random SPORTS thoughts

[Mudcat]

Are we saying he is a sliver of some foreign substance under the skin?

Or is he a guy who sets broken bones?

Or wot?

 

[Tron]

Sonny Gray pitches for the Oakland A's

 

[betplom]

Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident.

 

[MrMonkey]

Sonny Gray pitches for the Oakland A's

I was hoping for the no-no!

 

[betplom]

Jeremiah was a bullfrog.

 

[roguejuror]

Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident.

Michael Schumacher is a vegetable after a skiing accident.

 

[Mudcat]

So Duke huh?

Huh.

 

[bacon]

Fuck DUKE.

The Flyers have beaten the Penguins EIGHT times in a row but also aren't making the playoffs.

That pretty much sums up Flyers hockey 1980-current and actually a good portion of the fanbase including MONK and myself - we never completely make any sense.

 

[Mudcat]

Pittsburgh Penguins could potentially get a lottery pick and end up with Connor McDavid.

Wouldn't that be a fine how-do-you-do?

 

[Mudcat]

I was mistaken. Apparently, while the Penguins could miss the playoffs and therefore end up in a lottery position - that pick belongs, because of an earlier trade, to the Edmonton Oilers.

 

[Mudcat]

The New York Rangers win the President's Trophy.

The President's Trophy.

 

[bacon]

Pittsburgh Penguins could potentially get a lottery pick and end up with Connor McDavid.

Wouldn't that be a fine how-do-you-do?

There's just things you don't say Muddy.

 

[roguejuror]

Who's President?

 

[Mudcat]

Don't even know, now that you mention it.

 

[Mudcat]

Just tried googling it. I still don't know. I gave up kind of easy but you'd think there would be an easy answer.

 

[Mudcat]

Aaron Hernandez though.

 

[Matty]

Head honcho used to be called "president".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL_Commissioner

Gil Stein (1992-1993)[edit]
On June 22, 1992, Stein was announced as the new president of the league and formally took the position, succeeding John Ziegler. Ziegler had been forced out by owners dissatisfied with his agreement with the NHLPA, that ended a ten-day strike initiated by Bob Goodenow.

As president, Stein greatly expanded the visibility of the president's office during his term, often seen at games and being frequently interviewed on air and in print. Among his early actions after becoming president was a shake-up of league officers, ousting several vice-presidents, including Brian O'Neill, who had been the league's disciplinarian under Ziegler. Stein personally took over responsibility for league discipline, making it mandatory that suspended players pay their fines. He also implemented a policy of suspending players from practices on non-game days, instead of having them miss games. He advocated the use of NHL players at the 1994 Winter Olympics, but ran into opposition on the issue from team owners.

The league hired an executive search firm to help find a new commissioner at the same time that Stein's appointment was announced. Before the end of 1992, NHL governors selected Gary Bettman to become the league's first commissioner, starting on February 1, 1993. Stein had been a finalist for the job, but bowed out to avoid an internecine battle, and threw his support to Bettman.

When Stein's term ended on July 1, 1993, the duties of the president were given to the commissioner, a position that remains to this day.

 

[Mudcat]

The name Gil Stein brings up all kinds of vague memories of cheesiness and possibly pseudo-scandal. Can't remember the details but there was some embarrassing stuff.

Put himself in the Hall of Fame or something???

Not sure but there was definitely something.