should be fun

i'm guessing it'll run downtown

i'm predicting 250,000 people

6/7/2006 10:27:30 AM

You and your friend Jinxy McGillicutty.

6/7/2006 10:28:12 AM

Die

6/7/2006 10:28:21 AM

6/7/2006 10:28:31 AM

You should go campout now so you get a good spot.

6/7/2006 10:30:29 AM

Don't forget to kiss the Cup when you go to see it at the mall.

6/7/2006 10:31:53 AM

i mean, now that their goalie is out, they have no chance at all. Right?

6/7/2006 10:40:14 AM

No.

Ty Conklin, mistakes aside, has the ability to get hot in a hurry.

Jussi "Rebounds" Markkanen, deserved nickname aside, has pwned the Canes in the past.

Then there's that whole deal with the Canes playing like dog shit for 2/3rds of Game 1.

6/7/2006 10:42:20 AM

screw the parade. the real deal is the riot in Raleigh if we win.

it's been awhile since we've shut down hillsborough st.

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 10:52 AM. Reason : ]

6/7/2006 10:51:32 AM

sweet jesus, don't jinx us

6/7/2006 10:54:42 AM

Yes. "Us."

6/7/2006 10:58:55 AM

I really really REALLY doubt that if the hurrricanes win that there will be any rushing of hillsborough st.

i would love for there to be

but i seriously doubt it

6/7/2006 2:24:39 PM

are there even 250,000 people in raleigh who knew what hockey was a month ago?

6/7/2006 2:43:21 PM

^^ one can always hope. we could demand for the two goals from the ice, and let everyone touch them and carry them down to the middle of hillsborough st. god i hope we win the Stanley Cup. it'd be fitting for me since i felt like the only north carolina native that actually liked hockey when i was real young. all of the hockey fans in north carolina that i met were ones that had relocated from up north.

the perfect situation would be for the canes to win it during game 5 or 7.

^ the Raleigh IceCaps used to have a fairly good following from what i remember. also the Charlotte Checkers did quite well in terms of attendance for many years.

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 3:01 PM. Reason : ]

6/7/2006 2:59:48 PM

if we win you're goddamn right i'll be there

6/7/2006 3:07:28 PM

^^ there's onyl what 2k seats on dorton arena ? that's not saying muhc :x

6/7/2006 4:28:40 PM

if we win, i'll be there as soon as we do. shit will be bananas.

6/7/2006 4:46:42 PM

b-a-n-a-n-a-s

6/7/2006 5:18:57 PM

luckily i live downtown so I'll just walk out my front door and join the party riot!

6/7/2006 5:23:31 PM

i remember playing at Dorton Arena and actually seeing an Ice Caps game there. I thought it was more like 6k seats for ice hockey.

actually i just found some numbers. There are 4,750 permanent seats, 360 box seats and 2,500 portable seats that can be installed when a stage is used. Seating capacity when used with a stage is 7,610. So it probably was around 6,000 for hockey since some portable seats could be installed around the perimeter of the ice.

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 6:36 PM. Reason : ]

6/7/2006 6:30:43 PM

they were already a shitty stanley cup team before he got hurt. now they arent even a playoff team.

6/7/2006 6:40:52 PM

Quote :

"are there even 250,000 people in raleigh who knew what hockey was a month ago?"

they knew what it was, but they certainly didn't know the rules or give a fuck about the league

edit: but i'd probably still go to the parade (if it happens, not something you can do very often)

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 7:02 PM. Reason : dsfsa]

6/7/2006 7:02:04 PM

im pretty sure this will be ncs first professional championship, in major sports at least (i know somebodys gonna come talk about the courage or some shit)

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 7:53 PM. Reason : would be->WILL BE]

6/7/2006 7:52:34 PM

you forgot NASCAR being dominated by NC teams

6/7/2006 8:51:03 PM

last time i checked nascar teams dont "represent" cities/states

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 9:08 PM. Reason : o and american idol is dominated by norcarolinians ]

6/7/2006 9:07:48 PM

last time I checked the Carolina hurricanes don't represent anything at all about the people in NC. Rednecks in fast cars smuggling moonshine has one hell of a tie to NC.

6/7/2006 9:48:05 PM

what so the players would have to be rednecks to represent the state??? you are one stupid ignorant fuck.

6/8/2006 12:36:32 AM

carolina hurricanes

6/8/2006 12:38:42 AM

like i said before in the playoff thread on Monday, " not all of the people from the Carolinas are ass backwards thinking, tobacco chewing, nascar lovers that talk with a thick southern accent!"

6/8/2006 12:42:12 AM

you're right. some of them relocated from the Northeast. that's exactly who the hurricanes represent.

6/8/2006 12:45:15 AM

look you buffalo salad tosser, not everyone here into hockey is a northerner, I was born an hour east of Raleigh, I have been watching hockey since my inception.

6/8/2006 12:50:03 AM

you're talking to eleusis right? i'm a North Carolinian born and raised, and have played ice hockey since i was four, and had a desire to play it since i can remember. i just hate the perception that all North Carolinians are a bunch of lowly educated, rednecks that love nascar. Raleigh is the 2nd or 3rd area with the most people to have post-secondary degrees per capita. it's a highly intelligent area. Charlotte, the other major NC cities and even rural areas of NC have their fair share of well educated people as well.

[Edited on June 8, 2006 at 1:17 AM. Reason : i'm just wanting to make sure i'm not the one being called a Buffalo salad tosser ]

6/8/2006 1:13:36 AM

yea, I was talking to elusis, I highly agree with your statement brass monkey, Ive wanted to actually play for some time now, but where I grew up there was no hockey league, im thinking about trying to play in the adult leagues at the icehouse this fall.

6/8/2006 1:36:35 AM

Quote :

"^ the Raleigh IceCaps used to have a fairly good following from what i remember. also the Charlotte Checkers did quite well in terms of attendance for many years."

Yeah they did pretty well when they started out. They actually made it to the Riley Cup Finals but they lost to Toledo a few years after they started playing. After that, they kind of fell off and weren't all that great. My Dad had season tickets for a few years and it was always fun to go drive down to Dorton. Somehow my Dad knew one or two of the guys in the box and so they let me hit the button for the foghorn during intermissions for 10 and 5 minutes left (as a 4th grader, it's "cool" to do little things like that and chat with Mark Roberts between periods...).

Then I believe the Whalers announced they were moving, the Icecaps' management realized their time in Raleigh was up, and they moved to Augusta I think either a year or two before the 'Canes were playing in Greensboro.

Winston-Salem and Greensboro also were pretty good in supporting their teams when they existed. They were actually pretty competitive but of course they're long gone.

[Edited on June 8, 2006 at 1:53 AM. Reason : .]

6/8/2006 1:38:22 AM

a few years before greensboro canes? the whalers didnt announce the move until the spring of 97 if I remember right, and they played in Greensboro that same fall.

6/8/2006 1:42:44 AM

^My bad.

I stumbled onto the Wikipedia page for "Defunct ECHL teams" and the Icecaps left after the '98 season. So a year after Karmanos announced he was moving the team...but they had left about a year and a half before the 'Canes were playing in the ESA.

6/8/2006 1:50:55 AM

ive never played hockey, had the desire to play, nor watched it ... thats why i am a bandwagon hurricanes fan .. and have no shame in admiting that

this is not a southern sport

6/8/2006 2:03:46 AM

now is the time to get that desire then. despite my longing to play, I have never stepped on an ice rink in a proper pair of skates, so that would put me at the beginner level too

6/8/2006 2:19:58 AM

i have no desire to ever play, or enjoy the sport ... however, i will watch and support the canes

6/8/2006 2:27:26 AM

ahh, im sorry to hear that. Hockey is by far the greatest sport, ever. Its just so great, and exciting.

6/8/2006 2:30:10 AM

^it's a really fun sport

6/8/2006 2:30:37 AM

playing hockey is so much fun, especially if you get good at it. it's faster than any other sport in the world, and no one better not mention NASCAR . i mean imagine the hitting power from football with greater speed, all on two edges of a blade. i always feel the happiest when i'm skating out on some ice. i've envisioned my perfect death to be me out playing some adult league hockey when i'm like 80 something (hopefully i'll still be in fine shape, haha) and i have a heart attack and die on the ice doing what i've loved since i was a kid. then i'm buried with my gloves on, my stick in my hand, my skates on and a puck so that if there is a heaven i can skate up there too.

6/8/2006 2:33:48 AM

brassmonkey,do you play in Raleigh adult leagues? Im trying to figure out how to get into that.

6/8/2006 2:51:13 AM

baseball is america's sport ... hockey is not, esp. in the south (thus all the bandwagon fans)... fun to play, im sure, but its not

Quote :

"The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past"

ditto .. none the less, go canes

6/8/2006 2:51:34 AM

^^^haha damn man, that's kind of intense

6/8/2006 2:52:59 AM

comparing nascar and hockey is like comparing apples and oranges

6/8/2006 2:59:48 AM

^^^^i would recommend going to all of the rinks in the area and checking them out. afterall not all of the have the same conditions. the Ice House in Cary is fairly small b/c it was a former roller rink converted to an ice rink, and the dressing rooms are quite small. it does have that old time hockey feel, and was featured in the movie The Program when Omar Epps' character took Halle Berry's character ice skating. i won State Games Gold Medal on that ice. ah that brings back some memories. it is very close by though, if you live in the area around the university. there's the Ice Plex in North Raleigh, the Rec Zone off of a road i can't remember, then there's the other Ice House in Garner. the Ice Plex seems to have the best ice from what i've seen, but the Garner Ice House is very good too, and has adequately sized locker rooms. the Rec Zone though sells beer! after you think you've decided on which rink you like the best based on location to your where you live(remember you will be traveling there a lot, and gas is high these days), and overall feel of the place, go ask someone (the manager is usually the best to discuss this with) about playing C league adult league hockey for the fall. usually there is an option to continue playing on the same team in the winter at the end of the fall. there's A league which is usually the best of the best in the area. there's B league which is usually made up of decent players, and then there is C league which is for those that have just started out. i wouldn't recommend going out and buying the best equipment right out the box, b/c you might not be completly sure that you like hockey enough that you want to play it regularly. also hockey equipment can be quite expensive. make sure you do get skates with stainless steel blades. yes there are some cheaper skates produced by the big brands that don't have stainless steel blades. why they do this, i have no idea. you'd think that'd be something that would be just standard, since the friction melts the ice, and you get ice shavings on your blades that melt. skates should usually fit snuggly so you don't get blisters, and have plenty of ankle support. the most common thing i saw people that came in and rented skates do wrong while i worked at an ice rink was not tie there skates tightly. they would tie them like somewhat loosely like their shoes. they would end up falling very often, and i believe that's why many people only go skating a few times in their life, b/c they had a bad experience falling during their first time skating. also one last word of advice don't just assume that you will be a right handed or left handed shot based on what hand you write with, how you bowl, golf, etc. i write right handed, bowl right handed, golf right handed, yet with hockey i'm a left handed shot. i always felt more comfortable that way and thought i had better control with my right hand at the top of the stick. it is anyway the primary hand you will be using for stick control. best way to tell is when they're kids. hold the stick out towards the kid with the top, handle area toward them. whichever hand they grab it with is usually the hand that they should have as their top hand.


i don't play any adult league hockey right now. i got a form of rheumatoid arthritis in my knees when i was in the 9th grade, but continued playing all through high school. i had to have 3 surgeries before they just put me on some anti-inflammatory medication to weaken my overreactive immune system. so i've been kind of going easy with it since i came to college. i still go skate some at public skate sessions every now and then, and have been known to catch a pickup game every so often. i'm mainly trying to get through college though. it's kind of tough to do too when you're trying to get two difficult majors and a minor in 4.5 years.

i hope that helps some. i'm sure you won't be disappointed playing ice hockey, when you get the chance.

[Edited on June 8, 2006 at 3:31 AM. Reason : extra ^]

6/8/2006 3:31:06 AM

words

6/8/2006 7:55:04 AM

that is a whole lot of damned words


and I think we're getting away from the point of this thread

6/8/2006 8:48:31 AM

yeah we are. back to talking about the titty-flashing, car tipping, bon-fire starting, drunk in the streets riot, i mean party if we win.

6/8/2006 12:03:13 PM