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Post by Machski on Mar 16, 2020 13:27:23 GMT -5
Too sad to say anything at the moment...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2020 13:42:39 GMT -5
Classic!
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Post by junior on Mar 19, 2020 14:33:35 GMT -5
Rangers woulda gotten into that 8th spot and seen the Bruins early on and woulda knocked 'em out of the post season in 4.
B's got lucky the season ended....
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Post by oldtimer on Mar 20, 2020 15:18:39 GMT -5
Bruins made some nice signings yesterday with the goalie from UMaine, Swayman, maybe the best in college hockey right now, and a big, tough defenseman from Minnesota Duluth. Anything to take our minds off the virus.
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Post by Machski on Mar 28, 2020 18:57:31 GMT -5
Bauer based in Exeter is now manufacturing face shields for medical personnel with Hockey not really a thing at the moment.
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Post by CartMan on Mar 28, 2020 19:03:07 GMT -5
Is this the new Puck Talk thread?? Since we all have time, this is a pretty great read.
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2005, file photo, the inscription on the Stanley Cup showing the 1919 series, the only series in the history of the cup not completed, is shown at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. Anyone who scoffs at drastic measures to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, who wonders if it was really necessary to shut down sports around the world, needs to learn the tragic story of the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals. It's right there on the silver chalice, engraved alongside all the championship teams. "Series not completed." (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP
Anyone who scoffs at all these drastic measures to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, who wonders if it’s really necessary to shut down sports around the world, needs a primer on the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals.
The tragic turns of events is right there on the silver chalice, engraved alongside all the championship teams.
“Series Not Completed.”
Yep, there was once a Stanley Cup that had to be called off before the decisive game when Spanish flu swept through the teams.
A star player even lost his life.
As every sport grapples with this unprecedented shutdown and ponders the proper timeline to safely get its athletes back on the fields and into the arenas, a championship hockey series from just over a century ago should at least be lurking in the back of everyone’s mind. ADVERTISEMENT
“Ï think it underscores that athletes are a lot more intimately connected than they might seem,” said Steve Chapelle, who has written a book on the series, “No Decision: The 1919 Stanley Cup Final.”
“You can take the fans out of the arenas to protect the players,” he added Friday in a telephone interview. “But everybody on the court or on the field or on the ice still gets so close to each other.”
The Spanish flu, which may have actually started in Kansas and claimed tens of millions of lives during its three-year carnage, had been raging since at least early 1918 when the Montreal Canadiens boarded a train for a grueling cross-country journey to face the Seattle Metropolitans in a best-of-five series for the Stanley Cup.
After a week of travel, which included a couple of exhibition games along the way and was capped by a ferry ride from Vancouver to Seattle, the Canadiens finally arrived in the United States to play for the title.
Chapelle’s research found no mention of the flu outbreak in newspaper articles previewing the series. But it didn’t take long for the pandemic to overshadow what was happening on the ice.
With the series tied at two games apiece (another contest ended in a tie), both teams were wracked by illness, sending several players to the hospital with temperatures up to 105 degrees. The Canadiens were especially hard hit, winding up with only three healthy players.
Montreal coach George Kennedy, who also fell ill, reportedly offered to forfeit the series to the Metropolitans, but their coach, Pete Muldoon, rejected the offer in a remarkable act of sportsmanship. ADVERTISEMENT
In the end, it didn’t really matter. Health officials shut down the Seattle Ice Arena to prevent the illness from spreading even more — not long before the final game was scheduled to be played.
Just four days later, Canadiens defenseman Joe Hall succumbed to the flu. He was only 37.
“His family was summoned from Brandon,” Chapelle said, referring to the Manitoba city that Hall called home. “His wife and a couple of kids, and I believe his brother, were on their way. But he died before they could get there. Frank Patrick (president of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association) had to go to the train station to give them the bad news.”
Hall was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1961. His biography on the hall’s web site says he left “his mark on the hockey world as a warlike defenseman who himself met a tragic end.”
Two years after the ill-fated series, the pandemic claimed another victim. Kennedy never fully recovered and died from lingering complications two months shy of his 40th birthday.
Chapelle originally wrote his book on the 1919 series a quarter-century ago, but a publishing deal fell through and he filed his manuscript away, figuring it would never see the light of day.
Then, after Seattle was granted an NHL expansion franchise that is set to begin play in 2021, he wondered if there might be some renewed interest in his project. He decided to self-publish and offer it up on Amazon.
As the coronavirus swept the globe, he realized the story was pertinent on a whole different level.
”No matter how big and strong and well-conditioned you might be, you’re still vulnerable,” Chapelle said. “When something like this gets inside of you, you’ve got trouble.”
Seattle was a member of the upstart PCHA, which was launched in 1911 to challenge the East Coast dominance of what was then known as the National Hockey Association, the precursor to the NHL.
The PCHA was eventually recognized as an equal circuit, leading to an agreement that each league’s champion would face off for the Stanley Cup beginning in 1915. Two years later, the Metropolitans became the first U.S.-based team to claim the prize, beating the Canadiens three games to one.
In the era before air travel, it was necessary to play the entire series in one location, switching back and forth in the each game between the leagues’ strikingly different rules.
That’s what brought the final back to Seattle in 1919 for what was supposed to be a celebration — the first Cup showdown since the end of World War I, with the Canadiens now a member of a league that had morphed from NHA to NHL.
In the end, the final produced nothing but heartbreak.
Strapped for cash, the PCHA eventually merged with another western Canadian league. The combined circuit didn’t last, going out of business in 1926.
Ever since then, the Stanley Cup final has been the exclusive domain of the NHL.
Yet that tragic reminder remains on its most cherished award.
“1919. Montreal Canadiens. Seattle Metropolitans. Series Not Completed.”
Not completed, perhaps, but certainly worth remembering.
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Post by oldtimer on Mar 30, 2020 8:23:35 GMT -5
Anybody been watching the replays of the 2011 Bruins Stanley Cup run every night at 8 on NESN? About as good of a fix as you can get in these drab times.
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Post by junior on Mar 30, 2020 8:35:33 GMT -5
Anybody been watching the replays of the 2011 Bruins Stanley Cup run every night at 8 on NESN? About as good of a fix as you can get in these drab times. Rangers Classics on MSG.
I feel your pain for puck....
94 Game 7 Double OT Conf Finals
Matteau Matteau Matteau .......
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Post by CartMan on Apr 8, 2020 17:04:46 GMT -5
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Post by ZenMaster on Apr 8, 2020 18:57:50 GMT -5
2011 Bs v Lightening Game 3 tonight. A gem by Tim Thomas.
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Post by oldtimer on Apr 9, 2020 13:10:04 GMT -5
Watching the 2011 Cup run, I can't get over how much faster Chara, Krejci and Lucic were back then. Bergy and Marchand don't seem quite as good back then as they are now. And the 2011 team was much tougher than today's Bruins. Think about it. You had Chara, Seidenburg, and McQuaide on D, and Lucic and Thornton up front. Lucic was a beast. Tuukka is no Tim Thomas. Different NHL today.
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Post by Machski on Apr 9, 2020 15:32:57 GMT -5
Watching the 2011 Cup run, I can't get over how much faster Chara, Krejci and Lucic were back then. Bergy and Marchand don't seem quite as good back then as they are now. And the 2011 team was much tougher than today's Bruins. Think about it. You had Chara, Seidenburg, and McQuaide on D, and Lucic and Thornton up front. Lucic was a beast. Tuukka is no Tim Thomas. Different NHL today. Agree mostly, but the Thomas of that year was a different animal than the Thomas pre and post. He was an absolute machine that season, especially post.
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Post by CartMan on Apr 14, 2020 15:46:32 GMT -5
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Bruins 3.0
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Post by ZenMaster on Apr 25, 2020 20:11:36 GMT -5
Bruins vs Sabres 1992 Adams Div Playoffs Game 7 right now.
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Post by oldtimer on May 10, 2020 10:42:47 GMT -5
Some nostalgia. Today is the 50th anniversary of Bobby Orr's famous goal to win the Stanley Cup. Like today it was Mother's Day, but unlike today the temperature was close to 90. At that time I was in between finishing grad school and starting teaching in September, and I was working moving furniture for a store on Canal St. a block from the Garden. After work we'd hang out at the bar of the original 99 on Portland St. Many of the Bruins would come in after practice, and we tossed down beers with the likes of Pie McKenzie, Gary Doak, Swoop Carlton, Cheesie, etc. Never saw the big names there. As soon as Orr scored his goal, I rushed from my parents' house in Framingham into town on the Mass. Pike to join the festivities. It was nuts, crazy all over the city but especially around the Garden.
The next day was the parade. I had to work, but went right over to the 99 as soon as I could. The party went on all night. Around 10 I found myself in the 3rd floor bar in a booth with Harry Sinden. I wish I could say that I had a nice conversation with Harry, but he was totally shitfaced. If you knew Harry back then, you knew that wasn't that unusual. One of the most poignant things I've ever seen happened that night. Teddy Green, who was Mr. Bruin in the down years prior to Orr's coming, and who was a 2nd team all-star the year before, had missed the entire season after suffering brain damage in a stick fight with Wayne Maki of the Blues in a pre-season exhibition game. I looked over to see Teddy sitting on the bar with his feet on a bar stool crying like a baby. Yes, Terrible Ted Green crying. The emotion of suffering through all the bad years of the 60s and not being able to play for the Cup had just gotten to him, I guess.
It's hard for young people today to appreciate what a hold that Bruins team had on the whole New England region back then. Maybe the 2004 Sox or some recent Pats seasons. As a writer said in the Globe this morning, "Bobby Orr was Tom Brady before there was a Tom Brady." I'm just glad to have had a small part in the fun.
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