2012 NHL Offseason Thread: ROCK OUT WITH YOUR LOCKOUT

[Mote]

I, too, miss the old hockey days....







and by old hockey days I mean last May

[Aksannyi]

Yeah I miss any hockey days when they were actually playing.

[Ivaden]

I miss having a reason to be active on BG. And fantasy hockey.

[Sepukku]

A Pittsburgh-themed Sports Memorbilia store is going out of business this fall/winter and everything was 20% off and I cracked and bought a Simon Despres jersey while stopping in on the way home. Now the Penguins better not disappointment me and trade him in less than a year like they did when I got my Goligoski jersey.

[Sepukku]

Goalie: Patrick Roy
Defense: Ray Bourque, Paul Coffey
Forwards: Mario Lemieux, Joe Sakic and.... Stephane Richer.

That was actually harder than I thought. Maybe a full roster would be more fun to make. haha

Pavel Bure, Mario Lemieux, Gordie Howe
Mark Messier (not a winger) , Wayne Gretzky, Teemu Selanne
Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Brett Hull
Steve Yzerman (not a winger), Sidney Crosby, play in for final spot between AO and Geno

Orr - Lidstrom
Neidermeyer - Borque
Murphy - Coffey

Roy
Hasek

[Brill Weave]

What store Sep? I may have to take a trip out and take a look around.

[Sepukku]

Parkway Center Mall - Sports Deli, its off the first exit on Parkway West after taking Fort Pitt Tunnel out of Pittsburgh, so literally 5-10 minutes from downtown. The whole mall is closing since their final major tenant (KMART) is not re-upping their lease. Its just KMART, Sports Deli, Phantoms of the Attic comic book shop, 2 asian places (martial arts and massage), and an eyeglasses optometry business left. The whole mall closes January 13th but the stores need to close January 1st or 6th to give themselves a week or two to move out everything unsold from the place.

Both KMART and Sports Deli have "entire store % off / all sales final" going on right now. And I would expect that % to increase closer to the end but obviously less selection as things won't be restocked BUT I will say, Sports Deli has the best Pittsburgh memorbilia selection of all pittsburgh sports stores. 100x better than those Hometown Sports stores you see in Century 3 mall, South Hills village, etc. Tons of unique knickknacks, old steelers jerseys, a few old hockey jerseys, a lot of dated memorbilia from 20 years ago. Scoreboards, mugs, etc. Some non-pittsburgh sports stuff too since its not specifically a Pittsburgh Sports store, its a store for people who like sports.

[Sepukku]

http://www.prosportsstore.com/pages/

Some of their photos you can start to see the type of collection and style of store they run. No off-brand black+gold covered slogan shirts that you could custom make from a local T-shirt manufacturer like BeeGraphix. Real sports products, some of them pretty old, some of them pretty unique hard to find... shame the store is going out of business. You can also see some of the older and/or non-Pittsburgh stuff they have there on the front page's rotation of pictures (Lemieux jerseys, old steelers, signed brett favre jersey, etc)

[Brill Weave]

Mother fucker I know where Parkway Center Mall is lol. I was not aware that the whole mall was closing though.

[Izzy]

What are the local minor Chicago hockey teams? My dad used to go to a few Blackhawks games a season and I want to buy him some tickets to some local games around there while the lockout is going on.

[Ratatapa]

Someone's gonna get a penalty!

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl-l...k_nhl_lockout/

[Callisto]

What are the local minor Chicago hockey teams? My dad used to go to a few Blackhawks games a season and I want to buy him some tickets to some local games around there while the lockout is going on.

How far out from the city is he? Wolves(Canucks) are the go-to for the city and suburbs, farther Northwest can go to Rockford(Hawks), closer to central IL has the Peoria Rivermen(Blues). Unfortunately our ECHL team out in the suburbs folded after last season.

[bluefan]

You guys keeping up with this CHL labor talks too?

Hilarious.

The head of the supposed CHLPA is refusing to show himself. And the CHL actually went and hired a private investigator to find out who this guy is lmao.

[Sepukku]

Mother fucker I know where Parkway Center Mall is lol. I was not aware that the whole mall was closing though.

Do you? LOL Partying in the Mall Club in the 90s??????

Anyways, source: http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburg...-to-close.html

[Izzy]

How far out from the city is he? Wolves(Canucks) are the go-to for the city and suburbs, farther Northwest can go to Rockford(Hawks), closer to central IL has the Peoria Rivermen(Blues). Unfortunately our ECHL team out in the suburbs folded after last season.

He lives in Joilet I think.

[Callisto]

He lives in Joilet I think.

That's Wolves territory then, still a bit of a drive since Joliet is giving out there but it's reasonable.

[NynJa]

When the winter classic falls, the entire season shall fall...

[Ishido]

All of the other leagues have had 1 lockout each in the time the NHL has had 3, right?

[BadKarma]

All of the other leagues have had 1 lockout each in the time the NHL has had 3, right?

Actually......baseball had their lockout before the half a cup, so you cant count them

[Ratatapa]

Bye bye winter classic