Now that the Stanley Cup fever has officially dies down, many hockey fans are looking to their favorite team’s management for something to cheer about. Fans of all teams have many questions that will be answered in the next few months leading into next season.
The Questions
What does your favorite team have planned for the off season?
What does the prospect pool look like? Who are their potential draft picks in each round?
Are there any free agents out there that would make a good fit?
Newsworthy Nuggets
Shop.NHL.com Says Ovechkin is League MVP
According to James Mirtle, the following shirt depicting the 2007-2008 NHL MVP has been spotted already on the shop.nhl.com website. Oops!
Click here to go to shop.nhl.com to buy this shirt and other new items.
Where To Sit?
Many season ticket holders have the same questions as Wild Puck Banter…where to sit next year?
My problem now is I have to decide where the best spot to sit would be. On ice level next to the glass? On the red line up a few rows? It seems like knowledgeable hockey wonks like best to sit up high in the corners, so they can see plays develop. As it stands now I’m leaning to purchasing seats right next to the visitor’s bench…
Scratch and Dent Sale
The Red Wings already committed the sin of dropping the Stanley Cup at a visit to Chris Chelios’ restaurant. The cup has been through a lot worse than this over the years and will be just fine.
NHL spokeswoman Bernadette Mansur said on Saturday that the Cup got a slight dent Friday after some players took the trophy to Cheli’s Chili Bar, a downtown restaurant owned by Red Wings defenseman Chris Chelios. Mansur says a keeper of the Cup traveling with the trophy was able to smooth out the dent.
Another Country Song In Nashville
William “Boots” Del Biaggio, a Silicon Valley financier, who owns a stake in the NHL’s Nashville Predators has filed for personal Chapter 11 bankruptcy just weeks after being accused of loan fraud. It appears that the saving grace of the Predators who “rode in on a white horse to save the franchise from Jim Balsillie” is not quite what he was cracked up to be.
While the filing didn’t list the 40-year-old businessman’s assets or debts, a list of the biggest unsecured claims against him shows that he has at least $57 million in unpaid personal and business loans, credit card bills and other financial obligations.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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