Your favorite "What if?" contemplation?

[GKJ]

Nothing D-1 (with the exception of the Alaska schools), in the continental us NCAA hockey doesnt' go further west than Colorado. There are club hockey teams in California, which maybe what you're thinking of.

Oh I know that much. I know if it exists it wouldn't be D-1.


I know Northern Arizona used to have a hockey program. Bill Berg played in it.

 

[GKJ]

What if Patrick Lalime wasn't a sieve in Game 7 vs. Toronto

 

[Hasbro]

Oh I know that much. I know if it exists it wouldn't be D-1.


I know Northern Arizona used to have a hockey program. Bill Berg played in it.

Greg Adams and Bob Beers too.

Should explain the problems of those programs.

 

[hockeyfan125]

What if Ulf had never cheap-shotted Cam Neely?

What if Otto got caught for kicking it in?

What if Patrick Roy was never traded. what happens to the Avs?

 

[Sonny Lamateena]

What if when playing for the Rangers: Pat Lafontaine, Eric Lindros, Theo Fleury, Mike Richter and Pavel Bure had been healthy?

 

[Rogalo]

What if I started playing hockey at the age of 4. I might have been great. This is a very...unique thread

 

[LadyJet26]

What if the Canucks had never drafted Trevor Linden? Would the Canucks have had the even remote chance of having the team they did in the early 90s?

What if the league hadn't let the Canucks keep Bure when they drafted him? Would they still of gotten him the next year?

What if Mike Keenan had never traded Linden for Bertuzzi and McCabe? Would Markus Naslund still be the great goal scorer he is without Bertuzzi?

 

[Habsfan 32]

What if Milbury kept Luongo and drafted Heatley.

 

[19nazzy]

What if Vancouver got Gretzky?
What if Roy didn't retire?
What if Roy wasn't traded?

 

[Sonny Lamateena]

What if Milbury kept Luongo and drafted Heatley.

What if Milbury was born 30 years earlier and became Islander GM just prior to their dynasty? Would he of traded Mike Bossy and Denis Potvin for a garden hose and a hawaiian shirt?

 

[DJmastamind]

What if Brett Hull's goal didn't count in 1999?

 

[Ogopogo*]

What if the Canucks had never drafted Trevor Linden? Would the Canucks have had the even remote chance of having the team they did in the early 90s?

QUOTE]

LOL.

Canuck fans give Trevor Linden waaaaaay too much credit. Face it, the guy is a mediocre player. You gotta know that the Canucks are going to hang #16 right next to Smyl's #12. That is sad. Desperation for some history and tradition so hang up the numbers of mediocre NHLers.

 

[arrbez]

what if the NHL never got a hold of the Stanley Cup? I can't imagine any sort of small little normal trophy being used...hell, they would just be called the championship playoffs...

 

[Frightened Inmate #2]

LOL.

Canuck fans give Trevor Linden waaaaaay too much credit. Face it, the guy is a mediocre player. You gotta know that the Canucks are going to hang #16 right next to Smyl's #12. That is sad. Desperation for some history and tradition so hang up the numbers of mediocre NHLers.

Yeah I just with that Cy Denneny played for the canucks.... well I haven't seen him but I am sure that he would be the best player to grace the rink. But really Linden was not only a great player for a while, but he is a great person, who was the face of the team for the better part of a decade, the youngest captain in NHL? history, someone who has always carried himself with class, and donates more time than anyone else to childerns charities in Vancouver and where ever he played. I have much more respect for the King Clancy Memorial trophey than you do i guess. Getting your number retired isn't only about the quality of player you were, but also the quality of person they were.

 

[Ogopogo*]

someone who has always carried himself with class

You sure about that?


During a BCTV interview about the 1994 lockout, a reporter asked Linden his thoughts on rapidly rising player salaries driving ticket prices so high that average families could no longer afford to go to games. Linden's response:

"Let them go to the carnival, then"


Very classy.

 

[joepeps]

What if Gretzky took a penalty shot in the olympics?
What if Toronto Beat Carolina?
What if Ottawa could beat Toronto in a P/O series?
What if Toronto could beat Philly in a P/O series?
What if toronto got Gretzky.. ****in ballard..?

 

[mcphee]

I heard the same quote. I do think that the carnival offers solid family entertainment though. I also think the gentlemen and women operating the games of chance have the same level of integrity found on both sides of the current labor dispute. I wish Linden had warned some fans not to buy their kids a snocone before that damn cups and saucer ride.

 

[Frightened Inmate #2]

You sure about that?


During a BCTV interview about the 1994 lockout, a reporter asked Linden his thoughts on rapidly rising player salaries driving ticket prices so high that average families could no longer afford to go to games. Linden's response:

"Let them go to the carnival, then"


Very classy.

Could you provide a link or anything to back that up? I have looked for anything to back up what you state but so far there is nothing. Seems to be a common theme.

 

[PhillyPhantoms]

What if the Flyers had never traded for Lindros?

 

[Zoo]

Pens...

What if Jagr had a heart.

What if Mario stayed healthy.

What if Pilon didn't smash Stevens in 93 playoffs

What if the Penguins had Money !!

What if the Penguins kept Zubov and Naslund

 

[Leaf Lander]

what if all fans were leaf fans

 

[mcphee]

Could you provide a link or anything to back that up? I have looked for anything to back up what you state but so far there is nothing. Seems to be a common theme.

I actually heard this one on Montreal radio the other day. It was a sports talk station, it might have been one of the regualar contributors who come on to discuss hockey issues, I can't remember. It wasn't a clip of Linden though.

 

[mcphee]

what if all fans were leaf fans

I'd buy shares in pharmaceutical companies that made anti depressants.

 

[Vikke]

What if the Flyers didn't trade away Forsberg?
What if Brett Hull's kick goal had been reviewed?

 

[joepeps]

what if all fans were leaf fans

then all the other teams would lose money...

OH WAIT A MIN.. THEY ALREADY ARE....