Twenty years on HFBoards

[Calderon]

A quality post right there, @Hockey Outsider, from a quality poster! I've not gotten "deep" in the history boards such as participating in the all time lists but I enjoy we have them. I've learn a lot on the past greats. I share your opinion of not thinking the NHL or the sport really needs to grow from what it is. The Big Phil controversy intrigues me, I've seen the moniker many times over the years but have no idea what happened. (Edit: Found the whole debacle and skimmed through, it was a wild ride )

I think it's been 20 years on HFB for me, too, as I lurked a while unregistered, probably recapturing my interest in the league during the lockout if not the season before, reading about the next great superstar who eventually got drafted by the Penguins and the subsequent rivalry (Crosby and Ovi) that electrified the sport for years to come. I don't post that frequently and I'll admit myself that I don't compensate it with quality. It is what it is.

Every once in a while you see a surge of new blood on the history forum and even though you tend to roll your eyes a bit on the naive seeming comparisons that've been done to death (Gretzky vs. Bossy as goal scorers etc.) I was pleasently surprised the enthusiasm wasn't just coldly nipped in the bud last time.

Here's to the next twenty years, may we still be here then to acknowledge it.

 

[Salsa Shark]

The MS Paint team logo thread from 12-15 years back is another all-timer.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Here's an archive I was able to find recently:

Caption/Photoshop this photo - HFBoards

. Caption/Photoshop this photo The Lounge

web.archive.org

if you ever find the bert2nazzy Christina Woloski thread you will be my new hero.

 

[Golden_Jet]

You haven't heard about the additional benefits after twenty years. They really add up.

Awesome, I should start seeing the benefits anytime.

 

[Slats432]

24 years and counting. January of 2001, looking for information on 2001 draft. Once a HFBer, always a HFBer.

 

[Michael Farkas]

There's a lot of people that post here and that's what makes it a discussion forum...and I know that everyone is special, but you're one of the elites that really make it tangibly better, H.O.

Glad you stayed with it all this time.

 

[alko]

Me self celebrated 20th anniversary few months ago. I also was for a short time one from the writers about Slovak prospects. And they paid me for that!!!

 

[Kyle McMahon]

There's no other message board out there that I've ever come across that matches the quality and depth that HF HOH can boast. Anchor tenants like @Hockey Outsider made this place what it is. I'm grateful for all the knowledge I gained from many posters here over the 19 years I've been a member. My interest in the NHL is basically zero by now (if McDavid hadn't landed on my hometown team I doubt I'd watch a single game all year at this point), but it's still great to check on this specific forum regularly. Even reading through old threads from more than a decade ago is a fine way to kill an hour or two. Kudos to everyone who still posts regularly, I look forward to enjoying your content for many more years!

 

[x Tame Impala]

AFAIK there's no better sport's discussion board anywhere online. Which cements the fact that hockey really is the coolest of the 4 sports.

I've been here since 2012. This forum used to be a lot funnier, I have to say, but other than that it's still an amazing place. I can talk about videogames, movies, hockey, politics...kidding, and even other sports here.

The recent layout issues aside, I love the format of discussion here so much. I'm very grateful this forum exists

 

[Johnny Engine]

There's no other message board out there that I've ever come across that matches the quality and depth that HF HOH can boast. Anchor tenants like @Hockey Outsider made this place what it is. I'm grateful for all the knowledge I gained from many posters here over the 19 years I've been a member.

I'm glad to hear someone say that, because I've noticed a few threads where some posters have been responding to (real or perceived) misinformation by trashing the quality of the information here, and I'd hate to see what we have here go unappreciated.

What this place is, it's not the Stanley Finals, it's the London Marathon. Grandmothers on a weight loss journey can show up and compete with Eliud Kipchoge, and you'll see everything from tests in the limit of human ability, to people forgetting to drink water and having to go lie down halfway through, to a guy dressed as Spiderman.

Here it's the same. You can come ask if Gretzky or OV is better, you can forget to drink water and spend a full work day yelling about Pierre Turgeon, or you can do what @Hockey Outsider does and really break the tape in many ways. It's a cool place. (And now I have second verse of "All Star" stuck in my head.)