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Gentlemen – Im back. Took a little for me to get registered here, but glad a number of you have come over as well. Seems like HockeyBuzz is dying. Less and less blogs and less and less comments on those blogs.
Someone on HockeyBuzz posted the following trade for Pittsburgh/Chicago:
Karlsson (50% retained)
Rakell
#11for
#3
#25My first thought was it wasnt a terrible offer.
Can’t see Karlsson waving his NTC to go to Chicago. He wants a cup.
Unless Chicago promises to let him do whatever he wants all year to boost points then double retains on him come trade deadline.
Anyone else feel like they got coal in their stocking with that 1rst round? I know it wasn’t a deep draft year, but damn.
I was more excited for this draft than I have been in a long time. Even did a lot of research and had 2 reasonable names that I really, really wanted at 11 and 12…McQueen and Aitcheson. Would have been the perfect 2 guys to start the rebuild and change the team’s pussyified no toughness, no balls Sully identity. Sucks we missed McQueen by a pick, but still could have had something we haven’t had in forever…a mean SOB beast of a Dman. Hurts twice as much that he went to the Isles, as well as Eklund who I’d rather have had than any of our picks. Instead from most reports, we reached 3 times and came away with a pair of 3rd line centers and a 3rd line wing.
Hi All! I was a long time reader on HB, but could never comment because I could not get the login to work!
Glad I found this site and everyone here (via a new post to an old blog on HB) and that I will be able to participate in the dicsussions!Hi All! I was a long time reader on HB, but could never comment because I could not get the login to work!
Glad I found this site and everyone here (via a new post to an old blog on HB) and that I will be able to participate in the dicsussions!Welcome aboard!
Anyone else feel like they got coal in their stocking with that 1rst round? I know it wasn’t a deep draft year, but damn.
I was more excited for this draft than I have been in a long time. Even did a lot of research and had 2 reasonable names that I really, really wanted at 11 and 12…McQueen and Aitcheson. Would have been the perfect 2 guys to start the rebuild and change the team’s pussyified no toughness, no balls Sully identity. Sucks we missed McQueen by a pick, but still could have had something we haven’t had in forever…a mean SOB beast of a Dman. Hurts twice as much that he went to the Isles, as well as Eklund who I’d rather have had than any of our picks. Instead from most reports, we reached 3 times and came away with a pair of 3rd line centers and a 3rd line wing.
100% disappointed we missed on Aitcheson and hopefully kindel proves us doubters wrong but I still don’t think he was the best player available
Hey guys, I wanted to comment on HB and how surprised and disappointed I am in how that site was run into the ground. I was one of the refs there for many years, and I have to say I was so surprised and disappointed when Eric, Bill and Mike all left, the writing was on the wall. I also know that EK wasn’t paying the bloggers for extended periods which is still happening to this day.
Then out of the blue, posters were getting banned for absolutely ridiculous reasons like 3 months for a ????, then they started to get to multiple year bans, myself and Dozzer tried to get answers but our posts just got deleted, if he could have given us multiple months bans I’m sure he would have.
Today several more blogs have been deleted, guess it’s easier than paying the bloggers.But I will say I enjoyed the format of HB, and in the beginning decade there were some great bloggers, excluding Matt Berry and Cloutier.
Happy to see this site up and running and that there is a good group of bloggers, if only Bill could entice Carol Schram to blog for the Canucks it would be grand.
So, I hadnt been over to HB in a few weeks. Thought to have a look this morning and Ek’s main story caught my attention, so I opened it up for a read. He’s saying that the bans were random because of site glitches. I can post there again. There is now only like 6 or 7 team blogs in total.
“Hey gang.
This website is 15 years old.
Hockeybuzz itself has been around for 20 years, but this version of the website is 15 years old. As an in dependent website, paying our own boills and trying to create a place for you guys to come and be able to talk and discuss all sorts of hickey topics there never seems to be a right time to re-launch a new version…. I definitely wasn’t going to do it with the draft and free agency, because that is one of our busiest times of the year….
But the website is a mess and I have a whole bunch of new writers, many of whom have not even been posted yet on here because of how messed up the website is. Also, there have been blogs and comments disappearing, and people being banned for no reason at all. Along with other data issues, which affected many of you being able to login…..
The new website is really awesome, and I hope that 15-year-old hockeybuzz.com would survive until the site was ready and everything was hopping…. I fear that I asked too much of it.
We have three different teams working on this right now. One is trying to just fix all the database problems on the current site. Another is putting the finishing touches on the future site. And another that is developing a short-term solution that will be a temporary site without the bells and whistles, but will function properly and will enable everybody to post and us to launch new writers, etc.
The temporary site is coming in a few days here…. The full site will be here not that long after…
But at our core, we need to be a site that enables writers to write and readers to comment…
Again, I really appreciate the patience and I’m trying to answer all the emails I’ve gotten. If your season ticket got messed up, you’ll be automatically upped for an extra year.
I am not a coder nor am I a technical person, so it’s time for me to get back to rumors and why you come here, but I just wanted to make sure that you understood what is going on….
Cheers”
So, I hadnt been over to HB in a few weeks. Thought to have a look this morning and Ek’s main story caught my attention, so I opened it up for a read. He’s saying that the bans were random because of site glitches. I can post there again. There is now only like 6 or 7 team blogs in total.
“Hey gang.
This website is 15 years old.
Hockeybuzz itself has been around for 20 years, but this version of the website is 15 years old. As an in dependent website, paying our own boills and trying to create a place for you guys to come and be able to talk and discuss all sorts of hickey topics there never seems to be a right time to re-launch a new version…. I definitely wasn’t going to do it with the draft and free agency, because that is one of our busiest times of the year….
But the website is a mess and I have a whole bunch of new writers, many of whom have not even been posted yet on here because of how messed up the website is. Also, there have been blogs and comments disappearing, and people being banned for no reason at all. Along with other data issues, which affected many of you being able to login…..
The new website is really awesome, and I hope that 15-year-old hockeybuzz.com would survive until the site was ready and everything was hopping…. I fear that I asked too much of it.
We have three different teams working on this right now. One is trying to just fix all the database problems on the current site. Another is putting the finishing touches on the future site. And another that is developing a short-term solution that will be a temporary site without the bells and whistles, but will function properly and will enable everybody to post and us to launch new writers, etc.
The temporary site is coming in a few days here…. The full site will be here not that long after…
But at our core, we need to be a site that enables writers to write and readers to comment…
Again, I really appreciate the patience and I’m trying to answer all the emails I’ve gotten. If your season ticket got messed up, you’ll be automatically upped for an extra year.
I am not a coder nor am I a technical person, so it’s time for me to get back to rumors and why you come here, but I just wanted to make sure that you understood what is going on….
Cheers”
Will believe it when I see it, on the positive note — this site isn’t cancer to my computer or phone. I like it.
He’s saying that the bans were random because of site glitches.
Not buying that. I commented for the first time in years on his main FA blog and said, “Remember when this place used to crash on deadline day, lol” and got banned an hour later.
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