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Per wrote:
Strangelove wrote:

Bonus Round at the 4:00 mark is funny.

Twins are freaky.
Hilarious.

But Ulf Sterner was actually not the first Swede to play in the NHL, even if this is what most people think. The correct answer should really be Gus Forslund, born in 1908 in Holmsund, Sweden, who played for the Ottawa Senators during the 1932/33 season. Ulf Sterner was the first to move to North America specifically to play in the NHL though. Gus moved to Canada as a kid.
A better question would have been who was the first Swede to throw a hit in the NHL. Hard to find video evidence though, expecially if you only include clean hits.

The answer is Peter Forsberg BTW. :wink:
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Rumsfeld wrote:
Per wrote:
Strangelove wrote:

Bonus Round at the 4:00 mark is funny.

Twins are freaky.
Hilarious.

But Ulf Sterner was actually not the first Swede to play in the NHL, even if this is what most people think. The correct answer should really be Gus Forslund, born in 1908 in Holmsund, Sweden, who played for the Ottawa Senators during the 1932/33 season. Ulf Sterner was the first to move to North America specifically to play in the NHL though. Gus moved to Canada as a kid.
A better question would have been who was the first Swede to throw a hit in the NHL. Hard to find video evidence though, expecially if you only include clean hits.

The answer is Peter Forsberg BTW. :wink:
Can Neely knows that Ulf played a pretty tough game even without the dirty knees
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Jordon Subban sure has some skills. If he could grow a few inches...
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Jordon Subban sure has some skills. If he could grow a few inches.
So weird, my girlfriend just said the exact same thing about me....

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Rumsfeld wrote:Jordon Subban sure has some skills. If he could grow a few inches...
So weird, my girlfriend just said the exact same thing about me....

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Vertically or horizontally?? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Jovocop wrote:Vertically or horizontally?? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Emotionally Jovocop.

Emotionally. :(
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They changed the draft lottery rules, so the top 10 teams that miss the playoffs have slightly better odds, whereas the worst 4 teams have a slightly worse shot at it. Buffalo has got to be pissed. And for the Canucks, well, if we finish just out of a playoff spot, 14th worst, at least now we'll have a 1% chance at McDavid rather than that piddly little .5%

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=7287 ... L|NHL|home

So, you're telling me there's a chance...yeah!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5jNnDMfxA
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Boston Canucker wrote:They changed the draft lottery rules, so the top 10 teams that miss the playoffs have slightly better odds, whereas the worst 4 teams have a slightly worse shot at it. Buffalo has got to be pissed. And for the Canucks, well, if we finish just out of a playoff spot, 14th worst, at least now we'll have a 1% chance at McDavid rather than that piddly little .5%

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=7287 ... L|NHL|home

So, you're telling me there's a chance...yeah!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5jNnDMfxA
It gets even worse for would-be tankers in 2016.

The last-place team could with 4th overall. :)
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Strangelove wrote:
Boston Canucker wrote:They changed the draft lottery rules, so the top 10 teams that miss the playoffs have slightly better odds, whereas the worst 4 teams have a slightly worse shot at it. Buffalo has got to be pissed. And for the Canucks, well, if we finish just out of a playoff spot, 14th worst, at least now we'll have a 1% chance at McDavid rather than that piddly little .5%

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=7287 ... L|NHL|home

So, you're telling me there's a chance...yeah!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5jNnDMfxA
It gets even worse for would-be tankers in 2016.

The last-place team could with 4th overall. :)
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Be thankful Todd
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Ex-Canuck, Luongo accepted the ALS ice bucket challenge from Lack and challenging his "friends" Torts, Milbury and Keenan... :mrgreen:

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Jovocop wrote:Ex-Canuck, Luongo accepted the ALS ice bucket challenge from Lack and challenging his "friends" Torts, Milbury and Keenan... :mrgreen:
*LOL* :lol:
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Nice to have a GM whose a hockey nerd too...

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The last occupant, former GM Mike Gillis, had a big photo of himself and a trophy fish. Brian Burke proudly displayed a portrait from his minor-league playing days: Burke bloodied but stoic. (He was injured in the warm-up).

Benning could show off a photo, too — for instance, holding the Stanley Cup he won three years ago.

“I just cleaned my office up,” Benning said Thursday. “I usually have these sheets spread out all over the office. I like to keep wall space available.”

Benning is an active thinker. He writes down ideas, makes lists, charts. He has a hand-written roster of his team, with age, salaries and contract status noted by the players’ names. Another poster-size sheet displays the traits he believes a Canuck should possess. But Benning’s masterpiece is a positional depth chart that includes every team in the National Hockey League, penned by Benning on feltboard and arranged by team rank. It contains the colour-coded names of more than 700 NHL players and occupies most of the south wall of Benning’s office at Rogers Arena.

It’s like what Michelangelo might have created for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were he a hockey nerd and not a Renaissance genius.

“This is my work space,” Benning explained. “I need to know every player in the league.
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The closer we get to opening night the more excited I am becoming .... just over a month!
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