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For the thousands of rules, equipment, and rink modifications to the game of hockey over the last 150+ years official hockey nets have seen few changes. The goal mouth metric has been 6 X 4 feet before the red and blue line were adopted in the game of hockey (the blue line was instated in 1918, and the calendar year of 1943 saw the introduction of the red line). But the distance of the goal has been moved from the end boards many times, from 5 feet at the games inception, from at least 10 to 15 feet in 1909, and most notably in 1990 as a result of "Gretzky's Office" the league felt compelled to increase the space behind the net by a foot and eliminating 2 feet of neutral zone with which players have to maneuver. However, designs of the goal *size have also been reshaped minimally from time to time too. Art Ross's first official "double bubble" style net was invented in the dawn of the 1900's, and was phased out in the 1984-85 season for today's modern cage. Due in no small part to Mark Howe (son of Gordie) rupturing his rectum on the middle stabilizing post which a player could be dangerously impaled if the net became overturned, as it did in 1980 at a Islanders home game. And the methods for which the net has been secured to the ice have evolved by way of necessity. The original Art Ross goals were fashioned into the ice by unforgiving immovable iron pegs embedded into the concrete below the sheet of ice. Many injuries have been sustained by players blowing a tire, or losing an edge and crashing into the posts. By 1984 Dennis Meggs and Terry Riley developed the Megg-Net which was kept in place by magnets rather than being embedded into the ice with iron pegs. The Megg net lasted until the 1993 season when it was replaced in favor of the modern marsh pegs. This change was ultimately made because the Megg-Net net was prone to becoming easily dislodged as the magnets weakened and the season wore on. There is little debate as to whether Art Ross and Percy LeSueur are responsible for the first standard hockey net, but who invented the actual "net"? In the origins of hockey the goal only had two posts mounted in the ice. So, the question is, venerable hockey fans, who are the indigenous peoples that invented the actual net, webbing, or mesh that was attached to the goal? The answer will be divulged one week from today.

Hi. I'm clockwise and I like French fried potaters. I believe that everyone should be in the Luft Waffle Blitzkrieg League because it's good for your body. Also every machine needs a loose screw and I could fill that position nicely. I know there has to be a vacancy for the potentiality that I will have a chance to play, but that doesn't bother me because I know the mob works in mysterious ways. Thank you.

Update on NHL'94 topography, quite a bit of undulation in the last 2 years: Stars and Stripes in the lead with 48 members. Previously 18. Canada in 2nd with 25 members. Previously 13 members. Finland with 9 members. Previously 7 members. South America with 1 member. Previously 2 members, 1 excommunication. Sweden with 1 member. Previously uninhabited UK with 2 members. Previously uninhabited. France with 1 member. Previously uninhabited. Switzerland with 1 member. Previously uninhabited. Slovenia 1 member. Previously 1 vampire. Australia with 1 member. That being Wboy. And Pennsylvania with the largest concentration of members making it the NHL'94 capital of the world!

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Egads, pusseyfoot 94! Really wild wacky stchuff. Make Extreme Frisbee '94 and I'll give you all the windmills in Deutschland.

It's been a long time coming, so here she blows. Aspiring coaches are welcome to sign up with this form. I'd encourage coaches to familiarize themselves and download the rom as well. A simulated demo season was used in constructing the site. Sample league pages are listed as follows: - Standings - League Leaders - Teams - Boxscores - Player Stats | Bios Launch for league play is yet to be determined. You can read more about the site for now as I'm watching the Flyers and Sabres, at the moment. I'll leave it at that until later, gators.

Completely refurbished rom and the new NHL91.com is go.

Little T.V sets, going off inside my ear. Spacemen floating by, firecracker beer. Chase the demons lightly, deep inside your eye. Up and down the sidewalk, take a dodo pie. I love you.

Here's a Gens netplay tutorial I made that could be of help. The dilemma you have is probably the absence of the kaillera.dll file. This file must be in Gens root directory for netplay to be available in the file menu.

Another thing, isn't the title of this thread a misnomer? Shouldn't it be "Onsides are awesome!"?

Never even entertained the notion of suggesting playing with offsides enabled for fear I'd be tried for treason and shot at sunrise. When I began my meteoric assent into NHL'94 mediocrity I had to acclimate to playing with offsides OFF. My first few games were a baptism by fire versus the likes of backhandfloater and gr8199 some years ago trying to transition to netplay style because of this. Everyone told me that using offsides was a no no and the customary norm was to keep them disabled. Not sure if I should be surprised that someone actually suggested playing with them and that there's some support, or more surprised that it's never really been discussed for league play. Playing with a pass first offense means it's conducive to my game, so naturally I'd like to see some games played with them enabled. Two things I'll say about offsides that some guys who never use them might not be aware of: 1. They are exploitable. It's legal to connect with long range aerial passes over the blue line with the use of a one timer while being offside in the game. I've scored many a goal this way. Maybe this needs to be added to the bugs section? 2. All of the skaters on the ice play as though offsides are enabled, even if they are not. If you cross the blueline onside with the puck, then travel back into the neutral zone and your line mates are already in the offensive zone, then the skaters will come back out into the neutral zone to clear any type of delayed icing. Even if your not playing with offsides enabled.

From the two greatest hockey cartoons ever! Watched these over the holiday and had to include them.

Nah it's ok, we gave it the old college try. At least it served as beaker to test the efficacy of the league. I no longer have to wonder if it would have ever been viable.

There's a zoo of various flash | interlaced video to gif freeware on the web. Personally I've never experimented with any of them. My protocol for converting videos into gif format typically involves Adobe Flash CS3's app for the metamorphose. From here I'll embed the video into a time line and usually save it as a gif. All of the NHL'94 animated sprites I've done involve Gens K Mod, which takes a BMP screen capture of every frame. Usually some batch processing is done with Adobe's obsolete ImageReady using the sequence of captures, or I'll do it the hard way by adjusting the frames manually. If there's a gif you want I could help you out.

Think I turned into a fat bastard overnight after Thursday. Does Billy Blanks still make those Tae Bo videos? Btw: I was around tonight and couldn't find enough heads to play 2on2.

No need for an explanation Mack, it's just a game. Really hope he pulls through. I'm not overly religious, but I'll ask the big man to pull some levers when I make my annual visit to church tomorrow.

"And all through the game, no one was lagging, not even a frame..." Have a Merry Christmas everyone, hope the global fiscal recession isn't pinching your present cache to much. If you had your cabbage in bed with Madoff's Ponzi scheme, hopefully you asked Santa for some pickle barrels and suspenders to keep you warm, or at least a self serve windshield squeegee to stave off unemployment... I kid. Happy holidays, enjoy all the food and booze you can handle! "... as I exit the server and vanish from sight, "Genesis is the best, but SNES is alright".

Meander down a few threads and there's a head stone marking the NHLPA'93 Mini Tournament. It was jettisoned aimlessly like a cigarette butt off the finger tips of a hobo after a month or two. Only two coaches ever completed their games, NJK and I. Getting guys to play in it was like pulling teeth, and I doubt this type of thing would ever have any sustainable shelf life. The framework could be setup for your guys if there's a demand. However, I'm oversexed and under worked as is and don't really have time to play, so I couldn't fill any slot.

Pretty impressive. But not half as impressive as the Toast Master 9 hundred thousand, nexus - maxim >>>> Makes 7,000 thousand pieces of toast at once!

Those Russian uniforms colors are pretty flamboyant. Some of the teams look like Peeps Easter candy out there. Never thought Russia had colors before the fall of Communism.

Much belated congratulations pops. Raising kids is hard. You gotta feed em every day, you know, like plants. Don't know how my parents ever pulled it off (that wasn't an invitation to insult me).

This league has missed the runway by several hundred feet, and it looks like there's no survivors. At this juncture my opus is completely devoid of any shape or texture. It's become so abjectly formless and untethered that there is no feasible way it could be centered back into orbit. What began as a featured special dish on the main menu is now the spare rib maze on the back of the place mat. It's regressed from a cult of devoted followers, to an occult, nebulous, pernicious, skull and bones cabal. My once sexy, hourglass shaped, weird science creation, has grown into a hideously malformed frankensteinian elephant man, thing. Looking at the wreckage from 5000 feet there's many detonation points outside the blast radius. The complications of coordinating matches could be one, and the revolving door of coaching replacements could be another. But the death knell the led to the exsanguination is in my mind, without a doubt, the exit of guys like EA. From that point everything spiraled into a sad dance of musical chairs. It's easy to burden the shoulder of coaches with blame for the downfall of the league, so I will. JESUS H. CHRIST, WHAT DO I NEED A BOLT STUNNER TO COERCE YOU SLOTHS INTO PLAYING GAMES? YOU DUMPED THIS LEAGUE INTO A SHALLOW GRAVE AND BURIED IT ALIVE. No seriously, there's no one to blame here. It's not you, it's me. We need to see other leagues, circulate, you know? If there's anything I'll miss the most it's the bedlam of setting up games in servers, the bastardization of usernames like "HABNOT", "COCKWISE", "Dickenest", "HABLAESPANOL", and all the others. I'll miss all of the blood vessel bursting, needless replays. Can't forget the sick one timer setups either, and going out as the two time 2on2 champs softens the blow too. Sadly the site will never get the new design that would of incorporated flash elements with the database, and some ajax (not the foaming cleanser). Other web design projects have monopolized my time of late, one of them being the new NHL91.com site among others... So I doubt I'd have the time to play, even if the league had a clean bill of heath. We'll never know. The domain name will probably become what it should of been all along, a fan site for tandem bicycles, or a double team laser tag clan home. I love you 2on2 fooz like family, not in a Sanfransican way, in a Viking way. It should be noted that I don't love most of my family. Hit me up for some exhibs if you see me. Guten tag mofos,

Have to disagree to disagree. But I was thinking about something physical - I'm still disgruntled about Corey Sandlers "Inside" NHL '94 guide; someone might actually be crazy enough to actually print our guide out. Or make a interactive flash 3.0 movie. It would go sort of like this: Cover Preface Credits Table of contents Fundimentals Basics of hockey Controls Rules Penalties Skating Shooting Passing Playing with line changes Playing with offsides [*]Strategies Offensive Setting up shop Scoring Break aways One timers dekes slap shots [*]Passing [*]Defensive Positioning Checking Goalie Control [*]Team Profiles Player Profiles | Ratings [*]Team Matchups [*]Extras [*]Index [*]Colophon

The last skater cursor resides at the end of the sprite tiles. You can find the offsets for them, and the rest of the sprites in my stick tape patch thread. I hope you frequently play 2on2 more frequently, it does a body good, and the ranks are thinning.