Around the NHL 2023-2024

[ChicagoBlues]

I still remember that 1994 series as well!!!

That was my favorite Cup Final G7 cuz I was the only Rangers fan at an otherwise 100% Canucks celebration party. Much fun!!

 

[Blueston]

That was my favorite Cup Final G7 cuz I was the only Rangers fan at an otherwise 100% Canucks celebration party. Much fun!!

presumably you say was because it has since been surpassed by 2019?

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

That Canucks / Rangers Final was the first year I really followed the playoffs closely too. It was a great playoffs all around. The intensity of the post-season was palpable every game I watched. Got me hooked on the sport, although I wasn't a Blues fan yet (since I didn't live in St Louis until MUCH later).

 

[ChicagoBlues]

presumably you say was because it has since been surpassed by 2019?

Well...besides that one.

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

Everyone in here talkin about the 94 series….you guys are old!

 

[wiscrev]

Everyone in here talkin about the 94 series….you guys are old!

Hey, hey, hey! Age is just a number. I'll soon turn 80 but I'm really 45! I know guys that are 50 and look and act like 80! I'm super active. I also have know guys who retired and sat around, and they were dead within a year or two----I'm not that guy.

 

[PocketNines]

This is what I remember about the 94 series - I remember that Game 7 was on Tuesday June 14 - because rather than attend my own college graduation, I preferred the chance to drive across the country to San Francisco meet up with a friend to drive with him back to Boston and then fly back to San Francisco.

So ho hum, I arrive in SF the morning of June 12, unload my 1977 3/4 ton chevy pickup Love Truck that got gallons per mile, find a place to park it for a week, take a nap, and pile back into friend's car around 9pm to get a few hours head start on the drive. For some reason he only wanted to listen to tapes at the beginning so for the next two days there was no news. Well neither one of us had ever been to North Dakota so we went up into Montana out of our way to "get" the state. And while we are up there it's Tuesday afternoon, and I am thinking yeah it's daytime but we can probably still get some AM station out of Canada which will definitely be playing Game 7 on the radio and we can listen.

So we turned it on and it was so weird, we couldn't make sense of what everyone was talking about. They were talking about some story in a way that everyone listening was already far more up to speed than we were. It sure sounded like someone maybe stabbed OJ! And it was every station. The radio was so staticky and I recall we only got to listen to the later part of the game as the Canucks desperately tried to tie it

 

[LogosBlue]

That Canucks / Rangers Final was the first year I really followed the playoffs closely too. It was a great playoffs all around. The intensity of the post-season was palpable every game I watched. Got me hooked on the sport, although I wasn't a Blues fan yet (since I didn't live in St Louis until MUCH later).

Me too. This was the first playoffs i really watched and i was immediately hooked. The Richter / Brodeur matchup before that was epic. Those guys / teams were playing out of their mind. Also, Pavel Bure was a beast. The Russian Rocket name was appropriate.

Messier calling a win was epic!!

 

[Brockon]

Preds sending McDonough back to Tampa. Lightning really missed him last couple years. Not sure what else Tampa has planned, but this doesn’t seem to make finding cap space for stamkos easier. Wonder what else they have planned.

Not sure if Stamkos is eligible for a 35+ contract (turns 35 in Feb). But, if he can sign one of those - Tampa may give him a bonus laden contract with an easily attainable bonus (10 gp or something like that) and push the bonus payment over to 25/26.

 

[Brian39]

Not sure if Stamkos is eligible for a 35+ contract (turns 35 in Feb). But, if he can sign one of those - Tampa may give him a bonus laden contract with an easily attainable bonus (10 gp or something like that) and push the bonus payment over to 25/26.

He's not eligible. You have to be 35+ before the contract kicks in.

 

[STL fan in MN]

That Canucks / Rangers Final was the first year I really followed the playoffs closely too. It was a great playoffs all around. The intensity of the post-season was palpable every game I watched. Got me hooked on the sport, although I wasn't a Blues fan yet (since I didn't live in St Louis until MUCH later).

My dad started taking me to Blues games in the late 80s. He split season tickets with 2 of his friends so each ended up with 2 tickets to 27ish games. The night of Game 7 of the 1994 Cup Final is the only time I ever met these 2 other dudes. My dad took me to a bar somewhere downtown and we all watched the game together. I remember being really enthralled with that series and rooting for Bure.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Everyone in here talkin about the 94 series….you guys are old!

I will never be older than 5. Never! Aaaggghhhh!!!!

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Me too. This was the first playoffs i really watched and i was immediately hooked. The Richter / Brodeur matchup before that was epic. Those guys / teams were playing out of their mind. Also, Pavel Bure was a beast. The Russian Rocket name was appropriate.

Messier calling a win was epic!!

Adam Graves was my favorite player on that team. And Vanbiesbrouck before that Cup!! Bies and Richter were a great tandem until Florida selected Bies in the expansion draft.

 

[LogosBlue]

Wasn't 94 the year Modano single handedly kicked the Blues out of the playoffs?

 

[ScratchCatFever]

Wasn't 94 the year Modano single handedly kicked the Blues out of the playoffs?

Modano and a guy named Darcy Wakaluk who absolutely stood on his head in relief of an injured Andy Moog. I don't know that I ever heard that guy's name again after that series ended.

 

[Xerloris]

Richter was my guy in the 94 finals.

 

[STL fan in MN]

1994 was a heck of a year.

Stanley Cup Finals
Lots of good movies - Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Forest Gump, Dumb and Dumber, Lion King etc.
OJ’s Bronco chase
Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding drama
Pretty sure I attended my first party that involved booze and boobies in 1994 too. What a time to be alive!

 

[Hrkac Circus]

Own goal by LaFreniere to ice game 1 for the Panthers. Ouch.

 

[stl76]

Own goal by LaFreniere to ice game 1 for the Panthers. Ouch.

Yeah that was brutal to watch. Feel bad for the kid.

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

1994 was a heck of a year.

Stanley Cup Finals
Lots of good movies - Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Forest Gump, Dumb and Dumber, Lion King etc.
OJ’s Bronco chase
Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding drama
Pretty sure I attended my first party that involved booze and boobies in 1994 too. What a time to be alive!

I was too busy being 2 lol

 

[shpongle falls]

1994 was a heck of a year.

Stanley Cup Finals
Lots of good movies - Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Forest Gump, Dumb and Dumber, Lion King etc.
OJ’s Bronco chase
Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding drama
Pretty sure I attended my first party that involved booze and boobies in 1994 too. What a time to be alive!

To add to your list the music was incredible that year too. For me the 90’s was the peak of civilization, its weird that’s so much time has passed since then.

 

[Reality Czech]

To add to your list the music was incredible that year too. For me the 90’s was the peak of civilization, its weird that’s so much time has passed since then.

I would agree, everything has gone downhill since the 90s. Crazy to think we're closer to 2050 than 1997.

 

[STL fan in MN]

I would agree, everything has gone downhill since the 90s. Crazy to think we're closer to 2050 than 1997.

 

[ScratchCatFever]

I was 7 in 1994 and remember thinking that the year 2000 seemed like a lifetime away. Cell phones were the size of a Pringles can. The world was in shock after the death of Kurt Cobain and owning a computer would've been considered a luxury. Those '94 playoffs are definitely imprinted on my mind as the first NHL postseason that had me glued to the TV. I can remember going to bed at 9 and waiting until the old man settled in and sneaking into the basement to watch the Calgary Vancouver series where Bure won it for the Canucks in double OT of game 7. Jesus.. Where the hell did 30 years go and what happened to the world in the process??

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

To add to your list the music was incredible that year too. For me the 90’s was the peak of civilization, its weird that’s so much time has passed since then.

You seem to be underrating the internet and ubiquitous smart phones, at least for the potential for benefiting mankind. I won’t argue that these tools are often being perverted into detriments.