01/23/2007 - Springfield, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The 2007 Rbk Hockey AHL All-Star Classic, set for this coming Sunday and Monday, will bring some of the best young players in hockey to Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto to continue a tradition that actually began 65 years ago.
While 2007 marks the 13th installment of the leagues modern All-Star event, the first AHL All-Star Game was held on Feb. 3, 1942, under the support of league president Maurice Podoloff. The game, played at the famed Arena in Cleveland, was a fundraiser for U.S. and Canadian efforts in World War II and featured some of the most notable names in league history, including Les Cunningham and Eddie Shore, two men whose names now grace AHL awards honoring the leagues MVP and outstanding defenseman, respectively.
The AHL All-Star Game was brought back in 1954, and for the next six years the contest pitted the defending Calder Cup champions against a team of league all-stars. Many of the AHLs great players of the era participated, including AHL Hall of Famer Fred Glover, who played in all six of these games. Other AHL All-Stars in the 1950s included future Hockey Hall of Famers Frank Mathers, Emile Francis, Brian Kilrea, Harry Lumley, Pierre Pilote, Gump Worsley and Johnny Bower, who made 47 saves in a 4-0 shutout win in the October 1956 game.
Following the All-Star Game in December 1959, the event was not held again until current league president and CEO David Andrews revived it 35 years later. In Providence on Jan. 17, 1995, a team of All-Stars from the AHLs six Canadian teams faced off against All-Stars from the leagues 11 U.S.-based clubs.
The annual Skills Competition was added in 1996, and the format was changed in 1997 to the current set-up pitting Canadian-born players against those born outside Canada.
Fans in Toronto - regarded as the hockey capital of the world - and a live international TV audience is set to once again witness the AHLs best face off on one of hockeys brightest stages, the 2007 Rbk Hockey AHL All-Star Classic. The AHL All-Star TV network will reach over 100 million households; click here for a schedule of air times.
ALL-STAR RADIO COVERAGE ... In addition to the extensive TV and video webcast coverage of the 2007 Rbk Hockey AHL All-Star Classic, Mondays AHL All-Star Game can be heard anywhere in the world on the official Web site of the AHL, theahl.com.
Toronto Marlies play-by-play voice John Bartlett will provide the call of the All-Star Game on a worldwide audio cybercast courtesy of the Marlies flagship radio home, AM640 Toronto.
The 2007 AHL All-Star Game will also be carried live on XM Satellite Radio and XM Canada, with more than six million subscribers, on Home Ice XM 204, the networks all-hockey channel.
CHERRY TO SPEAK AT ALL-STAR LUNCHEON ... Former American Hockey League All- Star defenseman and long-time Canadian broadcasting legend Don Cherry will serve as the guest speaker at the 2007 Hockey Hall of Fame AHL All-Star Classic Luncheon, Jan. 29 in Toronto.
The Luncheon, which is annually attended by 1,000 guests, will also feature the induction of four new members into the American Hockey League Hall of Fame. The Class of 2007 includes Fred "Bun" Cook, Dick Gamble, Gil Mayer and Mike Nykoluk.
ALL-STAR OFFICIALS NAMED ... The AHL has named the on-ice officials for the 2007 AHL All-Star Game in Toronto. Steve Kozari will serve as the games referee, while John Campbell and Scott Cherrey will be the linesmen.
It will be the first AHL All-Star appearance for all three.
500 FOR SLANEY ... Philadelphia Phantoms captain John Slaney, who has more career points in AHL All-Star Game play than anyone in league history, on Sunday became the first defenseman - and the 72nd player overall - ever to record 500 points in an AHL career.
With his second-period assist against Norfolk, Slaney now has 160 goals and 340 assists in 597 career AHL contests.
ETC. ... Omahas All-Star goaltender Curtis McElhinney is 0-6-0 this season against Chicago and Peoria, and 18-2-0 against the rest of the American Hockey League... Norfolk All-Stars Brandon Bochenski (4g, 5a), Troy Brouwer (3g, 4a) and Martin St. Pierre (2g, 6a) combined for 24 points in five games last week... All-Star Wade Dubielewicz set a Bridgeport team record with 51 saves in Saturdays 4-3 shootout win at Hershey... Toronto rookie Robbie Earl, a native Chicagoan and a University of Wisconsin product, scored at Milwaukee on Saturday night before potting the decisive shootout goal in Chicago on Sunday... Mark Hartigans hat trick against Albany on Friday gave him 106 career goals with Syracuse and made him the Crunchs all-time leading goal scorer, surpassing Lonny Bohonos (104)... After going 29 games without a goal, Lowell rookie Stephen Gionta scored in back-to-back games for the Devils over the weekend... Yan Stastny scored two goals and was a plus-4 in Peorias 5-4 win at Iowa on Saturday... Springfield is 6-1 this season in games decided after regulation (1-0 in overtime, 5-1 in shootouts)... Chicago snapped a seven-game home winless streak with a 7-2 victory over San Antonio on Saturday night, with 14,927 fans in attendance at Allstate Arena... Average attendance at 32 weekend games in the AHL was 6,431... With the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo taking over the AT&T Center, the Rampage kick off a 16-game, 28- day road odyssey covering nearly 7,500 miles on Thursday night with a game against the Marlies at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
(Courtesy of AHL)
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Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their “supplements” to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this won’t be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a “truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit.” And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. “The plug-necked yahoos on your team,” you can say, “will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.”
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesn’t focus only on your opponent’s team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Where’s your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, “I’ll try to type slower for you next time.” Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, don’t just conclude by saying your opponent is a “twerp who drafts like my grandmother.” Say that your opponent is a “sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars.” By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You won’t be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, I’m sure, to reply.
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