Any other Hockey fans hear that they're going to move the Phoenix coyotes to Hartford to reform the Whalers? I hope they do, because then I can go root for the Whalers AND the Bruins :D
I've heard these rumors, but I fear that if they did move back to Hartford, bleeding hearts wouldn't let them keep the name Whalers because of the 'negative' connotations. Even though it is referring to the area's history.
Re-formatting may have been easy... but now I have to remember a whole new set of teams! At least my team's division shouldn't be too hard with 2 New Yorks and 2 Penn teams.
Liked this quiz. I kept trying yellow jackets for columbus. My mind drew a blank on some of them...still can't believe that i missed ottawa, tampa bay, carolina, calgary and san jose. oh well.
Great quiz!!! Very easy though. I got 30/30 with 48 seconds left. I created a more challenging quiz. http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/54836/highest-point-scoring-nhl-players-2013-14-season (copy link)
I'm going to break the mold of the standard comment types here and just offer some appreciation for the Quizmasters who go to the effort of keeping their quizzes up to date for as long as some of you do. Thanks.
The team was named after Canadians soldiers who wore a Maple Leaf in WWI. The plural Leafs is actually grammatically correct since it refers to a group and is a proper noun. As a common noun, it wold be maple leaves with maple being an adjective and not considered part of the title or noun.
Crap, 29/30 again, I always forget one. It was the Wild this time... I was browsing a mental map of the US and kind of feeling the missing team had to be somewhere around Minnesoa, but all I could remember was that it was not the North Stars anymore.
28/30... missed the capitals and predators. Not bad for an 11 year old who has never watched a single NHL game in his life. (How? Mostly just studying the scores when hey come up on the "Bottomline" when I'm watching baseball.
I personally don't like hockey because it seems like anarchy. Unlike soccer, the puck moves around so haphazardly and changes possession so frequently that there doesn't seem to be a lot of strategy going on, just a bunch of robust Russians and Canadians slapping the puck as hard as they can towards the other team's goal.
Wow, I can tell you really know a lot about hockey! I'm sure you're right that it's totally random and haphazard and they don't really plan out anything that they do. Maybe they should stop play regularly when one player brushes another so hard that he apparently loses an eye, then they can stand in a line with their hands over their giblets while another guy shoots the puck as hard as he can at them to try to score. That would make way more sense. :-\
While I'm from 'The State of Hockey' I don't think its possible for me to care less about the game. However, I do love ESPN and was curious to see just how many team names I absorbed through osmosis: I scored 30/31; missed the Capitals.
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Completely agree. This is an extremely common & accepted nickname for them, even among English-speaking fans. But I'm a Habs fan, so maybe I'm not entirely objective.
it’s also “american football” not “football”. point is, it doesn’t really matter cause cmon field hockey is really incomparable to ice hockey in popularity.
Go Jackets!!!
Goalies on Detroit
Does that help???
go bolts
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But in the future, as soon as Kraken starts playing, the quiz should be updated of course.