misc NHL news

[periariyx]

The Saddledome is fucked. Downtown Calgary and much of southern Alberta has been hit hard by intense rainfall resulting in massive flooding. You can donate to the Red Cross here.

Lindy Ruff is the Dallas Stars' new head coach. He refused to have meetings in the crease. Good man.

John Tortorella to be the Vancouver Canucks' new head coach.

Dave

Comments

[dawnfirenight]

The news in Calgary right now is breaking my heart. The Saddledome is my favourite building in the entire world - reading about the lost memorabilia from 1989, not to mention the destroyed dressing rooms and Jumbotron equipment... guess we're definitely getting a new arena after all.

[periariyx]

I know new arena plans were supposed to be announced soon (for real this time! - which makes sense with the apparent impending announcement that Ken King will no longer be president of hockey ops) but gotta think this is gonna speed the process up (and we might end up getting a little extra government money for it now). Right now I'm just wondering if they'll even have it ready for Stampede, let alone get everything fixed for next season.

The lost memorabilia is breaking my heart, especially since Brad McCrimmon and all...

Are you in Calgary right now? Safe? (ftr I'm in the SW and not in any danger of being in an evac zone. That's part of what's so messed up about this for me; without media I'd never even know there was a problem in my city, it's so calm here.)

[dawnfirenight]

I'm in the NW, and in a similar situation to you - I live on top of a hill and am about as safe as you can be, and from where I'm standing, it looks like any other rainstorm. So I feel the same - like these pictures I'm seeing cannot possibly be what is actually happening to my city.

[periariyx]

oh my god I just saw this on my twitter feed

[dawnfirenight]

I saw that on Twitter - he is such a stand-up individual.