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  2. Who have you met from the NHL over the years?

    in NHL Discussion

    Posted · Edited by NorthwayNative

    Cool thread, here's my contribution:

    I got to meet a few old legends when my dad played in a firefighters vs. ex nhl'ers thing up in Alaska years and years ago. I met Bobby Hull, Guy Lafleur, and Marcel Dionne, among others. Hull was by far the coolest to meet for me since I've always been a diehard Hawks fan, he was incredibly nice and signed so much s**t for me and my dad, jerseys, hats, sticks pucks, you name it.

    I've met Scott Gomez on a couple occasions, he's a very nice guy. He brought the cup up to Anchorage after he won it his rookie year which was awesome to see as a kid. He has all kinds of great stories about NHL guys that hes hung out with over the years, my favorite being the one he told about Brett Hull. Apparently Gomez was in a bar with both Brett and Bobby Hull, and they're sitting there drinking some beers. A woman and a teenage boy approach Brett, and the woman says "Hey Brett, I'm so and so and you may not remember when we got together years ago, but this is your son". Brett barely reacts and says to the kid "Well, I guess this is your grandpa then" as he points to Bobby and continues to sip his beer.

    I used to play youth hockey against Brandon Dubinsky when I was 14-15 years old, he was quite the little dangler. From what I hear he is a pretty large douchebag in adulthood. My sisters husband told me a story this summer about Dubinksy hitting on my sister at some party in Alaska a year or two ago, he actually came up to her and said "Hey, do you know me? she says "No." and he responds with "Trust me, you want to know me". So along with Matt Cooke, Dubinsky is on my short list of NHL'ers that I'd like to knock out if given the opportunity.

  5. NHL 94 mode to be featured in NHL 14?

    in Post '98 Titles & Other Hockey Titles

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    “We did research throughout the year on where we wanted to go with this [Anniversary] mode, and people didn’t actually want to play NHL ’94. They wanted a different take on it that brought back great elements from NHL ’94, but wasn’t actually NHL ’94.”

    What a load of s**t. No, EA, nobody wants to play a half-cocked version of NHL '94 that doesn't play or look anything like the original.

  13. How'd You get your name

    in NHL'94 Community

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    I started playing hockey when I was 6, in a little town called Northway, Alaska. My team was called the "Northway Natives", which was a motley crew of Athabascan native kids and my white self. We always played in sub-zero temperatures, and our games would only be called off if the temp dipped below -30F. Sometimes we'd even play into the -40's, since my dad was scorekeeper/temperature watcher and would warm up the thermometer under his coat once it got sub -30 so we could keep playing. I'll never forget the unholy burning sensation in my feet when taking off my skates in a warm shack after playing in that cold. It was hell at the time, but it sure made me tough.Those were the days...

    I started playing NHL94 the year it came out, while I still lived in Northway. This game holds a ton of nostalgia for me, and when I found this site and had to make up a screenname, I thought it was only fitting that I pay tribute to the first team I ever played on.

  14. REAL hockey rules league

    in General Discussion

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    I'm in! I think a 20 game season would be good, everybody plays each other 2x. Blackdevil and I play with these rules all the time, the games are always a blast.

    I love playing with offsides/line changes, it adds a whole new element of strategy to the games, even though the computer AI is pretty bad with staying onside. I find that the dump n' chase strategy is a good one for getting into the zone without having your cpu teammates f you over constantly.

    Hey marchawg, if we got this league going could we use seahag to upload the games? Maybe make a "league" section of the site?

  16. Gens B1 ready to play after 11pm and before 9:30pm CST *LAG WARNING*

    in Schedule A Game

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    hey i only have 2 games out of 6 and i need to get in some games tonight to avoid the "run the risk of replacement" now i have a wifi connection (for now,i just need to find the CD-R to my USB modem cable and ill run a wired connection) and it might lag badly or just slightly depending on how much interference there is (wind,trees) so if you are up for it just hit me up (saintsfan2500) on AIM and we can play.

    Holy LOL

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