well said by biron

I'm pretty sure they said last night that tonights game will be on TV tonight?

Here's a list of Televised Pre-Season games from CDC. Some guy pulled it from his Digital Box Guide. It's been pretty accurate so far.

* Sept. 14 vs New York Islanders – Sportsnet Pacific
* Sept. 17 vs Anaheim Ducks – Sportsnet Pacific
* Sept. 21 vs Calgary Flames – Sportsnet Pacific
* Sept. 23 vs San Jose Sharks – Sportsnet Pacific
* Sept. 26 vs Calgary Flames – TSN2

If anyone cares. Presale of Open Practice is on till 5 pm. Code is GMPLACE.

Tickets are free.... sort of. Handling charge of 4.25 or somethng like that.

http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/110...7E2E9?did=blue


From an e-mail...........

As a benefit of being a member of the Canucks family, you can reserve tickets to the Canucks Open Practice on Saturday, October 10 before the general public!

Don't miss this opportunity to watch your favorite Canucks players take to the ice in preparation for their October 11 match up against the Dallas Stars! Fans are encouraged to arrive early to watch the Alumni game from 10:00-11:00am and to participate in the pre-practice concourse activities including face-painting, air hockey and an assortment of other games. Fans will also have the chance to win great prizes including autographed sticks used by Canucks players during practice. The festivities will also include a Canucks shootout challenge as well as appearances by FIN, the Canucks Mascot, and the Mike’s On-Ice Team.

In addition, the Canucks Open Practice will be the first “Peanut Restricted” event at General Motors Place. In an effort to accommodate fans with peanut allergies, peanuts will not be sold at this event.

There is no charge for admission, but each order will be subject to a $4.25 handling fee. A limit of 4 tickets per household applies. Reserve tickets online by clicking the link below or by calling Charge-by-Phone at 604.280.4400 (toll free 1.888.663.9311).


EXCLUSIVE PRE-SALE PERIOD:
Friday, September 18 @ 12PM – Friday, September 18 @ 5PM

PASSWORD:
GMPLACE

TSN.ca ALERT: Sources: Maple Leafs and Bruins reach an agreement on a trade that will send Phil Kessel to Toronto.

Sources tell TSN the Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins have reached an agreement on a trade that will deliver Phil Kessel to the Leafs.

The trade is pending Kessel agreeing to a contract with Toronto. It's a process the Leafs are working on right now.

If the contract gets done, the deal is finalized and the trade goes through. If the Maple Leafs are unable to come to terms on a contract with Kessel, the deal may fall through.

The trade would end a saga that began during the lead-up to the NHL Draft when Kessel originally appeared to be headed to Toronto in exchange for defenceman Tomas Kaberle and a draft pick. However, the deal was scuttled at the last moment due to a miscommunication over the pick.

The Bruins had been unable to re-sign the 21-year old Kessel and the two sides were miles apart on a new contract. A restricted free agent, Kessel was reportedly looking for a deal in the neighbourhood of $4-5 million a season, while the Bruins, who are right up against the league mandated $56.8 million salary cap, could not afford to sign the Madison, Wisconsin native to the terms he desired.

Kessel informed the team through his agent last week that he was through negotiating and intended to sign an offer sheet with one of the league's other 29 clubs.

While both the Nashville Predators and New York Rangers had shown interest, Leafs' general manager Brian Burke's persistence finally paid off.

Kessel, who is sidelined until at least November following rotator cuff surgery, overcame a battle with testicular cancer in 2006 and captured the Masterton Trophy in 2007 for perseverance and dedication to hockey. He enjoyed a career season with the Bruins last year, leading the team with 36 goals in 70 games while adding 24 assists to finish with a career high 60 points. He was selected in the first round, fifth overall by the Bruins in the 2006 NHL Entry draft.

that trade is such fail for toronto

they're suppose to be rebuilding and they trade for a guy by dealing 2 1st rounders?

yeah real smart.

Why does phaneuf need to defend himself or fight over a clean hit?

This just perpetuates the stupid fucking scrums that ALWAYS happen after clean hits

the only reason there was such a melée was because it was so devistating, he may be a pussy but buddy will remember to keep his head up in the future

I can see Kessel crumbling under the pressure and expectations of playing in Toronto ala Jason Blake. Even worse cause he's younger. Leafs fans better hope he's up to it because he will be their go-to guy.

Was he not head hunting? Yes it was basically a clean hit, but c'mon, save that for regular season or playoffs.

PS - Shirokov is playing on the Sedin line tonight:thumbsup:

If I was Biron, I would have added in that the way Stevens plays and backs his shit up is the way a CUP WINNING defenceman plays... unlike spineless Celine Dion who will never win anything.

Also, Stevens teammates liked him... unlike Phaneuf who is hated in his own dressing room. Ouch.

So are the Canucks on Sportsnet tonight at 7pm?

^NO, read previous posts.

Leafs sign Kessel to 5 year / 27 million contract

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=291601

Watch him turn into a Jason Blake

refer to previous page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YQJaq-jQOM

Well, they've both had cancer! So the similarities are already there..

im thinkin this will probably be the lineups in the beginning of the regular season.

Sedin-Sedin-Samuelson
Burrows-Kelser-Shirokov
Bernier-Wellwood-Raymond
Rypien-Johnson-Hordichuk

Mitchell-Bieska
Salo-Obrien
Edler-Errhoff

R u fucking kidding me? u place Edler and Errhoff behind Obrien for Top 4?

LOL!

the Kessel deal is retarded on TO's part, it's a big splash to make the idiots belive they are instant contenders

giving up first and 2nd round picks just moves them into a position to never have the young cheap players they need to go deep in the playoffs 3-5 years from now, and Kessel is not a game breaker/playoff performer who is going to push you over the edge

looks like the laughs will be treading water once again, while burke and nonis commit big money to stay at home d-men and non-game changing forwards.

what? i thought every preseason game was televised .. bah!

That was a good hit by Dion, I hope Okposo is okay though..poor guy got ganged, first getting knocked off balance and then the final blow

Dion has a repuation of being an asshole both on and off the ice so I'm not surprised theres such a huge uproar from the fans and Morency who just hopped off a bench to get a piece of Dion..

Asshole should fight his own battles instead of running away.

On another note, another great move by Toronto :rolleyes:

like said before, i dont think clean hits need to be fought over..

yes, i feel bad for okposo, but you cant have a fight after every clean, yet devastating hit.

people fighting for stupid reasons is why the nhl is being pressured to look into banning fighting.

why does phaneuf need to fight? did he get a penalty on the play? i dont think he did. and that gave the energy to the flames, and they popped off the win. and i think the a good majority of the energy the flames got, was boosted off phaneuf's hit.

if it was dirty, and phaneuf left his feet or threw in an elbow, by all means he should be punished, or fight for throwing a douche bag hit.

but there is only milliseconds btwn when okposo was shoved by dawes and when phaneuf hit him. there was really no way for him to stop...and as you can see from the beginning of the video, phaneuf was already hooking in for the hit before dawes hit okposo. it was game over right at the start of the video for okposo

i wish him well and hope he gets back on the ice soon though

Wow that's a fuckin low blow man. Grow up and have some respect for people who have/had cancer.

is it me or is the canucks tv feed really shitty

its beyond shitty. I'm just listening to it now. Can't see a thing!