CrashingTheGoalie

by desertdawg

Yogi Berra said that. And what I’m observing by watching is a team that is not in synch. Canuck broadcasters used terms like “almost” and “nearly” a half dozen times in the first period alone. As in, they almost made that pass or they nearly converted that scoring chance.
Synchronicity.
The Canucks had [...]

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by Ron Spence
There’s no MLB salary cap, or maximum salary that a player can receive. The NHL, however, has both a Salary Cap and a maximum player salary.
Both leagues have minimum salaries.
NHL.com writes about minimum salaries: “The minimum NHL player salary is $475,000 in 2008-09; $500,000 in 2009-10 and 2010-11, and $525,000 in 2011-12.”
MLB’s minimum [...]

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by desertdawg

A number of years ago, when the Winnipeg Jets were facing the Canucks in the first round of the playoffs, I asked the Jets head coach John Paddock if the fact that his team had not beaten the Canucks during the regular season would be a factor in these playoffs.
He paused, and then [...]

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by Ron Spence
This post compares the top hockey and baseball salaries.
As is quickly apparent, the top baseball player makes 280% more that the top hockey player. The reasons? Hockey has a salary cap and baseball doesn’t. And, baseball has the lucrative TV contracts.

The list of baseball salaries is provided by: proathletesonly.com.
NHL.com writes the following about Maximum Salaries:  [...]

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by desert dawg
I think it was Casey Stengel, the great New York Yankees Manager who uttered those famous words. Okay, you say it was Yogi Berra? Take a number and sue me.
And even though it boggles the mind to read it in cold print, the point Casey was making was true about all sports. The [...]

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by desert dawg
Back in the late 80’s the Canucks brought in famed Russian soldiers Igor Larionov and Vlad Krutov and we were bound to win the Stanley Cup. Of course, it didn’t work that way because Krutov trained at Tim Hortons and Larionov couldn’t do it all by himself. But it presented those of us [...]

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by Ron Spence
Overseeing the congregation of Notre Dame are the Gargoyles. The word comes from the late Latin “gurgulio”, which means throat.

courtesy of travel.guardian.co.uk
Overseeing the Cathedral of the Latter Day Joe, is an octopus.
The Rite of the Octopi was introduced during the 1952 playoffs.
In those days – of fewer teams – you could win the [...]

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by Ron Spence
Peter McNab is this big, friendly guy with many hockey contacts and all sorts of hockey moxie.
He played in the NHL for such teams as the Canucks and Bruins, and his father, Max was a hockey icon. He played with the Red Wings on one Stanley Cup team, and finished his playing career [...]

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by Ron Spence
There are four people in the picture below. How many Stanley Cups did they win between them? How many Hart Trophies? How many scoring trophies?

courtesy of blog.mlive.com
This group have won 15 Hart Trophies (NHL MVP), 16 Art Ross Trophies (NHL’s leading scorer), and 10 Stanley Cups.
Gordie Howe won 6 Hart Trophies, 6 Art [...]

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by Ron Spence
The following quote has been altered throughout the years, but you can quickly get the jist of it.
“Suppose you were working at your job one day,” Jacques Plante quipped, “and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood [...]

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