What would happen..

"David Loewe, Jr." <dloewe RemoveThis @mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:54:36 GMT, "Aeroplan" <aplan967 RemoveThis @shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>"Bryan S. Slick" <onyx_hokie RemoveThis @yahoo.cem> wrote in message
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>>> :well - there is - there is the traveling Cup and the one that stays in
>>> :Toronto at the HHOF
>>>
>>> How long before they move the HHOF to somewhere in the States to better
>>> reflect the current state of affairs in the NHL?
>>
>>When more than 4 Americans play in the NHL,
>
> This bate made me laugh.
>
> There are 7 American players on your Stanley Cup Champion Carolina
> Hurricanes.
>
>>and when more than 7 people watch the games.
>>
>>Poker has better tv ratings in the US.
>
> I bet ratings would eventually go up if they show shots while play is
> going on from the bench side so you could see what's happening along
> the near side boards.
> --
> "Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make
> him pay cash."
> -Lazarus Long

Probably, so now if a network other then OLN picks up some games, perhaps
they could do that.

It's a shame becuase hockey is fun to watch, but it just doesn't seem to
sell well in the US.

Joel K. 'Jay' Furr wrote:

> Bryan S. Slick wrote:
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>>[ 19 Jun 2006 20:17:52 -0700 ]
>>[ Joel K. 'Jay' Furr | jayfurr RemoveThis @gmail.com ]
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>>:Bryan S. Slick wrote:
>>:> ..how big of a deal would it be..
>>:>
>>:> ..if a player skating around with it..
>>:>
>>:> ..DROPPED the Stanley Cup?
>>:
>>:It's happened. MANY 'orrible things have happened to that. They have
>>:to hammer dents out of it now and then.
>>:
>>:Google on "Guy Carbonneau", "Vinnie Paul" and "Stanley Cup", for
>>:example.
>>:
>>:Mark Messier took it to a strip club in Edmonton and let patrons drink
>>:out of it. They wound up taking it to an auto shop to hammer the dents
>>:out of it.
>>
>>I didn't know that.. thanks for the information.
>>
>>Has any version of the Stanley Cup ever been destroyed?
>>
>>(I would bet there's two identical copies of the thing, for
>>emergencies.)
>
>
> There are three.
>
> The original bowl, which they keep at the HHOF.
>
> A duplicate, which they awarded tonight and which travels around with
> the champions.
>
> A replica, kept for display at the HHOF when the current traveling
> trophy is out traveling.
>
> (The original bowl is fairly brittle at this point and wouldn't take
> all the drop-kicking.)
>
> The original got some fairly bad engraving over the years and isn't
> much to look at, to be honest. Some teams did some pretty strange
> things to it in the early days.
>

Link?

Jack