Thursday, October 28, 2004
THE OTHER CHALLENGE
First I'd like to remind everyone that due to Wednesday night's events, Chris and Pete have changed the name of their space in the blogosphere from At Least the Red Sox Have 1918 to I Wanna See The World Series!
Okay, so the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years and stuff, so there's not really much other stuff that's going to be on the sports pages in Seattle, especially on the front pages. That said, I've kind of had to stretch for some of the material for tonight. Without further adieu, here be the roundup...
MARINERS
For the 28th year in a row, the Mariners did not get to the World Series, let alone win it.
SEAHAWKS
There's not too much new going on in Seahawk land, so we're relegated to sifting through...
Notebook articles.
Not much other than that Matt Hasselbeck has a sore right heel but will more than likely play Sunday, and Chad Brown will come back from injury as well.
SONICS/STORM
Ron Murray might be close to coming back. This would give the Sonics back their #3 scorer, in coach Nate McMillan's opinion. The Sonics hope to have all three of Murray, Rashard Lewis, and Ray Allen available to play in the opener. Even if they do play, I'd be inclined to say they'd still have to work out the kinks.
Lauren Jackson's having a reconstructive right ankle operation which will keep her out for three months and the entire season for her Aussie team, the Canberra Capitals.
HOCKEY
I've actually got a couple of NHL headlines here, but it's nothing groundbreaking, really.
NHL executive VP Bill Daly and NHLPA senior director Ted Saskin met the other day and talked...about the World Cup. No labor negotiations were going on in that chat, and the two sides haven't talked since September 9th.
What does hockey deity Guy Lafleur think? Says Flower: "If I would be the owners ... if there's no hockey after Christmas or they're losing the entire year, I would file for bankruptcy and start all over again." I saw the Blue Line segment on NW Cable News' Northwest Sports Tonight, and Paul Silvi said Lafleur wanted six teams to be contracted, though the CBC article does not put a number on the amount of teams Lafleur thought should be contracted.
Scott Gomez is suiting up for his hometown Alaska Aces of the East Coast Hockey League. Yes, the ECHL has west coast teams. Some of you may be racking your brain thinking that the Alaska Aces seem familiar. They were a team in the now-defunct West Coast Hockey League along with the also now-defunct Tacoma Sabercats. Basically, Tacoma and another team or two folded, and I think the ECHL made themselves a western division and swallowed up the rest of the leftover WCHL teams.
In the only game of the night around here...
Everett whooped on Kamloops, 6-0. If there's one reason to click on that link, it's to see Mark Kress' hair. It kills me. Anyway, Zach Hamill scored twice, and Michael Wall (still the best goalie name in a while) stopped all 22 shots he faced. As with all shutouts at Everett home games, all fans went home with free batteries, "as part of the Pacific Power Batteries Lights Out promotion."
Upcoming for the weekend in hockey...
Friday: Seattle at Spokane, Vancouver at Brandon, Everett at Tri-City, Manitoba at Rochester, Puget Sound at River City (Beaverton)
Saturday: Kamloops at Seattle, Portland at Everett, Manitoba at Binghamton, Puget Sound at River City (Beaverton)
Sunday: Manitoba at Hamilton
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Have yourselves a merry Thursday, and to all you Red Sox fans out there, please be safe. I'm not saying you have to be productive, just be safe.
Okay, so the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years and stuff, so there's not really much other stuff that's going to be on the sports pages in Seattle, especially on the front pages. That said, I've kind of had to stretch for some of the material for tonight. Without further adieu, here be the roundup...
MARINERS
For the 28th year in a row, the Mariners did not get to the World Series, let alone win it.
SEAHAWKS
There's not too much new going on in Seahawk land, so we're relegated to sifting through...
Notebook articles.
Not much other than that Matt Hasselbeck has a sore right heel but will more than likely play Sunday, and Chad Brown will come back from injury as well.
SONICS/STORM
Ron Murray might be close to coming back. This would give the Sonics back their #3 scorer, in coach Nate McMillan's opinion. The Sonics hope to have all three of Murray, Rashard Lewis, and Ray Allen available to play in the opener. Even if they do play, I'd be inclined to say they'd still have to work out the kinks.
Lauren Jackson's having a reconstructive right ankle operation which will keep her out for three months and the entire season for her Aussie team, the Canberra Capitals.
HOCKEY
I've actually got a couple of NHL headlines here, but it's nothing groundbreaking, really.
NHL executive VP Bill Daly and NHLPA senior director Ted Saskin met the other day and talked...about the World Cup. No labor negotiations were going on in that chat, and the two sides haven't talked since September 9th.
What does hockey deity Guy Lafleur think? Says Flower: "If I would be the owners ... if there's no hockey after Christmas or they're losing the entire year, I would file for bankruptcy and start all over again." I saw the Blue Line segment on NW Cable News' Northwest Sports Tonight, and Paul Silvi said Lafleur wanted six teams to be contracted, though the CBC article does not put a number on the amount of teams Lafleur thought should be contracted.
Scott Gomez is suiting up for his hometown Alaska Aces of the East Coast Hockey League. Yes, the ECHL has west coast teams. Some of you may be racking your brain thinking that the Alaska Aces seem familiar. They were a team in the now-defunct West Coast Hockey League along with the also now-defunct Tacoma Sabercats. Basically, Tacoma and another team or two folded, and I think the ECHL made themselves a western division and swallowed up the rest of the leftover WCHL teams.
In the only game of the night around here...
Everett whooped on Kamloops, 6-0. If there's one reason to click on that link, it's to see Mark Kress' hair. It kills me. Anyway, Zach Hamill scored twice, and Michael Wall (still the best goalie name in a while) stopped all 22 shots he faced. As with all shutouts at Everett home games, all fans went home with free batteries, "as part of the Pacific Power Batteries Lights Out promotion."
Upcoming for the weekend in hockey...
Friday: Seattle at Spokane, Vancouver at Brandon, Everett at Tri-City, Manitoba at Rochester, Puget Sound at River City (Beaverton)
Saturday: Kamloops at Seattle, Portland at Everett, Manitoba at Binghamton, Puget Sound at River City (Beaverton)
Sunday: Manitoba at Hamilton
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Have yourselves a merry Thursday, and to all you Red Sox fans out there, please be safe. I'm not saying you have to be productive, just be safe.
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