Hockey City Live – Episode #14

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Topics:

• Caps fans filling their void virtually
• Blake Geoffrion Update
• Wayne Simmonds is coming home
• Mediator for CBA meetings?
• Ideas for new post lockout rules. There were changes last time; It could happen again
• Owners are held up on contract rights
• Listener Q&A along with the “Friendship Tag”

Tip Ins: Is Donald Fehr Trolling CBA Negotiations?

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Tip Ins is a weekly update for all the news that happened in the NHL.

Don Fehr doing his best Hulk Hogan impression. I wonder if he did this to the owners at the meetings. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

• Donald Fehr has apparently been doing some Grade A dickin’ in recent CBA meetings. Word is he has been arriving late as well as taking 20 minutes to get water. Yep, this is what we needed to hear on Day 61 of the lockout. (Puck Daddy)
• After the last lockout, there were a ton of rule changes in the National Hockey League. There aren’t any major concerns this time around, but here are a few suggestions for after the current lockout ends. Some are brilliant while others are completely insane. (Battle Of California)
• Remember those racist bastards that chanted “Opice!” (which means “monkey” in English) at Wayne Simmonds? Yea, they’re facing jail time. I think it’s too much, but the Czech government disagrees. I ain’t even mad. (Puck Daddy)

Tip Ins: Racism In 2012; So We’re Doing That?

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Wayne Simmonds at the bench during a game in the Czech Republic where racist chants were yelled at him by the Piráti Chomutov fans. (Tipsport)

• We kick off today talking about Czech fans chanting “Opice!”(which means “monkey” in English) at Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds. You know. Because being a racist prick is still a thing. (Puck Daddy)
• Speaking of racist pricks, Tyler Bozak is in the news. No, not because he’s a racist prick, but people are calling him that because he dressed in blackface for Halloween as he was portraying Michael Jackson. I don’t think Bozak is racist, but I do think it was a little reckless. Did he not see the backlash Raffi Torres got when he did it? After tweeting(then deleting) the picture, Bozak said,“That’s a tribute to one of my fave artists. For anyone saying its racist is crazy!” (St. Catharine’s Standard)
• Hockey Canada has release a free Concussion Awareness app that gives you information on concussions meanwhile focusing on prevention and symptoms. (Hockey Canada)

Bringing Back The Grit

Over the past week, the Philadelphia Flyers signed wingers Scott Hartnell and Wayne Simmonds to six-year contract extensions. According to capgeek.com, they are worth around $24 million (Simmonds) and $28 million (Hartnell), respectively.