Hockey’s back, baby!
Today is, of course, the first day of the 2005-06 National Hockey League season. After losing the 2004-05 season to lockout, the return of the best sport in the world is heartily welcomed. Rule changes, including modifications to goaltender equipment and the layout of the rink, should show an increase in offensive output. It looks to be an exciting season.
Just as in previous seasons, the NHL makes radio broadcasts available for free, delivering both the home and away teams’ radio coverage. I’ll be listening to John Shorthouse doing the play-by-play on CKNW as any good Canucks fan should.
If you want to keep track of your favourite team’s schedule using iCal, check out iCalShare’s hockey calendar section. I’ve already downloaded the Canucks schedule and have found out that December 4th is going to be a guaranteed Canucks victory.
Geof, if you don’t have your Bruins schedule memorized, our two teams play in Vancouver on that date. =)
Hell yeah … tonight it starts. I hope Thornton’s line looks like:
26:04 3-1–4 9SOG 9PIM
Now, which Canadien do I want him to punch out the most? Hmmmmm …
[No, I'm not still chapped about that playoff loss in 2003-04. Why do you ask?]
Oh, and … guarantee my ass. ;)
I’m sad, though … I tried to get NHL Center Ice today, and my cable company doesn’t carry it in my area. Que triste!
You’d be pleased that I have two Bruins in my pool – Samsonov and Murray. :)
And we can’t get NHL Center Ice here either unless we switch off digital cable to satellite. Our cable company used to have it, but then dropped it because of the lockout. Bastards! I guess we’ll have to suffer through OLN’s coverage…
And I just read that Samsonov and Murray are probably going to be on Thornton’s line, so let’s hope that line works wonders!
Nah. Sergei’s playing on a line with Zhamnov and Bergeron, which is probably better for him. Glen’s playing with Big Joe, though. [It's better for Sergei to not be in there with Glen and Joe because Joe likes to feed to his right a lot. Of course, Knuble did get a lot of goals last year...]
Yeah, um … about Thornton’s line in this game …
I’m trying to get audio of this game off the Internet. :)