ATD Chat Thread XX

[jigglysquishy]

I'm looking for some book recommendations. Anything on the 1920s WCHL, or more specifically the Regina Capitals?

I love Empire of Ice and want more. But WCHL focused.

 

[seventieslord]

I'm looking for some book recommendations. Anything on the 1920s WCHL, or more specifically the Regina Capitals?

I love Empire of Ice and want more. But WCHL focused.

There's nothing.

 

[BraveCanadian]

There's nothing.

Looks like an opportunity!

 

[Professor What]

Does anyone else get a DNS error when trying to access old projects from the top players of all time thread?

 

[Johnny Engine]

Does anyone else get a DNS error when trying to access old projects from the top players of all time thread?

I know URLs have changed over time. Would have to be fixed manually.

 

[seventieslord]

Does anyone else get a DNS error when trying to access old projects from the top players of all time thread?

Yes. even my bookmarked link for this section stopped working about a week ago.

 

[BraveCanadian]

Does anyone else get a DNS error when trying to access old projects from the top players of all time thread?

They’ve broken so many links over the migrations of the site.

 

[MadArcand]

Replace the hfboards.mandatory.com in the URL with forums.hfboards.com and they'll work.

 

[Johnny Engine]

If no other OPs or mods get to it within the next two days I'm going to do a big find and replace on some things. Hold tight.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Who or what has the biggest collection of NHL and minor league salary information? I notice that baseball-reference has it part and parcel with their player pages going back to the days of Christ...do we have anything remotely close to that?

 

[Johnny Engine]

OK, the ATD Master Bio thread and the pinned threat for all Top-X lists have both been de-mandatoried.
I'll be picking through (what I think are) the important threads on a casual basis, but if anyone wants to PM me with what they'd like prioritized, I'm happy to hear it.

 

[Johnny Engine]

And now the Book Project, as well as the OPs of each Top-X project (linking to individual discussions and voting records) are done. I'm off to bed but what I just said still applies.

 

[Johnny Engine]

Ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party because the Historical resources thread is no longer MANDATORY.

 

[tinyzombies]

At the Habs- Leafs prospects game… in our old friend’s section

 

[VanIslander]

Is that you?
You look like Sprague, a few years on.

 

[tinyzombies]

Is that you?
You look like Sprague, a few years on.

Here’s another ATD fav

 

[Michael Farkas]

Hockey News - Apr 1987

SOVIETS WEAR ADS​

The lure of capitalism has caught up with the Soviet national hockey team.

For the first time ever, team players wore advertisements on their jerseys during recent exhibition games with Sweden. The sweaters carried the logo of a Swedish computer firm.

The Soviets were paid a reported $15,000 to wear the ads.

The head of the Soviet State Sports Committee’s ice hockey section, Anatoly Kostryukov, said Soviet athletes will continue to wear Western ads on their uniforms, as long as they don’t contain political slogans or promote consumption of tobacco, alcohol or pornography.

 

[VanIslander]

If you are a sc-fi FAN,... watch 'Slingshot' (2024). Lawrence Fishburne is one of the top-3 actors. It is about a looong journey to the moon Titan. It is a VERY GOOD sci-fi movie. Not great, not bad, but satisfying with originality built in. It gets better as it goes. I am happy to have seen it. And few sci-fi films these days deliver.

Don't read about it beforehand. Directors' number 1 pet peeve is viewers knowing the storyline beforehand.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Who or what has the biggest collection of NHL and minor league salary information? I notice that baseball-reference has it part and parcel with their player pages going back to the days of Christ...do we have anything remotely close to that?

One last ask on this before I start compiling this info myself...

@seventieslord you might be one of the best positioned to know if this exists...

 

[seventieslord]

One last ask on this before I start compiling this info myself...

@seventieslord you might be one of the best positioned to know if this exists...

Maybe in the THN "bucks and pucks" issues that started around 1991. I'm not sure how far they went with that. Maybe to the lockout, maybe not quite.

Since the lockout, salary info is a lot more public, isn't it? I know we don't have capfriendly anymore, but it's not like that information was proprietary and that was the only place it could be found.. right?

Prior to NHL salary disclosure and publishing by THN, I don't think we would be able to put anything comprehensive together, other than taking note every time we see a mention of what so-and-so made in what season. I've been reading books by and about Allan eagleson and there's plenty of mention of that along the way, though of course if I was to compile it all, I'm sure it doesn't count more than 10% of the NHL.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Yeah, I meant pre-lockout (maybe pre-disclosure). Interesting. Maybe I'll start collecting this information in my travels and then have H-R steal it from a stickied post here haha

 

[VanIslander]

If you liked Clockwork Orange, watch The Substance, with Demi Moore and Dennis Quaid. The film is better than you would think as they are famous but they're razor on point in their lane as supporting cast. It is a disturbing, focused, well-concluded horror drama. (Warning: you cannot unsee it. It sticks in your craw like Clockwork Orange, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now.)

Note: It is made for theater viewing, where people can't just tap out and be elsewhere in a second. That means it is uncomfortable, but intentionally so!

 

[Hockey Outsider]

@Bear of Bad News - please delete this if it's not appropriate for me to post this on HFBoards

I have two tickets to the Hockey Hall of Fame game in Toronto (at the Scotiabank Arena) on Sunday November 10th. The game includes a brief ceremony for this year's HOF inductees, and then a (fun but low intensity) all-star game with retired players (some of the bigger names include Lindros, Datsyuk, Getzlaf, Weber, Roenick, Gartner, Turgeon, Bondra, etc).

It's a fun game and I go most years. But I'm being pulled in too many directions this year and need to step back from a few things.

They're in section 117, row 2 (which is actually the first row of the section). I'm asking for face value ($99.50 CDN) - which is less than what comparable tickets are going for on StubHub. Let me know if interested.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

It's fine given your history - thanks for checking!

 

[Ben Grimm]

"Teams are built around game breaking offensive talents. The only defenseman that fits that bill is Orr unfortunately".

That may be my dumb quote of the day. Apparently, guys such as Bourque and Coffey (both top 16 in points playing dman) are not "game breaking offensive talents".