ice Time: For Players, Fast Pulses; for Parents, Raw Nerves

] A study into why women flashed crowds of Calgary Flames
] fans during last year's NHL playoffs should shed light on
] current Canadian attitudes about female nudity, says a
] Calgary professor.

**PLEASE** bring back the NHL!!!

Prof to study why women flashed breasts at hockey fans

] Many young athletes, in yearlong pursuits of team sports,
] like baseball, soccer, football, basketball and lacrosse,
] play more than one. The number involved in ice hockey
] alone is striking. USA Hockey, the governing body for the
] sport and the chief advocate for the spread of the game
] among young people, had nearly 25,000 under-18 teams
] registered last year, a total of some 366,000 players, up
] from 166,000 in 1991. That includes more than 48,000
] girls, a nearly eightfold increase in the same time
] period.

Great article on youth hockey and the proper perspective one must have to benefit from it.

Ice Time: A Fierce Investment, in Skates and Family Time

] The teenage goalkeeper of Benin's Under-20 soccer team
] has died after being beaten up by unidentified attackers
] a day after the West African nation lost their first
] match at the African Youth Championship.

Tough Job

] THIS IS NOT GARY BETTMAN SPEAKING, SO DON'T GO POSTING
] THIS ON SOME BULLETIN BOARD, SAYING: "Wow, did you see
] what Bettman said!" This is our perception of what he
] COULD say.

How Bettman really feels

] We knew the lockout was coming. We knew it would be ugly.
] We were not prepared for the ease with which both sides
] - owners and players - would let a great sport
] slip into irrelevance.

sigh.

Hockey's gone, but who cares?

] The NHL lock out may have postponed the 2004-2005 season,
] but disappointed hockey fans can still watch the puck
] drop in more than 50 million U.S. and Canadian homes when
] the defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning
] face off against the Philadelphia Flyers in the season
] opener of the video game NHL season on G4techTV.
]
] All 1,230 regular season games originally slated for the
] 2004-2005 NHL season will be played, with results of each
] video game match-up available to fans who tune-in daily
] to "Sweat."

G4tv.com - Press Releases - VIRTUAL HOCKEY SEASON TO AIR ON G4TECHTV

] This 13-episode docudrama combines professional hockey
] with a behind-the-scenes search for Canada's best
] unsigned hockey players hosted by Scott Oake alongside
] Kelly Hrudey and Cassie Campbell. Led by legendary NHL
] coaches Scotty Bowman and Mike Keenan, Making the Cut,
] chronicles the trials and tribulations of players as they
] are put through the paces of NHL caliber drills, fitness
] tests and scrimmages in an effort to secure one of six
] invitations to a Canadian NHL team training camp.

Does anyone get CBC on satellite? Be willing to burn this series to DVD in exchange for a favor (or two)?

Making The Cut

] A minor league hockey player was charged Thursday with
] assault causing bodily harm over a stick-swinging
] incident that left his opponent bleeding and convulsing
] on the ice, police said.

[sigh]

AHL player charged in stick-swinging incident