The Chicago Pro Hockey League (Now featuring #19)

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

This isn't going to be semi pro hockey. It's going to be shinny.

 

[CallMeShaft]

I hope you're right but there's way more at stake than the $200.

All risk and no upside is not where I like to be.

There's plenty of upside to this. Prospects like Jokiharju get comfortable with a number of Hawks players. And free agents (like John Moore) might be more interested in signing with us after getting a decent amount of time meeting our players and playing at our practice facility.

Also, hockey in the summer months doesn't sound so bad...

 

[Pez68]

This isn't going to be semi pro hockey. It's going to be shinny.

Rat hockey, with refs.... Basically.

I mean, it's coed for f***s sake.

 

[Blue Liner]

Yeah, this is basically just an organized form of the greatest rat hockey you’ve ever seen.

 

[BobbyJet]

Yeah, this is basically just an organized form of the greatest rat hockey you’ve ever seen.

True, but it only takes one errant high stick or wild slap shot to sour it. Let's all hope it doesn't happen.

 

[BK]

People were pissed at players for not going to the world championships but now they are being to risky playing in a less competitive summer league? can really hockey start already as we are going to lose our minds.

 

[Marotte Marauder]

People were pissed at players for not going to the world championships but now they are being to risky playing in a less competitive summer league? can really hockey start already as we are going to lose our minds.

The worlds have a purpose. If injuries happen it's unfortunate.

This has no purpose and if injuries happen it's stupid.

 

[BK]

The worlds have a purpose. If injuries happen it's unfortunate.

This has no purpose and if injuries happen it's stupid.

Saying this has no purpose is illogical to me. Clearly it’s purpose is to provide training for the players. Injuries can happen anywhere but I would much rather have the league here under the watchful eye of the Hawks training staff then is some random rink somewhere else. Also they have more control of who plays.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

I don't get any reaction to this outside the spectrum of "whatever" to "huh, that might be kinda neat."

Players COULD get hurt mountain climbing, fishing, hunting, getting groceries, buying a bagel, whatever.

 

[alko]

NHL is testing, how could they run the Summer League.

 

[Marotte Marauder]

Saying this has no purpose is illogical to me. Clearly it’s purpose is to provide training for the players. Injuries can happen anywhere but I would much rather have the league here under the watchful eye of the Hawks training staff then is some random rink somewhere else. Also they have more control of who plays.

Is it training, shinny, rat hockey, a leisurely skate?

Seems opinions are all over the board.

 

[BobbyJet]

I don't get any reaction to this outside the spectrum of "whatever" to "huh, that might be kinda neat."

Players COULD get hurt mountain climbing, fishing, hunting, getting groceries, buying a bagel, whatever.

Don't forget "attending concerts".

 

[ChiHawks10]

Is it training, shinny, rat hockey, a leisurely skate?

Seems opinions are all over the board.

Sounds to me like very, very high-end, organized, rat hockey. As someone else said, it's coed for f***s sake. These guys skate all summer anyways, and play in different summer leagues all the time. Kane regularly played in Buffalo in summer leagues in the past. It will be something fun for them to do around Chicago to keep skating, and nothing more, IMO.

 

[BK]

Is it training, shinny, rat hockey, a leisurely skate?

Seems opinions are all over the board.

Training to rat hockey would be my take but again having the players here allows for the team to have more control.

 

[Game suspension]

Is it training, shinny, rat hockey, a leisurely skate?

Seems opinions are all over the board.

rat hockey = shinny btw. Welcome to Chicago slang.

 

[Pez68]

Shinny is played in hotel hallways, with mini hockey sticks.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

I know shinny as both.

 

[Pez68]

I don't know anyone in the Chicago area that calls rat hockey shinny.

 

[Blue Liner]

Shinny is played in hotel hallways, with mini hockey sticks.

I never heard the word "shinny" as referring to pick-up/rat hockey until I got to college and had Canadian friends. Shinny/Shinny Sticks was always mini-stick mayhem in the hotel hallways my entire life until that point.

 

[BK]

Mini-sticks makes me feel sore just thinking about it.

 

[Marotte Marauder]

Mini-sticks makes me feel sore just thinking about it.

Most of my hockey related injuries are the result of shinny on commercial (knee burning) carpet.

 

[AmericanDream]

call it whatever you like, but what this really is will be a gathering of guys wanting to play for the Hawks.

John Moore, Wingels, and maybe find a way to snag Dvorak out of the Yotes...this is the most perfect recruitment program I have ever seen!

 

[BK]

Most of my hockey related injuries are the result of shinny on commercial (knee burning) carpet.

Very true.

 

[CallMeShaft]

The tourney starts tonight for those interested in watching.

 

[BobbyJet]

The Cat scores.

Edit: and he scores again with a lovely snipe.