Hockey, We Will Certainly Miss Thee
Last night's game five in Anaheim was the last game of the 2006-07 season, hockey's version of icing on the cake if you will, and it would be a shame to let the year pass without bidding adieu to the season that was.
To recap, here are some of the most talked about stories from 2006-07.
- Anaheim didn't like being mighty. They would rather just be Ducks.
- The Islanders signed Rick DiPietro to an unbelievable 15-year deal. (9/12/06)
- The Sabres unveiled some new duds. (9/16/06)
- Stevie Y took up residence in the Red Wings' front office as Vice President. (9/25/06)
- Mario Lemieux's number was retired (again) and Jim Balsillie agreed to purchase the Penguins. (10/5/06)
- Brendan Shanahan scored his 600th career goal. (10/5/06)
- Colby Armstrong lit up Trevor Letowski. Yikes. (10/14/16)
- Colorado's sellout streak finally ended. (10/17/06)
- Scientists are still trying to figure out what Ryan Getzlaf did. (10/22/06)
- Evgeni Malkin absolutely smoked the Devils. (10/24/06)
- The Sabres got off to their best start in franchise history, winning their first 10 games. (10/26/06)
- Patrick Marleau got absolutely jacked up. (11/7/06)
- Later, the Ducks decided to not lose for the first 16 games of the season. (11/10/06)
- Buffalo set an NHL record by winning their first 10 road games of the season. (11/13/06)
- Jaromir Jagr scored his 600th career goal. (11/16/07)
- We found out that Atlanta and Washington do not appreciate each other. (11/22/06)
- Ken Hitchcock took over behind the bench in Columbus. (11/22/06)
- Sidney Crosby > the New York Rangers. (12/7/06)
- Boston's Phil Kessel was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He would return to the ice a month later. (12/11/06)
- Tomas Vanek had a heck of a year, including making Cristobal Huet look downright silly. (12/12/06)
- Balsillie withdrew his bid to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins. (12/15/06)
- Scott Nichol got suspended for going ape shit on Jaroslav Spacek. (12/21/07)
- Christmas was over and so were the niceties, as Donald Brashear and Andrew Peters proved. (12/26/06)
- The Red Wings had to order a lot of extra Yzerman jerseys. (1/2/07)
- Patrick Stefan is probably still wishing that he hit the empty net. (1/4/07)
- Marty St. Louis proves that you don't actually have to be facing the goaltender to score on a penalty shot. (1/7/07)
- Chicago is probably still mad about this goal. (1/14/07)
- That was a heck of a fight, eh? (1/26/07)
- 'O, Canada' was sung in an aboriginal language for the first time at a major sporting event. (2/3/07)
- Sid the Kid never ceased to amaze us. (2/7/07)
- Ronald Petrovicky showed that he is a dangerous man. (2/11/07)
- This proved that Henrik Zetterberg has eyes in the back of his head. (2/14/07)
- Peter Forsberg became a Predator. (2/15/07)
- Joe Sakic became the third player this year to score his 600th career goal. (2/15/07)
- After two years, the All-Star game decided that it finally wanted to come out and play. The 'Vote for Rory' campaign came up short, and Rory Fitzpatrick was not at the All-Star Game. Conspiracy? (2/24/07)
- Keith Tkachuk became a Thrasher. (2/25/07)
- Buffalo and Ottawa had a little bit of a disagreement. (2/27/07)
- Trade Deadline Day: Bill Guerin became a Shark, Todd Bertiuzzi hit the motor city and Ryan Smyth was traded to Long Island. The Oilers never recovered and even lost on Mark Messier Day. (2/27/07, 2/28/07)
- Chris Simon decided that he had enough of Ryan Hollweg. (3/8/07)
- The world started rotating again upon hearing the news that the Penguins would stay in Pittsburgh. (3/14/07)
- Jordin Tootoo proved that he does not like the Dallas Stars. (3/17/07)
- Mike Modano became the highest scoring American born player in NHL history. (3/18/07)
- You just hate to see a guy go down like this. (3/21/07)
- Atlanta clinched their first playoff berth in franchise history thanks to the New York Rangers 7-2 win over Toronto.
- Marty Brodeur set the record for most wins in a season. (4/6/07)
- For the first time ever, both defending conference champions missed the playoffs. (4/8/07)
- Sorry, Toronto. (4/8/07)
- Montreal led the league in attendance for the 4th straight season. (4/8/07)
- The Devils finally sold out a home game. It turned out to be a dandy, too. (4/28/07)
- The Canucks and Stars wanted to see if they could stay up all night. (5/12/07)
- NBC reminded us that it hates hockey fans. (5/19/07)
- Jim Balsillie bought the Predators, and rumors continute to swirl about a potential move to Canada. (5/24/07)
- Brian Leetch bid adieu. (5/24/07)
- Did you know: Snoop Dogg loves hockey. (5/31/07)
- Chris Pronger got suspended for his hit on Tomas Holmstrom, and his hit on Dean McAmmond. (5/15/07, 6/2/07)
- Don Cherry made an appearance on American television. (6/4/07)
- Long Island divorced Alexei Yashin and said
good riddancegoodbye to Mike Milbury. (6/6/07 and 5/29/07) - And finally, the Anaheim Ducks won the Stanley Cup. (6/6/07)
Nice work. There were some things in there I almost forgot about. I never saw the report about attendance figures, either.
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Great list. And very surprising Finals. Sens left it all in Buffalo. Here in Carolina, we're still stunned that we didn't make the playoffs. Glad to see the Rangers make it back. Would love to see the rest of the Original Six (sans Detroit) try harder to make it. And the Sabres can remain the bridesmaid. GO HURRICANES!
ReplyDeleteSlightly biased, but the Sabres had 6 of the top 7 and 7 of the top 10 jerseys in sales. That still blows my mind.
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