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LOL, this is where we draw the line, but we are both from Jersey though. Don't get me wrong, I don't despise the Devils in the way I would the Phillies or Cowboys. In fact I've never minded the Devils, except when it comes to playing them, that's a different story. Anyways my dad grew up in NY a Rangers fan & he took me to 2 games years ago, they only sports influence he hasn't had on me was being a Jets fan. We were about 7 rows behind the goalie. I'm gonna try to get tickets this year, but paying for them is gonna be a pain, even on eBay...
One of my friends backed out of fantasy hockey, leaving one more spot left for my fantasy league. JC you want in?? Only thing is the draft is tonight at 8:30. Let me know...
lol i see what your saying. my brother has been a die hard Devils fan for like, ever...and hes been bringing me to games with him for years now, so the die hard faithfulness has rubbed off on me lol. Ill hopefully be getting to a bunch of games this year between my brother bringing me, and my friend who has tickets to 31 games, so im looking foward to it lol.
and nah man i dont do any of the fantasy hockey stuff. tried it one year, and had no idea what i was doing and came in dead last lol. and i tend to forget about it leaving it unchanged for days on end lol. thanks for the offer though
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Ok no problem. This is my 1st time in fantasy hockey. I just figured I would give it a whirl. The only thing I can't stand is having an odd number of teams because one team will have a bye every week.
In the last few years, I've been real big on fantasy spots. One thing I take from it is learning about other players as well as teams. I like to learn as much as I can so I know what my pro teams or fantasy teams are up against.
My fantasy record:
2006 Football: 3rd place (of 8)
Basketball (boring): 7th place (of 14)
2007 Football: 3rd place (of 10)
Football Pick Em': 4 (of 11) Baseball: 1st place (of 10)
2008: Baseball: 3rd place (of 10)
Baseball (Stolen Base league, waste of time): 3rd place (of 5)
Football: Currently 4th place (of 10)
Hockey: Drafting tonight...
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i dont get what you mean with have a bye every week...fantasy hockey isnt head to head match-ups, atleast the league that i played in. It was based on the points that each teams players earned...some play some nights, and others play other nights, so basically its a daily check-up on your team.
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You can pick which kind of scoring you want to play by. The people in the league I play in, whether it be football, baseball, basketball or hockey are more partial to head-to-head scoring, which it is set up as.
What I mean by the bye week is something like this...
Week one matchups
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
Team 5
Team 6
Team 7
Nobody.
Team 7 would have a bye already, then next week, say team 7 will be matched up against say team 3, but now team 4 has a bye. So there will be a bye week every week, but for a different team. Lucky for me, I had no idea I was supposed to set the draft to "ready". I thought you just set a draft date & it's ready to go (it's my first year as commissioner, so cut me a break.) So now the draft is next thursday. What this does do for the league is it gives us a chance to find an 8th team to even everything out though. Call it a blessing in disguise...
Rangers are 4-0 for the first time since the 83-84 season. I think they had a 4-0 lead before the Flyers scored 3 times, but Valiquette made some great saves in the last 5 or 6 minutes. You ready for monday JC?? I know I am!!!
Very sad day today in the Rangers organization. Last year's first round pick Alexei Cherepanov died of an apparent heart attack. He was only 19 years old. Here's the full story...
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Alexei Cherepanov, the New York Rangers' first pick (No. 17) in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, has died after suffering an apparent heart attack Monday during a game with Avangard Omsk, his club in the Kontinental Hockey League.
The 19-year-old Cherepanov had 8 goals and 13 points in 15 games this season, his third with Omsk.
Cherepanov had scored the game's first goal in what ended as a 5-4 loss for Omsk against Vityav Chekhov.
"We are extremely saddened by the tragic passing of Alexei," said Rangers General Manager Glen Sather. "On behalf of the New York Rangers organization, I would like to extend our deepest sympathies to his family. Alexei was an intelligent, energetic young man, with tremendous talent and an extremely bright future."
The Rangers had been hoping to bring Cherepanov to New York for the club's prospect evaluation camp or training camp, but with the lack of a formal transfer agreement between the NHL and International Ice Hockey Federation, Cherepanov remained in Russia, with the Rangers hoping to bring him over for the 2009-10 season.
"It (the Russian league) is not as physical as our hockey over here, but it's very skilled," Gordie Clark, the Rangers' director of player personnel, told NHL.com this summer. "It's a fast-moving, very skilled league, and he manages to continue scoring points in it."
Cherepanov was the top-ranked European skater heading into his draft year, and backed up his credentials with 29 points in 47 games with Omsk when it played in the Russian Super League. He had more points in his first year in the RSL than Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin and Ilya Kovalchuk, and his 18 goals in 2006-07 broke Pavel Bure's RSL rookie scoring record.
"He was close to a complete package," said Goran Stubb, NHL Director of European Scouting. "Very fast skater. He was a goal scorer and a passer.
"I think he could have been a big spectator favorite because he was that kind of player. Sometimes you could hardly notice him, but on one shift, he could do unbeliveable things with the puck -- passing, shooting, skating, extremely skillful. A finesse player with a capital 'F.'"
That he slipped to No. 17 in the draft was a major surprise, one the Rangers were extremely thankful for.
"There are going to be a lot of teams that say, 'Geez, I can't believe he was still there,' " Clark told the New York Daily News after the team picked Cherepanov." But we had him going way, way before this. The guy has got an incredible pair of hands and head on him."
Cherepanov represented Russia at numerous international tournaments. He was named the best forward at the 2007 World Junior Championships after he finished with a tournament-high 5 goals, and his 8 points led the Russian team in scoring and to the silver medal. He had 3 goals and 6 points in six games at the 2008 WJC as Russia won the bronze.
"He was a great kid," Cherepanov's agent, Jay Grossman told TSN. "He had a great smile and was an outstanding player with a great future on and off the ice. It's both shocking and devastating news for all of us."
R.I.P. Alexei. My thoughts & prayers go out to his family.
Kick some ass tonight Rangers, do it for Alexei!!!
Very sad day today in the Rangers organization. Last year's first round pick Alexei Cherepanov died of an apparent heart attack. He was only 19 years old. Here's the full story...
R.I.P. Alexei. My thoughts & prayers go out to his family.
Kick some ass tonight Rangers, do it for Alexei!!!
It's scary, just knowing that I'm a year younger than him. He was always looked at as an outstanding person off the ice & Jagr said he was good enough to be on the 2nd line already in New York. It's unbelievable...
MOSCOW (AP) -Alexei Cherepanov had heart problems and probably should not have been allowed to play in a game in which he collapsed and died, a regional investigator suggested Tuesday.
Yulia Zhukova said Cherepanov, who died Monday playing for Avangard Omsk in a Continental Hockey League game outside of Moscow, apparently had chronic ischemia - a medical condition when not enough blood gets to the heart or other organs.
"Checks will be conducted to clarify, in particular, why the sportsman with such an illness went onto the ice," Zhukova said.
Cherepanov's agent, however, said NHL tests showed him to be healthy.
A lawmaker suggested that the 19-year-old first-round draft pick for the New York Rangers may have died due to negligence on the part of paramedics.
Pavel Krasheninnikov, who sits on the Russian Hockey Federation's supervisory council and is a member of the State Duma, said there was no ambulance on duty at the Moscow region arena where Cherepanov was playing.
He also asserted emergency workers took too long to respond and didn't have a defibrillator - a medical machine that shocks the heart. It was unclear how much time it took paramedics to respond.
"There are elements of negligence here," Krasheninnikov said.
Vladimir Shalayev, the managing director for the newly formed Russian league, said a preliminary autopsy showed Cherepanov had a "hypertrophied heart."
"It has nothing to do with yesterday's game, there were absolutely no injuries," Shalayev said in televised comments. "He was not injured during this game."
Cherepanov's agent, Jay Grossman, said the player had tests at the NHL combine before last year's draft that didn't reveal any heart problems. He has been told that players in the Russian league receive regular heart and blood tests, similar to those given in the NHL.
The incident caught the attention of a high-level government meeting, chaired by President Dmitry Medvedev, to discuss how to revitalize Russia's deep sporting traditions.
"A person should not be allowed to take part in competition if he has ischemic heart disease," sports minister Vitaly Mutko said. "This means that in fact there is no preliminary health control and monitoring. And this system should be very well-defined."
Former Rangers captain Jaromir Jagr played a shift with Cherepanov and was talking to him on the bench shortly after they left the ice. Cherepanov then suddenly collapsed, according to a Rangers spokesman who talked to Jagr.
There was no collision that preceded the collapse, the spokesman said.
Amateur video taken at the match showed players and coaches gathered around the Avangard bench and then carrying a player who appeared to be Cherepanov.
Cherepanov scored the first goal Monday and had eight in 15 games this season, his third with Avangard Omsk.
"It was really kind of a surreal thing for the players," Grossman told The Associated Press. "He was skating in on a 2-on-1 with Jaromir and then they came back to the bench. Jaromir was talking to him and he told him he has
it was a good game
