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What’s Wrong with The Western Star’s Dave Kearsey?
Posted by: | CommentsDave Kearsey of The Western Star continually amazes me. Here is the sports editor of our beloved newspaper asking “What’s wrong with the Corner Brook Royals?” in his most recent article and his conclusion – “There is nothing wrong with the Corner Brook Royals”.
His thoughts that the regular season means nothing reminds me of a statement made about the Titanic before she set sail – “She’s unsinkable” – but I guess we know how that story ended right?
Dave Kearsey should know better. Here is a gentleman that has played competitive sports all his life and he wants the readers to believe that the Corner Brook Royals players don’t “try” each regular season game because the games mean nothing?
Anyone who has played sports at any level will tell you that they go out to win. They give it their all and they want to walk away with the victory. It isn’t about how you played the game, as Dave apparently wants us to believe. It is about winning and the Corner Brook Royals go out game after game trying to win.
There is no “conspiracy” in how the league is setup; there is no half-hearted attempt to go through the motions during regular season and then turning it on for the playoffs.
Obviously, that isn’t the case is it now Mr. Keasey? The Royals got dominated by the Clarenville Caribous during the first two games of their playoff series. The Royals’ players obviously weren’t going through the motions. They played and were beaten by a better team who had concentrated on improving their game throughout the regular season!
Strangely enough, Dave Kearsey wants us to believe that there was nothing wrong with the Corner Brook Royals but suggests that Terry Ryan and Morgan Warren don’t show more than they had in the regular season “this series would be over in a hurry”. Obviously if these two star players on the Corner Brook Royals were not performing there is something wrong with the Corner Brook Royals!
Does anyone honestly believe that the Corner Brook Royals will beat the Clarenville Caribous?
Yes, I do agree that the “unexpected” could be the Corner Brook Royals stunning the Caribous as Dave so colourfully puts it in his article. It could also mean the Toronto Maple Leafs is going to win the Stanley Cup this season.
It just isn’t happening Dave.
As we know, the Titanic did sink and to be perfectly honest, most fans around town do expect the Corner Brook Royals to be swept this weekend.
Newfoundland Hockey Takes Christmas Break
Posted by: | CommentsNewfoundland Hockey is for the most part on a Christmas break. This has left many Newfoundland Hockey fans here on the forum struggling for some entertainment and hoping that Santa was good to the various teams throughout the island.
The news coming from the various hockey organizations in and around Newfoundland is sparse. There’s not a whole lot happening as most people spend time with friends and family throughout this holiday season.
For those Newfoundland Hockey fans around there’s the World Juniors with an up and coming Newfoundland star in the mix. That is always exciting cheering for a local during such a high profile event.
Give it time fans, Newfoundland Hockey will soon resume.
Have a safe and happy holiday season and a very Happy New Year from everyone here at Newfoundland Hockey Talk.
Computer Issues – I Hate Computers!
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve been offline for a bit now, trying to get a new computer running as my old finally died!
I’ve missed updating the site and reading the forum. I have a lot to catch up on, especially with Daniel Cleary being one of the best players in the playoffs. Looks like he’s on his way to another Stanley Cup if the Detroit Red Wings continue their play.
Watch for more updates – Microsoft Vista is almost fully installed and I’m almost back online!
Server Issues
Posted by: | CommentsWe’ve had to install some security updates and these have caused some issues with our servers.
We are working to get things back online. Please be patient. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Clarenville Caribous – An Organization to be Admired
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The Clarenville Caribous are an organization to be admired when it comes to how they run a hockey organization.
With their return to senior hockey in Newfoundland and Labrador, many had questioned if the Caribous would survive a season or fall wayside like the Bay of Island Bruins. Here was an organization that seen an opportunity to return to hockey, but not in the east coast which would have been much easier logistically and financially, but in the West Coast Senior Hockey League.
Anyone who is a fan of West Coast Senior Hockey knows that this league is competitive, it is serious and it doesn’t take kindly to change. Having the Clarenville Caribous in the mix upset many people in the “old boys” club, and added a few challenges in scheduling, travel and added expenses. However, what many already in the league forgot to realize was this organization had their backs to the wall.
With Corner Brook, Deer Lake and Grand Falls-Windsor would see their travel costs increase only a small amount with the addition of a road trip to Clarenville. However, with the geographical location of the Caribous, the travel expenses for this organization was going to be much larger and getting the players to the other venues much more challenging.
However, the Clarenville Caribous organization built a strong executive and management team, acquired great local talent and relied heavily on a group of dedicated volunteers to do what many thought was the impossible.
The Clarenville Caribous came into the league and competed hard from day one, and while they had their critics and those that wanted to see this organization fail, the Caribous showed they were for real. With the best transitional game and fasted team in the league, the players lived up to expectations that many who truly loved the game recognized early on about the team.
With their first Herder Memorial Championship under their belts in 2008-2009, the Caribous have silenced the critics. They have become an organization to be admired and copied in the Newfoundland hockey arena.
Bandwidth Exceeded Error
Posted by: | CommentsWell, looks like we overlooked one of the items during our system reload. We had limited the amount of bandwith that Newfoundland Hockey Talk was using and it made the site unavailable for a portion of the day.
We’ve corrected this oversight and we’re live again. Many apologies for those that have been unable to get online at the site.
Don’t Forget You have to Register on the Forum Again
Posted by: | CommentsFor those experiencing problems with the forum, don’t forget you have to register your account once again. All accounts that previously were created were deleted along with all the posts.
Once you register your account, you will receive an email to the email account you have provided and you will be asked to activate your account by clicking on the link in the email message. If you used a fake email, you will not be able to activate your account and you will have to send a message with your username that you used to sign up.
Once you account is activated, you will be able to use the board as always.
NLHockeyTalk.ca – Problems Loading Appears Fixed
Posted by: | CommentsAfter receiving several complaints of the NLHockeyTalk.ca and the Newfoundland Hockey Talk Discussion Forum not loading, we have worked the last several hours tracing the issues and it looks like it’s now fixed.
It appears that some of the regulars have found the site even with the problems being experienced and discussions are now underway. Come join us in discussing the happenings in and around Newfoundland and Labrador’s hockey scene.
Newfoundland Hockey Talk Forum Back!
Posted by: | CommentsThe Newfoundland Hockey Talk Forum is now back online!
Everything is now reloaded, we’re back with a new fresh start. Don’t forget, you will have to register again so get there early and get your name registered.
If there is anyone that is experiencing any problems accessing the site, it may be a few hours (hopefully) before the site is recognized again by the big-bad internet. It has been a major redesign from the top to bottom of the site, and I’m sure we’ve missed something along the way even though we tried to make sure we had everything completed before going live!
Possible Problems With New Site
Posted by: | CommentsFor those people who have messaged regarding the launch of the new site and new forum, we are in the final stages of testing permissions and user functionality. We are very close to once again opening the doors to the discussion forum.
With everything that has gone on these last 5 or 6 days in redesigning the site, we’re excited that we are about to launch again, with a clean slate and anxious to start things going as well. As you can see we’ve had a major overhaul of both the main site and the discussion forum, the creation of a new logo and the addition of new software to run this entire setup.
We here at Newfoundland Hockey Talk certainly hope that you enjoy yourselves when we open the doors. We are just correcting a few things and solving a few problems that we have discovered. Chances are these will not be the last things that we find out given how we have started basically from scratch.