ravencallscrows | (no subject)

The Stanley Cup, it would appear, is twenty minutes away from residing in Tampa Bay.

What a fitting way for the NHL to die.

I've managed to blow off the last few entries in the annual In Memoriam series, i know. Call it simply not caring any longer which set of multi-millionaire players wins sports' best known trophy for which multi-millionaire ownership group which continually whinges about losing money while continuing to pay ever increasing salaries and pricing the fans out of the game. Bugger the players, the owners, the league and the union. All the greedy bastards can go fuck right off. As much a fan of the game as i am, i don't expect to see a successful end to the Collective Bargaining Agreement in any way that will leave the league fundamentally intact. And the players can go off and play in the Russian, Swedish, Finnish, German etc. leagues and perhaps we'll see the international game.

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I never said that i remembered the team itself. I simply remembered that there had been a team. My father (though he, too, is not old enough to have known them directly) told me about them while I was growing up.His father, however, DID see the team while it was in existence. Unfortunately, I had moved out of Washington by the fall of 1968, so I never had the pleasure of watching a Washington team play.

Oh, you could have seen the Ironmen/ Bombers/Americans/Totems (same team, four different names) play- they lived from '45-'46 to '74-'74, although the Ironmen and Bombers names would have been too early (living up to '53-'54).

No, i don't have all this committed to memory- just happened to trip across it when i verified the date the Metropolitans folded- check SeattleHockey.net for a pretty exhaustive coverage of hockey history in the area. (http://www.seattlehockey.net) ()