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Ottawa Senators founding date

A question has been raised on the talk page of the National Hockey League article regarding the founding date of the Ottawa Senators. Any opinions and feedback others have is appreciated. Resolute 20:52, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

The club existed from 1883 as the Ottawa Hockey Club (Ottawa Hockey Association). They played against the Montreal AAA and Victorias and Shamrocks in a tournament in Montreal. In 1901, before the 1902 season they became the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club (Ottawa Hockey Association). They eventually became an NHL club. In 1934-35, the Association operated an Ottawa Senators amateur senior team, and operated the St. Louis Eagles in the NHL. After the season, the NHL bought out the players and took back its franchise, with the promise that proceeds from any future sale of the franchise would go back to the Association. The amateur senior hockey team continued play, although it did change ownership, until 1955. In 1989, Mr. Firestone started a campaign to 'Bring Back the Senators', with the family of a previous owner as part of the campaign and with a former player as part of the campaign. It was successful in persuading the NHL to sell him the franchise. There is no information about the promise being kept or whether it was a real promise, etc. On opening night, the NHL president of the time presented the club with a 'certificate of reinstatement'. Since that time, the NHL record books list the founding as 1991, the date of the franchise purchase becoming 'unconditional', but don't mention the reinstatement certificate. Several wikipedians are definitely opposed to the idea that the clubs are linked, while others believe the reinstatement ties the two together. I believe that we should recognize the earliest founding date, not the NHL founding date, otherwise the Canadiens would become founded in 1917, the Canucks in 1970, the Maple Leafs in 1927, which disregards their 'other' history. Alaney2k 13:55, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the Leafs would still be 1917. A simple name change is not the same as a new franchise. Otherwise, you'll be adjusting Anaheim to 2006. Resolute 14:40, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

It was more than a name change in 1927. The 1917 club was a temporary franchise, no nickname, nothing, operated by the arena owners, using the NHA Blue Shirts players, all sanctioned by the NHL. They applied for a permanent franchise in 1918, and formed the Arena Hockey Club then so they could dodge a Livingstone lawsuit. When he succeeded, they put the arena into bankruptcy to avoid paying. The St. Pat's group, though, paid the NHL, not the Arena Company, to join the NHL. That might be a more accurate founding date, though the Toronto NHL franchise started in 1917. And if you were to follow that logic, the first date of the Ottawa NHL franchise would be 1917 also, suspended in 1935, reinstated in 1991. Alaney2k 19:11, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Again, there's two Ottawa Senators franchises. GoodDay 21:04, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I would say instead that there are two clubs/organizations which have played using the Ottawa NHL franchise. If you look beyond just the NHL, in a historical fashion, at the whole Senators history, the founding is 1884. Why is that so difficult for people to accept? Alaney2k 22:02, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Probably the part where two separate franchises are being treated as one. Its akin to the Edmonton Oil Kings scenario I mentioned yesterday. In this case, three franchises with the same name. If we treat them as one, then you have a problem where two are playing concurrently - the new Oil Kings, and the Portland Winterhawks. Sharing a name, and PR tie-ins =/= the same franchise. Resolute 22:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Like I said before, the campaign was to 'Bring Back the Senators'. The campaign listed the Cups, etc. A 1927 Senator was part of the campaign. A descendent of a previous owner was part of it, as well. It was the intention all along! That is why the certificate was given, because it mattered to the ownership of Ottawa and the people of Ottawa. In the absence of a statement saying that Mr. Stein erred, it has to stand. Alaney2k 23:16, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

'Bring back the Senators' was a PR move, it didn't retroactively declare - that a franchise was suspended for nearly 60 years. If we follow your reasoning (and the NHL's attempt to re-write history), the two Senators articles would have to be 'merged'. GoodDay 17:43, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

It would be 'heresy' to have a merged article? Why would I be against that? Is THAT what's it about? Can you explain your personal opposition to such an idea? There are practical advantages to having a merged article. Currently, there are three Ottawa Senators team articles, two sets of seasons. We just change the Ottawa Senators (original) to a redirect. There already is a 'History of' article that covers the issue. If this whole issue is debatable, then maybe we should frame the debate within a merged article. Alaney2k 22:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Merging the 'Ottawa Senators' articles would be a wrong move. Those are different franchises. GoodDay 22:48, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

The NHL reinstated it publicly. You know that. Maybe it has to be repeated. As I've said before, if they give out a certificate, and they haven't taken it back, it counts. Opinions are opinions, but there were witnesses. The president of the league made the presentation. As I've also said before, you can make an indisputable case that they are different clubs. A club can travel from league-to-league, as the Canucks or Canadiens, or original Sens have done, but these clubs had franchises in separate leagues. Now, what I've said over and over and over is that the two Ottawa clubs are linked, and the linkage is more than the certificate, it's the Gormans, it's the name, the colours, the streets around the arena, the development plan, the 1894 shoulder-patch logo, the new 'O' logo on the new jerseys. The intent from the beginning was to revive the Sens. A lot of people think that was just PR, but its not, it was a deliberate decision by Firestone. The people of Ottawa are proud of the Sens history but they would have accepted another name. Let's examine the PR argument. Do you think the Sens name helped the NHL to draw fans? Do you think it helped draw fans to the Ottawa arena? No, the intent was to revive the name. Even the mini-city plans promoted the 'revival' of the Sens. Now, look at Cleveland. The assets, the players and staff went to Baltimore. The NFL decided deliberately to say that the Browns would return, despite a lack of logic to it. They held an expansion draft for the Browns too. Why hold a different standard of logic to the NHL?? Ottawa has had other situations. The CFL, for example. The Rough Riders folded, and the Renegades had the CFL franchise for a while. Different name. Completely different intent. A fresh start. You hear and read in the media about the Sens being 'revived' or 'returned' in '92. It's not going to go away, so don't impose opinions here on Wikipedia because you don't like what the media says. Go with the facts. Firestone paid $50 million to get the Sens. Alaney2k 03:48, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I think what you are missing is the fact that the NHL HAS taken back the certificate de facto by later declaring that none of the old records and stats etc have been carried over to the new franchise. I would like to see it as the same franchise as much as you would. In fact last time this argument came up I argued it from your side, however the others provided tonnes of proof that the NHL itself has by their actions (even if they didn't hold a press conference to announce it) revoked their certificate reinstating the team and made the franchise a brand new franchise. And to tell you the truth yes I do think calling them the Senators helped bring more people to the games. People like a sense of nostalgia. The Cleveland example is different as well because all the old records from the old Browns are still honoured with the new incarnation. As well when the old Browns "moved" to Baltimore the NFL said it wasn't the Browns moving, that it was actually an expansion team in Baltimore which is why none of the records moved with the team to Baltimore. --Djsasso 04:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

The NHL keeping the records separate is mentioned. But it's not really the NHL's Wikipedia, is it? If I were to make a guess, I would say they have taken the 'expedient' way out. I would say that they would not want to upset fans of other teams by saying now we have a team with 9 or 11 Cups. It's like jumping the queue, in a way. No, I think we can state that the records are kept separately. Even the Sens' staff is pretty ignorant of the history, I'm certain. And that leads to crap press releases about how we've done this for the first time and being ignorant that people know otherwise. But the reinstatement is consistent and relevant to Firestone's plans. Maybe he even asked for it and Stein went along with it, but when Bettman came in, things changed. But that's all speculation. Anyway, I think we all agree that the two are different. Maybe we even agree that the return of a Sens club to the NHL is connected to the old club. But we disagree in how to mark the connections. Whether the actual legal franchise is different is not that important. As shown by the NFL. Modell didn't have to buy a new franchise. I don't think he even had to trade it. We may never see the legal documents. Maybe in the Sens page, if the Bring Back section was before the Original Era section, people would not be upset. Hard to say. Alaney2k 21:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Third opinion offer

It appears there is a pretty extensive debate here. Can someone please summarize for me what the issue is (note: I don't want to hear - he did this to me or she said that about this). I want to know what the content dispute is over in a concise statement. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  04:06, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Basically there have been two teams named the Senators in Ottawa that have played in the NHL. One folded 70 years ago. A new one was given in the early nineties. As part of the opening ceremonies of the first game of the new franchise the NHL gave a certificate stating they were reinstating the old franchise. Think novelty check. However, since that time the NHL through its actions has shown that no records have carried over from the old team, retired numbers have been reactivated and the like. The argument is basically when was the actual founding date. The date of the first franchise or the second. --Djsasso 04:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I would be interested in finding more out about retired numbers having been re-activated. Alaney2k 14:08, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Okay, does everyone feel that is an accurate description of the "dispute"? Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  04:25, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

From my POV, yes. Alaney2k is the primary opposer to this POV. It is also notable that official NHL publications also treat the two Senators franchises as separate. Resolute 04:49, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

• Let's not get into who said what to whom and on what date. My goal here is to asses the validity of the arguments and try and offer a suggestion that will help find compromise. Is there any other disputed content and does anyone have a link to the actual articles in question. It appears one is the Ottawa Senators article. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  04:53, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

• That was not my intention. I simply wanted to point out that before you accept that what Djsasso wrote is accurate, that he should have a chance to comment as well. Resolute 05:19, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

No worries. In the future, you could probably accomplish the same thing by mentioning this to the involved editor rather than identify them by their stance on the issue. Just trying to keep things all nice and friendly! :-) Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  05:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I do not dispute that two teams named the Ottawa Senators have played in the NHL. To me, the fact that the NHL president presented the certificate publicly gives it some weight and should not be omitted. The Ottawa Senators article mentions that the NHL keeps the records and stats separately. The objections seem to be to the inclusion of the historical information and linkage. I believe it is relevant. The current and past owners of the team pay attention to that history and linkage. (Championship banners of the first club are displayed at the arena of the current club. ) The media and fans do also. For someone who sees Ottawa Senators in the NHL in 1927 or the Silver Seven and wonder if it is related, this is helpful and interesting knowledge. Alaney2k 14:01, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

We have no problem showing the linkage with appropriate weighting in the article. What they have issue with is using the 1884 date as the founding of the franchise. --Djsasso 14:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

It is clearly labelled as 1991 (current club) and below that 1884 (original club). Of course, 'appropriate weighting' is subjective. I did notice the opposite effect going on, where the words new and first time, etc. were being interjected into the text over and over, in a way that is needlessly repetitive and mostly unnecessary. It comes across as bullying a point. There are competing points of view on the reinstatement. I have only argued to include the facts. Also, I do not object being considered the proponent of the view that the two clubs are linked, but I have not argued to merge the Ottawa Senators (original) and Ottawa Senators articles. Maybe at some point, we will get a clarification from the NHL on the reinstatement. I think we are working in a bit of vacuum and that has lead to opinions being considered as fact. Alaney2k 14:40, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

By insisting that the 1884-1934 Senators & the 1991- present Senators are the same franchise/club; the St. Louis Eagles would also have to be included in such a 'merger'. GoodDay 19:03, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

There are separate Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche pages. Alaney2k 19:26, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Guys how about y'all just agree to disagree and let things be as status quo as most of the project long ago has agreed the current status is where they wanted to be with this issue. There is still linkage info in the article and we have both dates listed so there really isn't any issue is there? As long as there is a link pointing to the old senators article and a small paragraph explaining the certificate thats all that needs to be on the new senators article. The rest can be covered in the old senators article. --Djsasso 19:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, for the sake of my 'sanity', I'll accept the 'truce'. GoodDay 19:33, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Hockey pages are really owned by people, me too. I hope you have not thought I was being insulting or anything. I must admit I don't complete understand the objection to having the history. I think it sets up the unlikely campaign by Firestone, which is the founding of the current club. But I do think that I have tried to back up the things I have added with references and quotations. I also do not understand the irritation over the reinstatement certificate. I have tried to add info to the NHL articles somewhat outside Total Hockey, such as the stuff on Livingstone, etc. I do think there is a lot more out there that needs to be there. Like 'Deceptions and Doublecross' and 'Lords of the Rinks' or 'Power Plays.' I think things like the reinstatement are interesting, whether it is bogus or not in the legal sense. I would be happy to have the words, controversial, etc. there. But something that can be backed up. Like say a quote by Dan Diamond. I put that the records and stats are kept separately. The NHL articles are a bit inconsistent in founding, though, (and need work to back up their facts!) and yet I've found three Wikipedians who want the Senators page to be consistent and I seem to be riling them up... :-) my apologies Alaney2k 19:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

No need to apologies, you haven't wronged anyone. I'm not the Senators pages' custodian (my word isn't law). For example: I've had to accept the Vancouver Canucks WHL-NHL thing; I'd rather that page be seperated into Vancouver Canucks and Vancouver Canucks (WHL). Anyways - no hard feelings. GoodDay 20:16, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Gilbert Perreault

Edit war brewing; comments and thoughts appreciated on the talk page.  RGTraynor  21:04, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

To be more precise. Debate has been going on at User_talk:RGTraynor#Gilbert_Perreault regarding

RGTraynor edits,

TonyTheTiger partial revert,

RGTraynor revert,

TonyTheTiger line by line item by item revert (see edit summaries).--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 01:26, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

NHL team founding year

There's inconsistancies on most of the NHL team pages 'founding dates' (at the Infoboxes). They 'erroroneusly' give the 'inaugural season' date of the franchise, not the founding date. Perhaps clarification is needed at the those articles infoboxes. GoodDay 21:33, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

If they all give the inagural season year, then I would hardly call that inconsistent. The question is whether that is an error. Hardly anybody refers to a franchise's founding date as the date which the team was awarded. Most go by when the team started play. The Penguins in 1967, the Sharks in 1991, the Thrashers in 1999, etc. Resolute 01:14, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Also, if it is simply a case of thinking that "Founding" is the wrong word in the infobox, we could easily change the template to something like "First season". Most team articles already mention in the body when a franchise was awarded. Resolute 01:23, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

How about two fields? One, for founding of the team and another for inaugural nhl season? Montreal would be 1909 and 1917, Vancouver would be 1945 and 1970. On that basis, Ottawa should be 1893 and 1917, though, which several wikipedians dislike, and i should add seem to be fixated on. Toronto is problematic also. The Maple Leafs started in 1927, but i doubt the 'leaf nation' would accept this. But you can't go by 1917, that was temporary. 1918 was temporary, 1919 (St. Pats) is supposedly the permanent franchise start, as by then the players had no contract links with Livingstone. Alaney2k 13:43, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

We're fixated on the Ottawa business because it just is not true; that would be like calling us "fixated" on asserting that the sky is blue. That being said, I see no harm with mentioning both the founding dates of the franchises and the inaugural NHL season for the team; plainly the distinction involved pertinent information of interest to readers.  RGTraynor  15:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Can we keep the Ottawa discussion in one place, please? Resolute 15:52, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

To allow Montreal and Vancouver to be consistent it should be club founding dates, then, not franchises. Alaney2k 19:21, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

User:Jaranda/Notabilty (sports)

Hi, I strongly recommed this project to give your notabilty guidelines for a new notabilty proposal that I'm creating on my userpage, once it is completed, I will move to wikipedia namespace for the community to decide. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 22:51, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

You can see our notability guidelines for the project here. --Djsasso 23:25, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks done, I asked all the top sports that I don't deal with to add their guidelines, like hockey for example. Wikipedia really needs a streight forward guidelines regarding sports articles, one wikiproject isn't happy though (the college football ones, who I don't get fully along with because of a deletionist stance regarding those articles), but it's the community who decides, not me of course. Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 00:06, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Speaking of Notability

I just discovered this: Category:St. John's Fog Devils players. It jumped out at me at first because it is not named according to conventions. Then I noticed that most of the player pages were recently created by the same user and most of the players probably fail to meet notability guidelines. Anyone care to tackle it? Skudrafan1 13:05, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Not only this, but I've also now noticed that the user in question removed players from the properly named Category:St. John's Fog Devils alumni to place them into this improperly named category (example). Skudrafan1 13:10, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I will fix it today. --Djsasso 14:05, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I noticed this change too, because of Oscar Sundh. Didn't know about the MJH convention though. There is a redlink in our page Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Category structure, which perhaps can be the cause of someones dead-end confusion. --Bamsefar75 14:09, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Fixed the redlink. That was created before the league categories were expanded to the full name of the league. Resolute 14:12, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I prod'd all the players that weren't notable. Some of them are so un-notable that they haven't even shown up in the hockeydb yet. --Djsasso 14:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be deleted as well Category:St. John's Fog Devils player? T Rex | talk 15:59, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Didn't notice that was there. I will put that up for an admin to delete as well. --Djsasso 16:09, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Wait a sec, an active player for a team is not an alumnus. So, I don't believe that these players belong in an alumni category. Also, WP:CSD#C1 only applies if the category has been empty for four days, which clearly these have not. -- JamesTeterenko 16:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, you are an alumni in this respect the minute you play a game for a team since there is no actual graduating involved which was why all the player cats were killed before and the names changed to alumni. As far as the reasoning this last one was empty for 4 days as it was a typo. The first one I put through I accidentally used the wrong template out of habbit but I mean we could have it reinstated then I kill it in 4 days anyways...Either way active players have been put in the alumni cats for a long time. We use the term alumni cause thats what the CHL uses, not because they are actually graduating like you would from University etc. --Djsasso 16:53, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Check out alumnus, which says, according to the American Heritage Dictionary is "a male graduate or former student of a school, college, or university." It does not only include graduates, it is all former "students". I have personally never heard this term to mean current members (or students). If you look at the description of most of the categories, you see that they say former members. For example, see the leading text of Category:Quebec Major Junior Hockey League alumni, which says, "The following is a list of subcategories of notable former players who played for teams in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League." (emphasis added). -- JamesTeterenko 17:04, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Further expansion regarding the term "alumni". Again grabbed from the alumnus article, Recently, the definition of "alumni" has expanded to include people who have departed from any kind of organization or program. As such, one can potentially be a "corporate alum" of XYZ Company, or an alum of a military branch, non-profit organization, fraternities and sororities, or training process. Just to get out of the school context, this is very clear that it is a former member of given this definition. -- JamesTeterenko 17:11, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually if you check the descriptions of most of the CHL teams they say current and former players. Since most current players would not meet notability requirements it would be rediculous to create categories for single players on teams when there might be 10 players in the QMJHL at any time that meet the notability requirements. I am all for having a category called Category:Quebec Major Junior Hockey League players but not one for each team. To go by your method we would have to remove non-active players out of the NHL players categories because they are no longer players which is no different than this circumstance where it is a given they will be alumni.--Djsasso 17:15, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, I just checked a bunch relatively randomly, and the only category that I could find that says current players, is this one that you just changed. I'll admit that I only looked at about ten categories, but that was the only one that included current members in the description. All of the league "players" categories do exist. If I am tagging an article of an existing junior player, I usually put them in that category. I do have a problem with putting current players in the alumni category, because that is very clearly not common usage of that term. -- JamesTeterenko 17:26, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I can agree with putting them in the overall league category and not in the alumni categories. I have no problem with that. It does appear that most of the QMJHL ones don't say that but I do believe most of the OHL and WHL ones do as I remember checking that awhile back. Either way this category does need to go eventually. --Djsasso 17:31, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

(outdent) As I recall, that was what was kind of agreed upon last year when all of the player and alumni categories went through the CfD process. There are so few notable junior players that there is no need to subcat them by team, so they all can fit in the League players category. Once they graduate, they get moved to the Team(s) alumni category. Resolute 17:36, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I moved the one Fog Devil not up for prod/afd to the league category. The rest I left cause they are likely to pass prod/afd and will not end up being there anyways. --Djsasso 17:40, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Okay great, I think can agree on the following:

• An active player for a team should not be put in the alumni category for that team
• If the majority of the players that you have tagged with {{prod}} are deleted, then there would be no purpose for Category:St. John's Fog Devils players. (For the ones that I noticed, I believe that that they will deleted without dispute and/or would not pass an AFD discussion.)

-- JamesTeterenko 17:43, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

That sounds good to me. I just didn't want to see a case where we suddenly had two categories of this type for every team like we had for awhile. I am more than happy to have them in the overall league category until they leave a specific team. --Djsasso 17:51, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

The creator is disputing all of the prod tags on the players talk pages. I really hate to bite a newish editor, but I will list them all for AfD. Resolute 21:40, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I was going to move them all to afd but I got distracted and forgot. --Djsasso 21:41, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Just so you know, when I originally created all these categories, they were meant at first for players who moved on to the NHL, that's why I called them alumni. Since then, the notability standards have changed as many more player articles have been created so I dunno these days whether it should be "players" or "alumni". As for this user, he created an article about himself and that got deleted, so I'd be very wary. Croat Canuck Say hello or just talk 22:08, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Awhile back someone created duplicates of all the alumni categories with the word players, at that time it was decided that because the CHL calls all of its old players alumni that those should be the categories kept. I believe thats the discussion that was being talked about. --Djsasso 22:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

National Street Hockey League

Is this a real league? I live in one of the cities that is claimed to have a team and have never heard of it and I am sure I would have. I am going to prod it, but if anyone does have more information feel free to remove the prod. --Djsasso 14:49, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, zero google hits for "National Street Hockey League", sounds like either a local rec league, or a fantasy league that someone felt the need to create an article for. Resolute 14:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Can you tell I am still asleep? It never even dawned on me to check google. It's totally one of those days... --Djsasso 14:59, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm tempted to just delete it, but given it asserts it is a pro league, I don't think any speedy criteria qualifies. Hoaxes aren't a speedy reason either. Guess it lives for five more days. Resolute 15:05, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Well as expected he disputed it so its now up for afd. --Djsasso 23:59, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Awards featured topic

This is looking forward a bit, but I know several of us have discussed making a featured topic out of the NHL awards. Having featured topic experience with WWE championships, I learned (the hard way) that a category is not acceptable as a uniting factor for the articles/lists. We need to have a lead article that is at least GA, if not featured status. That would be National Hockey League awards; my question is: is this an article or a list? I would argue list, on similar criteria as the awards themselves, since there is little prose and mostly listings. In any event, I would say this list needs to reach FL status before we finish the individual awards, so that we can promote the topic as featured once the awards are done. Anthony Hit me up... 19:01, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I would say that the article is best evaluated by the GA, then FL, and FA systems. I'd try for an FL, or at the very least GA, which I can grant right now quite easily, as it satisfied requirements. Maxim_(talk) 19:07, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

It definitely falls under the list category. And, by the way, lists can not be GAs, so it would be best to go straight for FL. I've also worked on an FT - The Simpsons (season 8) - and the lead article of that FT has substantial sections of prose, but it is still a list. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 19:18, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Should someone grant it GA status in case? Maxim_(talk) 19:22, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Like I said, the GA criteria specifically excludes lists. You could try it, but I am pretty sure that any reviewer would conclude that it's a list. Try asking User:Colin or User:Circeus, both of whom are well versed in FL criteria. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 19:24, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Like Scorpion said, lists cannot be Good articles. T Rex | talk 20:08, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

It could be an article with a list component, but in that case, would have to be significantly expanded. I'd be willing to put it up for FL status now, if everyone agrees the lead section is ok. The big hangup right now for me though is that I cannot find a RS for NHL/Sheraton Road Performer Award. I can't even verify that it still exists. It may have to be removed entirely for the time being. Resolute 20:33, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Which one should be moved

I was about to create an article for a tournament and decided to look up how the Spengler Cup article, since I knew that individual season articles for the Spengler Cup existed. I wanted to know what the naming convention was but this didn't help me much since one articles was named Spengler Cup 2005 and the other 2006 Spengler Cup. Of course on of the articles should be moved for consistency; but which one? --Krm500 12:49, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I'd say "Spengler Cup 2005" is incorrect, it also needs more content. IrisKawling 18:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I would prefer xxxx Spengler Cup as well. Royal Bank Cup 2005 has annoyed me for some time now for the same reason. Resolute 19:02, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I too think the year should be first. --Djsasso 19:05, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

It sounds way better with the year first. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mister Hockey (talk • contribs) 05:57, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, it should be xxxx Spengler Cup. GoodDay 20:48, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Moved per consensus. T Rex | talk 20:59, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Ottawa Senators TopInfobox

The 'Topinfobox', gives the false impression that the Senators of 1884-1934 & the Senators of 1934-55 are the same club as the Senators of 1992- present. Just because somethings have the same name, doesn't make them the same thing. GoodDay 21:36, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Senators Context

I've also removed edits 'suggesting' the original Senators (1884-1934) are the current Senators (1992-present). GoodDay 20:08, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Someone pinch me, please. We've been described as obsessed, again someone pinch me. GoodDay 22:02, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

::Here we go again; this time Al has a 'supporter' (supporting linkage with 1884-1934 Senators). GoodDay 19:35, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

It's kind of ironic...y'all have bickered and played with the article so much over the last couple weeks that it is now bloated and could really use some of the information cut out and moved to apropriate season articles. For example there is way to much about this years playoff run compared to most other teams where they actually won the cup. --Djsasso 19:51, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

That's true, all this info can be found at 2007 Stanley Cup Finals and 2006-07 NHL season. Once again though, the core of it? 1884-1934 Senators linkage/no linkage 1992-present Senators, constant struggle. GoodDay 20:02, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't necessarily think its a bad thing. Its good to see people editing an article. I just think someone who is better at it than I do a summary for the entire season this past year and then put it into the article instead of what is currently there which is far to huge. I don't really care about the linkage stuff that wasn't part of this particular point. That is a seperate arguement. --Djsasso 20:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Hopefully someone will summarize it, as it is 'bloated'. GoodDay 20:18, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

It's getting more 'bloated'. GoodDay 23:32, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

TopInfoboxes

There's been an attempt to remove non-NHL information, from the Top Infoboxes of other clubs (due to misunderstanding of Senators situation). Be on the lookout, everyone. GoodDay 14:38, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I would hardly call it a misunderstanding. It is a shame that Alaney is choosing to create a WP:POINT disruption in response to having no support for his Senators argument. Resolute 18:23, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

At this point, would calling in an uninvolved admin be appropriate? I'm this close to asking for someone to step in, preferrably on WP:AN since the above mediation only seemed to work for a few days. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 00:52, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Alan has created a new page (see below) which suggestion continuation among all clubs named 'Ottawa Senators'. PS- I gave up trying to correct it, can't keep up with him. GoodDay 01:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I think an Admin would be a splendid idea. Some form of concrete arbitration and enforcement, it is frustrating to see and I think it makes the WP look bad... let's fix this now. DMighton 01:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Done. Posted at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#POV_pusher_in_Ottawa_Senators-related_articles. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 01:29, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm betting that that post will get shot down very quickly, as this is really a content dispute, which AN/ANI doesn't typically deal with. WP:RFC might be the better route at this point. Resolute 01:32, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I put those non-NHL information texts in the NHL topinfoboxes to start with. So I removed them for the sake of consistency. And they've been put back! Sheesh. Alaney2k 16:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Djsasso & RGTraynor have explained to you why. GoodDay 19:31, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Nobody has suggested removing the non-NHL history at Ottawa Senators (original) either. Consistency is not the same as pushing a point. Resolute 19:46, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Quite aside from this simple and basic fact: these are not, per se, "NHL" articles. They are articles about member teams in the NHL. Demonstrably, six of those teams have pre-NHL provenance.  RGTraynor  20:31, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

My point was that I put them in. I believed they were in error. Since I put them in, I felt I should take them out. Now, I just read the WP:POINT article. That's not the same as a WP:POINT. My wikistress is high. :-) Alaney2k 20:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Just keep in mind A2k, the Ottawa Senators franchise has been an NHL franchise its entire existance. While the Ottawa Senators (original)/St. Louis Eagles franchise, wasn't always an NHL franchise -but ended as one. GoodDay 20:42, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Fighting in Ice Hockey screenshot

User talk:Misza13 deleted it on the 31st as an orphaned image... I don't know what to do about it... but maybe one of you guys will. DMighton 22:11, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

It's used, it's a reasonable part of WP:IAR. We're trying to make the encyclopedia better. What I do is protect it, and Betacommand bot can't bug us. Maxim_(talk) 23:57, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Please do so, my talk page has been bombarded with automatic orphan notes from him. --Krm500 12:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Game template

Anyone else feel like we need a template for hockey games? For use in season articles and tournament articles? Today we have Template:IceHockeybox and Template:Ice Hockey Game, but neither is perfect. I defenitively feel a need for a new improved box which we can use in season articles and such. My wish is all fields optional (except for teams and score) and to be able to hide extra information (box score). --Krm500 22:52, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

What other features would you like the template to have?--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 19:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

History of Ottawa Senators teams

Could someone check this article for 'original research'? It leans heavy on suggestion Ottawa Senators (original), senior Ottawa Senators clubs and Ottawa Senators are all the same continous franchise. GoodDay 01:07, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps it's a candidate for 'deletion'? GoodDay 01:36, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

It is a pretty blatant WP:SYNTH violation. Mish-mashing the history of several clubs of the same name in an attempt to show continuity? Blatantly WP:OR, and completely unnecessary, as Ottawa Senators (original), Ottawa Senators (senior hockey) and Ottawa Senators both cover the topic quite well. It probably should go to AfD. Resolute 01:38, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks like NeoChaosX is nominating it. My own attempt at a nomination ended in an edit conflict with his. Resolute 01:42, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Yup, I decided to nominate it. Discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Ottawa Senators teams‎. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 01:46, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

No need to over-react. It's all stuff copied over from the various Sens articles, and expanded. Alaney2k 15:56, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

That's exactly the problem... --Djsasso 16:01, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

You can't please everyone. Others said there was too much history on the article page. Alaney2k 21:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

But again I think you miss the point. The point was that too much of the history belonged on one of the other pages. ie you shouldn't put a tonne of stuff about the original senators on the new senators page or the other way around. This didn't fix that any. --Djsasso 22:14, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Should I paste back the history stuff to the current article? Or is that premature? Then you can review whether it was too much? Alaney2k 22:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Peer review

I stole this idea from the Wikiproject Metal where I have an article on peer review. I think this will help us work together. I created a page where everyone can put hockey articles on peer review. They are still submitted at Wikipedia:Peer review, but placing them there is likely to ensure a greater response from hockey editors. So participants of the project get more feedback and help and we have better articles. I think more peer reviews should be done, I'm not sure we work together here as much as we should, so this a small step for it. Check it out here. What do you think?--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 21:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

This is cool, but what I'd like to see is a place where we can put pages up for peer review among ourselves before we put them up for full-blown peer review. This would help us create better quality articles overall, whether they get sent up for promotion or not. For example, I'd like to put List of Buffalo Sabres players up for candidacy as a featured list, but I'd like other hockey editors to help me out before I do so. It would save me from another fiasco like when I tried to get Buffalo Sabres draft history promoted, which it wasn't. Skudrafan1 23:46, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

But in peer review there is no "fiasco" because things aren't promoted there. It's just feedback, so the more people the better, right? When submitting to peer review you don't have to necessarily want to put in the article in WP:GAC or WP:FAC. This is not the same as the way things go in FAC and WP:FLC.--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 10:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I guess my problem is that I just don't understand the process at all. Skudrafan1 12:19, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Skudrafan1, my idea with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Article Improvement was that user could add articles they are working on, so other user could help, come with ideas. Sort of a "project peer review". --Krm500 19:24, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Thought I had seen it all

Check out the recent edit (that I have reverted) to Los Angeles Kings. Scroll down to "Known Fans." The idiocy of some people amazes me. -- Gmatsuda 02:21, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

I once saw a guy add a "Fictional Couches" section to the Couch article. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 03:53, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

I just reverted an edit where one user had wikilinked the word "ice" in the entire history section of the Ice Hockey article.... --Krm500 12:19, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Expert review: Oxford City Stars

As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether Oxford City Stars is notable enough for an own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! --B. Wolterding 13:59, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Left a reply on the talk page of the article. Resolute 19:51, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Portal:Ice hockey

We have a portal, yet I'm the only one right now who gives a <refactored>, or whatever :D... Set that aside, I'd be interested to hear some ideas for a "Featured bio", a "Featured picture", a "Featured non-bio article", and some DYK. Maxim_(talk) 19:06, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Easy on the profanity, please. GoodDay 19:18, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

To be honest I never go to the portal cause I don't know that I have any interest in it. --Djsasso 19:20, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Reviving Staal family

Staal family got deleted before I could remove the prod. The family is clearly notable, just look at the top 3 Ghits for the terms Staal family NHL...USA Today, CBC and the NHL are pretty good sources for notability. Anyone interested in restoring the article, or (since it was a synthesis of the individual players' bios) writing a better one? I don't have time right now...

USATODAY.com - Staal family making a name in NHLOne indication of Henry and Linda Staal's ability to produce NHL talent is there is a worker shortage on the family sod farm in Ontario. [www.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/draft/2006-06-22-staal-family_x.htm]

NHL.com - In The Spotlight, For the Staal family, the comparisons to the Sutter brothers are inevitable. ... Staal, the second-overall pick in the 2003 draft, was named the NHL's ...[www.nhl.com/features/spotlight/staal120205.html]

CBC Sports Online: Hockey's next first family? Family business: With four boys destined for the NHL – Eric is already ...www.cbc.ca/sports/columns/newsmakers/staal_m.html - 20k - Canuckle 19:14, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

That wasn't the reason it was deleted. It was deleted because all it was, was a cut and paste of 4 different articles which violates WP:SYNTH. I am sure it will eventually be recreated and written in a much better format. But as it was, it was in a very poor format and was litterally all of the brothers pages cut and pasted together. If it was written like Sutter family it would probably be ok. That being said, only two of the brothers have played in the NHL so far so I don't know if it merrits its own article just yet other than to have the family aspect mentioned on each players page. --Djsasso 19:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

WP:SYN is for the exact opposite situation of this. It's for original research using published material (usally external to Wikipedia) to make a conclusion or prove a point. Clearly, the published material makes the conclusion (Staals are a notable hockey family) and this has been accepted on List of family relations in the National Hockey League. Even the speculation that they are the "next greatest" hockey family would be acceptable because it is sourced speculation. That's no reason to delete an article. It was wrong that the article was a synthesis (as I noted) of the Wikipedia bios. But that deserves a clean-up tag and rescuing not outright deletion without a redirect even placed. Canuckle 20:20, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

If anything, the family article should exist so that the (likely non-notable) younger brothers' individual articles could be merged, as suggested in Talk:Jared Staal. Canuckle 20:32, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Howabout waiting until Marc & Jared join the NHL, before giving the family an article. Honestly, this ain't the Sutter family - their accomplishments aren't as impressive. GoodDay 20:44, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I saw the article before it was deleted. It looked as if the articles of the individual brothers were just appended to each other, giving no additional value to the articles on their own. So, I did nothing to contest the prod, since I didn't think it was much of a loss. This has nothing to do with WP:SYN AKA "Synthesis of published material serving to advance a position". No position was being served. Actually, a position could have been advanced that speaks more about the talent of the family, since there are a number of published works about the family as a whole. And this could be done without bringing in any original research. If someone were to create a decent article, such as the one for the Sutter family, it probably would be worth keeping. -- JamesTeterenko 21:19, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, it needed a complete overhaul. I remember running into it a few months back and thinking to myself how useless the article was in its current form, but I didn't push for deletion because the media has turned it into such a popular topic... look at all the stories/commercials that this family has spawned since the family became notable. Mention that instead of just the individuals. Croat Canuck Say hello or just talk 22:33, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

List of hockey nicknames

Okay, what to do with this list? Right now its an unorganized clutter of great names, made-up names, and disposable one-time usage names. And very, meticulously sourced I may add ;). This is an article I would love to see in really good condition or even featured someday, but right now its just a flat-out mess. First of all, there has to be some measure of notability for these nicknames to be included, otherwise it would just become an infinite list of misnomers. I mean there are players that according to this have four, five, or even six nicknames? Anyone have any ideas how to improve or set guidelines for this article?? Croat Canuck Say hello or just talk 22:51, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, we have a issue to decide first. Do we order alphabetically the nicknames, or the players who have them? Being a list of nicknames, it would make more sense to order the nicknames, but to see players who have more than one nickname (Joe Sakic is Super Joe and Burnaby Joe) it would be better to order the names of the player. I'd be interested in working in an article like this. We should use what there is a reference to make research but really start from zero. Only use reliable sources such as books, NHL.com and mainstream media hockey coverage sites like thehockeynews, TSN, Sports Illustrated, ESPN and so on.--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 23:07, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes exactly, just blow it all up and start all over again, maybe even cite every nickname that isn't extremely obvious (like Rocket Richard or The Great One or Punch Imlach etc.)... I like listing it by name personally as opposed to nickname. Croat Canuck Say hello or just talk 23:19, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, good thing. I believe ordering by the names of the players instead of the nicknames would be better. And the most common will be easy to cite. Every nickname in the list should be cited to avoid those Prongs for Chris Pronger and that kind of made up nicknames by changing the name of the player a little. When do you want to start?--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 23:24, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Player	Nat	Nickname	Note
Joe Sakic		Burnaby Joe, Super Joe, Mr Clutch

Team	Nickname	Note
Montreal Canadiens	Habs	<ref></ref>

Arena	Club	Nickname	Note
HP Pavilion	San Jose Sharks	The Shark Tank	<ref></ref>

What do you think?--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 23:33, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks really good to me, we can start right away. Croat Canuck Say hello or just talk 22:46, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Just be sure to keep 'Dirty Bertie' in the article. Gee, that's a discriptive & catchy nickname. GoodDay 22:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Yea, looks good. I think that the table should be sortable though. --Krm500 22:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah I agree, sortable would be good, but Serte if you want to work on the newer nicknames for players, or the arena and team ones, I've got a beat on having the older nicknames sourced & listed. Croat Canuck Say hello or just talk 23:06, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I hope I don't get flamed here but honestly, I know that many including my self use Avs, Canes, Yotes, Preds and etc but should we really list them? They are just simple short versions of the name. --Krm500 23:55, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree, after all we don't list short-forms like "Mike" or "Jimmy" so why should those team names be any different? Croat Canuck Say hello or just talk 00:13, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Um, a recent list of nicknames was put up for deletion as trivia (sorry I don't know the outcome or link). Is this really necessary? Canuckle 00:20, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

See me personally, view it as important, because hockey has a long and interesting history of nicknames within the sport. The problem is without some sort of POV you can't just say some nicknames are notable when others are not, so right now we're just working on making sure that the names are sourced and we'll see what happens next. Croat Canuck Say hello or just talk 02:09, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Three nicknames just popped into my head as I was reading this, hopefully I'll be able to find a source for them later. By the way, this is User:Bsroiaadn, I just don't feel like logging in on a public computer, I'll be sure to find sources when I get home later tonight. 209.212.23.47 17:22, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Season articles change

It's to distinguish the team of the article when you are checking a game log in a season article. What if instead of having Home and Away columns and have the team appear 41 times on each side, we put only a column for the opponent and then this: New Jersey, @ Washington, @ Philadelphia, Detroit. The @ would indicate the game as away, no @ is at home. I think it would make these tables simpler and easier to read.--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 13:36, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

It is something I considered after the fact when I designed the layout, but by that time, I had already done about ten Flames articles and didn't want to go back and change, lol. Personally, I am fine with either way, though doing it the way you suggest would help reduce the size of the article. Resolute 22:58, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

How best to change the chart though?

Like this:

#	Date	Opponent	Result	Score	Decision	Attendance	Record	Pts
1	Jan 1	Edmonton	W	6-1	Kiprusoff	19,289	1-0-0	2
2	Jan 2	@Colorado	OTL	3-4	Kiprusoff	18,630	1-0-1	3
3	Jan 3	@Phoenix	W	11-0	Krahn	9,544	2-0-1	5

A little more compact:

#	Date	Opponent	Result	Decision	Attendance	Record	Pts
1	Jan 1	Edmonton	W 6-1	Kiprusoff	19,289	1-0-0	2
2	Jan 2	@Colorado	OTL 3-4	Kiprusoff	18,630	1-0-1	3
3	Jan 3	@Phoenix	W 11-0	Krahn	9,544	2-0-1	5

Or something else? Resolute 23:27, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I like the result column having the "result" and score together; the only problem might be a shootout loss because "SOL" isn't an official game stat, since there are only W, L, OTL columns. So we might need to keep the current "OT" column, especially for the playoffs when there are multiple overtimes. I don't know if this was your final product, so I just wanted to mention that recap should probably be kept as the last column and the dates should still be wikilinked, spelled out totally, along with linking the team faced. In addition, I would put a space between the "@" and the team name; I would also use "vs." when it is a home game. Is there a possibility to use the team's name instead of location (i.e. Oilers instead of Edmonton)? This is how I would make it:

#	Date	Opponent	Result	Decision	Attendance	Record	Pts	Recap
1	January 1	vs. Oilers	W 6-1	Kiprusoff	19,289	1-0-0	2
2	January 2	@ Avalanche	OTL 3-4	Kiprusoff	18,630	1-0-1	3

bmitchelf•T•F 05:04, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Anybody have an opinion on my version in comparison? bmitchelf•T•F 04:27, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure I see a point in the recap column, but other than that, looks good. Resolute 14:03, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

The recap column is there now. It's probably good as a reference, since an external link goes there. bmitchelf•T•F 23:08, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I asked about it earlier but forgot about it; Anyone else feel the need of a template for hockey games? The existing ones are not optimal, at least not for season articles. For example with smart parameters so instead of having to enter the color code you could just put an W, L, T and you get the correct background color. Other useful parameters; Attendance, Arena, Goaltender, Date (& time?) , Goaltender with SV% in parentheses. --Krm500 01:14, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Question

Does every NHL team get a season article like the baseball teams now??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Baseball/2007_MLB_team_articles--Mister Hockey 22:01, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes. In fact, I think it was our idea before baseball's, but that's neither here nor there. For the upcoming season's template, see below:

Skudrafan1 22:18, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

There was no unified project at WP:BASEBALL that I am aware of, but some teams, like the Minnesota Twins had articles for individual seasons before it caught on here. I lifted the idea from the college football project, adapting their template, and designing a hockey specific format that was very quickly adopted late last season. By my last count, there are nearly 200 articles using the {{NHLTeamSeason}} template. We still got a loooooong way to go. Resolute 04:33, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Update of national team templates

Some of you may have noticed my work today, updating many international tournament articles to use Template:ih and template:ihw for men's and women's teams respectively. These templates are very similar to ones I created for football (soccer), basketball, tennis, rugby, cricket, and more. The idea is that instead of managing a set of hundreds of individual flag templates (such as Template:CANh), a parameterized template can be used. There are several benefits:

1. It is built on the same system as the familiar {{flagicon}} and {{flag}} templates, making maintenance much easier. If an image needs to be changed, one edit fixes it everywhere.
2. Consistency is automatic. All flag icons, regardless of template, will have the same visual appearance. Size will be consistent, and all flags will have the alt attribute correctly set.
3. The label used to choose a historical variant is the same. For example, just as {{flagicon|Canada|1921}} is used to display the old red ensign (), {{ih|Canada|1921}} can be used for the national team for that era (Canada).
4. You have the convenience of using country codes or nation names, as you prefer. {{ih|CZE}} and {{ih|Czech Republic}} do the same thing.

Anyway, I am almost complete with this transition, and I have started to delete some of the templates that are now completely orphaned. Hope this helps! Andrwsc 00:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Cool. Thanks a lot, that will help keeping the templates organized.--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 11:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Statistics question

Hi guys, just a quick statistics question:

On the FLC for the William M. Jennings Trophy, the Minnesota Wild are listed as winning the trophy with 191 goals (that's what it says on the NHL standings page). However, this it says Minnesota had 184 goals allowed while this it says 191 goals allowed. It's the same thing happens at NHL.com; standings page has "191 GA" and the stats page has "184 GA". So, which is correct, and what is the reason for the goal differentials. Shootout goals? Empty net goals? Thanks for the time, Scorpion⁰⁴²² 02:05, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

My guess would be that the extra seven were empty-net goals, since they shouldn't count against the goaltenders. Skudrafan1 02:38, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Exactly. You should check the rules of the trophy and see if empty net goals count, because it may make the difference. For example, a team suffered 180 "normal goals" and 20 empty net. Another team suffered 190 "normal goals". Who wins the trophy? And what is the number of goals you should list?--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 11:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Legendsofhockey specifically says 191 [1], so I guess they DO count empty net goals. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 12:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

If you go to NHL Stats page, and in the "TEAM COMPARISON REPORTS" box select "Goals against" in the "Report View" field, then select "regular" in the "regular/playoffs" field and of cource use 2006-07 season. You will see that MIN had just 1 empty net goal which is included in the 184 GA stat. Weird, huh. --Crzycheetah 18:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Empty net goals are counted, against the team. The Jennings criteria is the team(s) that allow the least amount of goals, at the end of the regular season, are award the trophy. The team present it to it's goaltender(s); something like that. Anyways ENs count, thus 191 is correct. I could be in error, of course. GoodDay 18:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry this is totally offtopic but I just had to say it! I work with the statistics for the SEL, during the game we record all the stats and game info for use on the internet (live game report) and also for direct output on television. Everything goes trough our computers. Last season which was the first for this new stats system, we had all of our crew (except two sitting in the penalty box/scorekeeper area) sitting together in the nosebleed section. We had trouble seeing the shoulder numbers and everything was too complicated then it should've been. This week we found out that we would get new seats but not beside each other anymore. Funny thing is that they couldn't get us seats in the normal seating are so one of our "stations" will be in a VIP-lounge/suite! --Krm500 22:46, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I believe it is related to shootout "goals". The NHL counts SOG's in the team standings, but not invidually. If ENG's aren't the cause of the discrepancy, SOG's very likely are. Resolute 23:13, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

That's what I thought it might be, because I remember reading somewhere that only winning Shootout goals are counted in the goals for/goals against totals. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 23:39, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Ottawa Senators & Ottawa Senators

Is there any official linkage between these two franchises? Ottawa Senators (original)-St. Louis Eagles and Ottawa Senators. Recent edits & discussions at Ottawa Senators/talk: Ottawa Senators, 1992-93 Ottawa Senators season and Prince of Wales Trophy/talk: Prince of Wales Trophy, have shown a continued schism on this topic. We need a 'clear & undisputed' consensus, to end this schism. GoodDay 18:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Does everyone 'have' to agree? I thought we were supposed to be neutral. I vote to continue to allow disagreement. Alaney2k 18:50, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

(Oops, left out a smiley) I vote to continue to allow disagreement. :-) Alaney2k 19:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Well in a way yes. You are allowed to have a differing opinion of course. But you should be following concensus on the issue. That is how we acheive neutrality. But pushing your WP:POINT you are not being neutral. --Djsasso 19:12, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, okay, let's start all over again. I feel like 'words are being put in my mouth'. What or who defines that 'official' linkage? Here are the links that I know of:

• one -- Firestone named his campaign 'Bring Back The Senators', this show intent
• two -- he named the streets of the development around the arena after former Senators hockey players, intent
• three -- he had a representative of past ownership as part of the campaign
• four -- he had a representative of past players as part of the campaign
• five -- he secured the name of the original club
• six -- he used the same colors for the new team
• seven -- both teams are professional men's teams in the NHL
• eight -- both teams represent Ottawa in the NHL, i.e., operating the 'Ottawa NHL franchise'
• nine -- upon play, the team raised the Stanley Cup banners (hoouring the old)
• ten -- upon play, a former player was present (Beverige) (passing the torch)
• eleven -- upon play, the president of the NHL presented a 'certificate of reinstatement' publicly in front of 10,449 witnesses (I don't dispute that it is in dispute, or even that it is PR)
• twelve -- Sens have rights to past club logos, evidenced by O on shoulder
• thirteen -- old Sens jersey had est. 1894 on shoulder
• fourteen -- retired a number of a player from the previous era
• fifteen -- two teams with same name in same league -it has to be explained-

After all that, I think there is a 'linkage', but maybe there is some technical point we are sticking on here. I think that people are saying that I am saying it is the same franchise, like the two eras are the same 'thing'. I am not sure of what they are accusing me of. It's the Ottawa NHL franchise. Like it's the McDonald's franchise for City X, it seems to be the same thing. The McDonald's could close and re-open years later. What does it mean? It's not the same organization running it, indisputably. I call it a different 'club' or 'team' but others use the word 'franchise'. I don't know if they ever 'folded' the original franchise after closing down in St. Louis. I am looking for info on the topic. Anyway, all of the above 15 points of the list need to be in a Sens article to be complete, IMHO. That's basically what I argue for. I think we can do that in a 'neutral' way. I don't understand this 'official' business, I think we have to be encyclopedic, stick to the facts. The above things occurred and are facts.Alaney2k 20:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I suggest, if those 'fifteen links' are to be viewed as 'undisputable' links, then the two Ottawa Senators pages should be merged. GoodDay 20:32, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Again we aren't disputing that they were linked for PR reasons. But what I think the issue is, is that you are putting undue weight on it in the article. Quite frankly it was perfect the way it was 6 months ago. It was very clear that they had the whole bring back the nhl campaign and what not. But now after the constant fighting and changing of each others edits, its become and bloated over grown mess. I am of the opinion that it should just be reverted back to before the edit wars occured. Some of the above facts are however, incorrect. The owning of the logo rights is not valid as the copyright on those long ago expired and it wasn't till they started using the logos again that they were recopyrighted which does not mean the two are linked. Just means they essentially picked up the logos free and clear. Most of the other points you have listed up there don't prove the two are linked either. They just go to show that the team is honouring the past of hockey in ottawa. And again all that stuff you want to show was already there before you started tinkering with it. What we are objecting to is your constantly adding more and more single words here and there trying to make it sound more and more like the two are the same team when they are not. --Djsasso 20:37, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

The NHL would step in and say they cannot use the old logo if it was inappropriate, no? Alaney2k 02:14, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

I was even content with the reinstatement certificate being briefly mentioned at Ottawa Senators weeks ago (we all were content), that's where it should have ended. GoodDay 20:42, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I was responding to the 'official linkage' question. Now I seem to have to defend my edits, too! I am not the only person editing the article. I don't know what 'undue weight' means. I added a lot of other things to the Sens article - about the financing, etc. So it is bigger. What is the issue there? I tried to organize it chronologically. I don't think it was better six months ago. I have tried to be consistent and 'positive' in the writing. I don't think I've tried to be 'rah-rah', just not negative when it seems to be unnecessary. There was lots of unsubstantiated stuff before, it's gone. I tried to use descriptive headings such as 'Martin' era, and added the info about the various GMs. I've added articles about Sexton and Gauthier. I think the expansion campaign was notable, though, in the context of how Ottawa won it despite others thinking they had no chance, and that it was underfunded, but somehow this got past the board. Alaney2k 21:01, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't mean the article itself was better. Just the history part when referring to the older franchise. --Djsasso 21:44, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I think the real concern, if I might guess, is the use of the word 'reinstated' when applied to the Sens. I respectfully submit that using the word 'new' to the current Sens is getting old. Thoughts? Alaney2k 21:01, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Again, briefly mentioning the 'reinstatement' as a PR move at Ottawa Senators is acceptable. GoodDay 21:07, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I usually just use the term "the current Ottawa Senators" that way there is no "reinstatement" or no "new". --Djsasso 21:38, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

On the undue weight aspect. That, I think is a debatable thing. But, what about moving the History section, or Expansion Campaign section after the on-ice history? Should we have a 'Founding' section, where this could be part of the article, yet less prominent? That's it for me today. I hope you guys don't run too 'wild' without me around. Alaney2k 22:06, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

So Al, are you now in agreement, no more pushing of 'linkage' between the Senators? GoodDay 13:10, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

I am not trying to revise 'history'. I am only trying to write 'well'. That's what it is. It is more informative to say 'Ottawa returned to the NHL' than to say 'the new Ottawa Sens started this year'. I do NOT want to be deceptive. Alaney2k 02:12, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

My two cents; as I've said in many a spot, the limit of acceptance of linkage would be a simple sentence that a "certificate of reinstatement" was given to the team ... provided it can be sourced, because I really am challenging this now. That's it. The NHL has made it plain that it considers the current team to be a separate franchise. The team's own records, standings and statistics make it plain that this is a separate franchise. Far too much time and talk have been spent on this heavily minority POV a single editor is pushing, and it is time for consensus (and the facts on the ground) to prevail.  RGTraynor  18:52, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

These are plainly separate franchises. How about trying to argue that the St. Louis Blues are a continuation of the old franchise (which I am not suggesting at all, but just saying someone could try that) since the old Sens moved to St. Louis where they folded after one season. The only source I can locate so far regarding a certificate is from this sentence: Although there is no direct tie to the original franchise, the modern era Senators were given a certificate of reinstatement by the NHL when the team joined the league as an expansion franchise in 1992. from TSN.CA's Ottawa's Cup Drive article 2007 -Pparazorback 19:13, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

There is no doubt in my mind that Firestone started a new club in '91. I have never disputed that. What I feel we must include somehow is that "Ottawa Senators" something was revived, brought back, whatever, because that was what was intended. Ottawa is back in the NHL. It's not like the Renegades. Anyway, I have a copy of the certificate. It is in the 'Backcheck' magazine. The first one the current Sens published. I will copy the text, but it's not handy right now (I'm out of town) Alaney2k 02:12, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

As for the NHL coming out and saying in a citable way that 'Ottawa did not return to the NHL', where is it? I would like to know what that is. At least out of curiosity. I know all about the Sens saying this is their 15th season, etc. That's not where this originated. This originated in how to write that Ottawa returned to the NHL without p****ing you folks off! I'll admit, I'm terrible at debating. Some things just seem right to me, and I can't see the problem with it? We still have to explain how there are two teams of the same name, the new owners wanted to bring back the old Senators, at least because of its valued history, but yet the owners let him have the name but somehow they are not related somehow. How do you write that in a way that you guys don't find disagreeable? As far as I know, Stein is not on record as saying the certificate was a lie. He is a lawyer, so who knows? Do you folks think it is stealing from the past, what? Trying to claim 11 Cups? Alaney2k 02:12, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Well I think you are missing the point. This article is about the NEW Ottawa Senators. Not about hockey in Ottawa in general. If that is what you are trying to write about then you want to probably have an article called Hockey in Ottawa. I think the issue we are having is that you are trying to load the article with even more information about the old senators than is already there. There was already 2/3rds of the history section about the old senators. We just don't get why you are trying to push more and more information about linking the two teams into an article where it doesn't belong. --Djsasso 05:55, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

It's not that way now. Where else would the expansion campaign go? The NEW team raised the banners. The NEW team named the streets. The NEW team retired the jersey. The NEW team had the 'Established 1894' on its jersey. The NEW team had the campaign. As far as I know, the other cities did not do anywhere as much work to get a franchise. Especially in the 90s when the NHL was trying to dig up owners all over the map. So, it's a differentiation and NOTABLE too. We just have to get a consensus where I don't go over 'the line in the sand' where it is written as a 'continuation of the franchise.' Maybe I don't like where the line is drawn, maybe a bit of leeway to use the words revived, for example would not hurt and would be informative. Alaney2k 16:27, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Simply mention 'reinstatement certificate' at Ottawa Senators (like it was weeks ago), pointing out it was a PR move. That's the only article where this certificate should be mentioned. PS- The consensus here seems to be - you've already gone over the line. GoodDay 16:44, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

So it comes down to the certificate. That's what irks you. If you have a citation as to the certificate's purpose, put it in. The banners, the expansion campaign, the retired number, the naming, the Gormans, the colors, that too? Unless you have a citation that it is only PR, then it is your unproven opinion. The paragraphs states the info about Total Hockey, etc. It mentions about the stats separately. In the article, the certificate is only mentioned in one sentence. I don't see the need for the cynicism, the negativity about this certificate. Why do you not apply that standard to Total Hockey, etc. Why doesn't that book mention about stealing Livingstone's players, or Jack Adams lying about Ted Lindsay, or Calder pocketing thousands, or the Norris's shaving of tickets, lying about the capacity of the stadiums? The league itself is the place to direct your cynicism. Alaney2k 22:53, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

It's not lying to say the league welcomed back Ottawa. Can we say that the president of the league welcomed Ottawa back to the league with a 'reinstatement certificate'? Is that 'over your line'? Alaney2k 22:53, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Welcoming back the City of Ottawa isn't a problem (for me); as for everyone else? GoodDay 23:48, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Keeping in mind of course, the St.Louis Blues article makes no mention of the NHL welcoming the City of St. Louis back into the NHL (after 32 years). GoodDay 00:03, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

If you want I can look into whether they got one? :-) Alaney2k 01:25, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Do as you like, but let's also wait and see how the others feel about adding Welcoming back the City of... throughout the various NHL team articles. Examples: Philadelphia Flyers, NHL welcomes back City of Philadelphia after 36 years; Pittsburgh Penguins, NHL welcomes back City of Pittsburgh after 37 years etc. Mind you these Welcoming back City of... additions would be better served by being added to their respective 'city articles'. GoodDay 13:48, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

The Senators were given a certificate, that's the difference. It is notable in those other teams' articles to mention that there was a previous NHL team, don't belittle that. Alaney2k 15:11, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Again, the certificate may be mentioned in the Ottawa Senators briefly (and as a PR stunt); anything more then that, would suggest an unbroken linkage between both NHL Senators franchises. GoodDay 15:20, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

The infobox states 1991 as the founding date. People can read that. This is from the NHL books. But the certificate is not mentioned in the NHL books. The references come from other sources. So, to say it is 'X' or it is 'Y' would have to be cited. The simple fact is that it was given. I've suggested that it welcomed back Ottawa to the NHL. That is an interpretation, but a minimal one. As I've said before, aim your cynicism elsewhere. It was not a cynical gesture by the league. And cynicism is inappropriate in a sport or entertainment article. It is a point of view. Alaney2k 16:21, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm trying to help you here, yet you're accusing me of cynicism. What gives? GoodDay 16:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, sometimes my writing comes across in the the wrong way, more harsh than I intended. I sometimes try to be more wordy, etc. I mean we should not reduce every gesture or action to be a self-serving act. I suggest that putting the words PR in reduce the sentence to mean the NHL did a cynical move. Yes, the NHL let Firestone in because he was willing to pay the $50 million, that was cynical, but Firestone did far more than other cities groups to convince the NHL. Such as the band and supporters in Florida. Finnigan. Resurrecting the name. It adds up to more than 'just a new team', so the certificate recognizes that. Alaney2k 17:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Certificate or no certificate, it's a new franchise/team/club etc. If you're going to mention Welcoming back City of Ottawa in Ottawa Senators, then you must add Welcoming back City of ... for the other team articles (where appliable). The Senators article shouldn't be given special treatment. GoodDay 18:22, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

The club has Stanley Cup banners. The club retired a sweater at the first game. Do the other 'revived cities' have similar things? Alaney2k 20:34, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

The arena has banners, not the team. As far as sweaters I do believe they are looking at that in a similar fashion. A good example of this is the Hartford Wolfpack of the AHL still has all the retired banners (tho not cups obviously) and numbers of the former Hartford Whalers and I don't think you would try and argue they are the same teams even though the Wolfpack raised those banners. So yes, this is common. --Djsasso 21:52, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Agreed: (1) No matter the scraps of cloth hanging from the rafters -- and that the Springfield Indians' banners still hang from the rafters in the Springfield Civic Center doesn't mean that the AHL Springfield Falcons get to claim they've won seven Calder Cups -- neither the NHL nor the current Senators credit the current team with so much as a single Cup win. (2) Sports teams can retire whatever numbers they want for whatever reason they want; come to that, a great many cities have #99 retired when no player with that number ever suited up for them.  RGTraynor  09:21, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

So Al, are you now in agreement? No more pushing of 'linkage' between the two Senators teams? GoodDay 15:40, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I am not the one who raised the banners. I don't know who raised the Springfield banners. But I can speak in a neutral manner that 'the Senators raised the Stanley Cup banners'. And that is in the Sens article. The Sens retired Finnigan's jersey number. The Sens 'received a reinstatement certificate from ...' It's not original research, or extrapolating. You guys think it gives undue weight unless it's out completely, I think. Alaney2k 18:01, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Al, since the NHL does not officially recognize the Ottawa Senators (original) and the Ottawa Senators as the same franchises, then neither should we. The certificate and the number retirement were PR moves by the new club and the NHL. This is not an article about hockey clubs in Ottawa, but about the current club that resides there. Any attempts at trying to tie the two together here are incorrect. The consensus here is that these are separate clubs. -Pparazorback 20:47, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

(Another one who puts words in my mouth :-) ) I have always said they were separate clubs. Over and over. But when you have two teams with the same name in the same league etc. etc. etc., you don't ignore reality either. You don't omit the following: The new Sens raised the banners, the new Sens revived the name, the new Sens retired the number, the new Sens named the streets, the new Sens used the shoulder patches. As the article states, the club 'honours' its connection with the past. That is what I want to make sure is not removed. Alaney2k 21:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Once again, I've had to change some of the section headers at Ottawa Senators (because they suggested linkage). I can't speak for everyone, but this is getting annoying. GoodDay 21:35, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

You and me both. Alaney2k 22:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Back in the NHL (and similar headings) belong on a History of the NHL in Ottawa article. GoodDay 21:35, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

It's out. Alaney2k 21:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

The new Sens did all of those as PR moves with the city and it's fans. Other than these PR moves, there is absolutely NO linkage. On one hand you keep trying to tell us that you agree that they are separate clubs, then on the other hand you say that since they have the same name and play in the same city that they must be the same club in some way. It is like saying that John Smith who was born in 1884 who was an avid fan of the Ottawa Senators and John Smith born in 1991 who is currently an avid fan on the Ottawa Senators must be linked together somehow because they are both Sens fans in Ottawa. To prove your point you are showing that it must be because the NHL gave the newborn John Smith a certificate of reinstatement as a fan when he was born. Nevermind the fact that there is no actual linkage to either family tree whatsoever.

In my opinion, I don't think anyone is opposed to mentioning that ties from the old Sens club were used to help bring an expansion franchise back into Ottawa. But it has to be clear that these were done as PR Moves, and your edits have to stop morphing the article into making the reader seem that they are the same team because that is what is happening. -Pparazorback 21:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

It is somewhat unique. It didn't stop with the 'getting' of the franchise. It has been a constant theme ever since. They regularly put out press releases with comparisons between the two eras. They recently put the old logo on their jerseys. So it is not just me. Other cities are just not as involved. It was a proud era. I am not trying to drive everyone crazy, but the fact that Ottawa was back in the NHL was notable. Ottawans are aware of the Silver Seven. Hockey is big in Ottawa with the 67s and Olympique and Jr. Sens and numerous other teams. That is why the banners, streets, restaurants etc. were done. To meet the expectations of the fans. A couple hundred fans travelled to Palm Beach for the '91 NHL meeting. No other city did that. Alaney2k 22:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I also had to make corrections at Ottawa Senators (senior hockey); it's getting difficult to keep up & correct the mistakes. GoodDay 22:22, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I know what you mean, it's not 'becomeing' the St. Louis Eagles, it's 'becoming the St. Louis Eagles.' Alaney2k 22:25, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

So Al, are you now in agreement? no more pushing 'linkage' on the various Senators pages? You've been shown over, over and over again consensus is against you. GoodDay 22:29, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I think that was a significant 'peace offering' to suggest a 'History of NHL in Ottawa' article. I hope it means you think there is a place in Wikipedia for the banners, etc. I do feel like we are stalking each other, and that's not fun for either of us. Please accept my apology about that. You and I have been able to work out differences on other pages, I hope we can on this issue. I think what you've edited on the Sens page is good. I want the facts to remain. I am happy with reducing the mentions of the 'stuff' to the minimum because it's about the club, not the history, as long as we don't go too far and say it was pure PR. It's not and the return of the NHL to Ottawa is I think, more notable than to other cities, e.g. Atlanta. No offense intended to Atlantans. :-) So, until we find another place to put the 'campaign' and 'honouring' please tolerate it on the Sens page. Alaney2k 22:41, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Personal opinon- Throw in facts about it being PR moves and I'm content. Wikipedian opinon- You really should follow the overwelhming consensus; thought I'm 'hot headed' at times, I'm not one to 'lowering the boom' (some may find your edits as being 'tendentive' in nature). In other words, it's not entirely up to me or you. GoodDay 22:50, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Tendentive. Never heard of it. Alaney2k 23:04, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

The only appropriate article that would fit in current wiki standards (in that they exist for other cities) would be Hockey in Ottawa. Which you could write about all of these things and all other things relating to hockey in Ottawa. That being said you still couldn't try and make it look like they are the same clubs. And again I think we all pretty much still disagree with you that it was anything more than a PR move. Just for the record. --Djsasso 22:52, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

But again none of those things really have to do with the team itself and has more to do with hockey in the city of Ottawa. There is a point where that isn't relevant to the article. The article is about the team, not about the various PR things it tries to do. The reason why the banners and certificate note mentioning is because its part of the creation of the team. But the street names etc etc really don't belong in this article. --Djsasso 22:50, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, I'm willing to work on that other article. Someone previously suggested to include everything about Hockey in Ottawa, that would be too much. But we could link to the various. I think it would be more appropriately titled "History of Hockey in Ottawa". About the street names, it's a notable event to name a street after someone or something, at least in many cases. Alaney2k 23:04, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

An article about the History of hockey in Ottawa would probably be appropriate. You could put a lot of information that you want told about hockey in Ottawa that way. To avoid WP:SYNTH I would suggest wiki-linking other readily available history from the different various articles rather than copying / pasting into a new article. -Pparazorback 23:25, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

The reason I named it Hockey in Ottawa is that is naming standard that all sports use for articles of this nature. A non-hockey example, tho not necessarily a well written article is Baseball in Edmonton. But yes that is a decent idea as Pparazorback mentioned...just don't do the cut and past like that other article which was deleted. --Djsasso 00:25, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

You are generous with that article. :-) Alaney2k 00:39, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm maybe it should have been Ice hockey in Ottawa now that I think about it. I can't decide. What does everyone else think. We seem to have a standard of calling it Ice Hockey in most places, however we do have other examples like Category:Hockey in Calgary. --Djsasso 05:39, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

I'd go with Hockey in Ottawa. GoodDay 14:06, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Stanley Cup Rings On Current Roster

Idea: To create a reliable list of players on each team that currently hold a Stanley Cup Ring.

I had already started on some teams, although some articles are locked to visitors like myself (ie Toronto), and other members have reversed my edits. Upon my last edit I was told to consult you guys "before making any mass alerting to the teams' article format." So I thought alright, fair enough, and I think its a worth while idea. It gives you an interesting perspective on the team, and gives an in depth look at the notable players on the team. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.39.163.121 (talk) 19:13, September 24, 2007

• Oppose: Players move around so much these days, I don't think it's worth it. Besides, it's not an official statistic/record or anything. -- Gmatsuda 02:50, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose: as per above, its neat, but its not really encyclopedic and the rosters do not contain any other statistical information. Its just not pertinent. Croat Canuck Say hello or just talk 03:00, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose: per all the above reasons. --Djsasso 04:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose: per all the above reasons. -- GoodDay 13:23, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

• The rings are also given out to non-players, and players who didn't play in the finals. So there are problems with it. Is everyone opposed to the idea of stanley cup winners on a roster listed? That may fit with the intent. The roster table could have a column or defined mark for previous Stanley Cup wins. You could put an asterisk or mark next to a player's name in the roster table. Or even a Cup icon. Would that be useful? Alaney2k 14:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

• For all the reasons stated above, no, it would not be useful or encyclopedic. -- Gmatsuda 14:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose. It would be a wide change of limited value for both editors and users/readers. Category:Stanley Cup champions already exists for individuals. A list or category of champions currently active might be a better first step...but maintenance would still be an issue. Canuckle 18:47, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose: per above. Beyond that, I contest that having been on a Stanley Cup-winning team makes a player "notable" by that fact alone. The rings handed to superstars aren't any more valid than those handed to fourth-line scrubs with three shifts a game.  RGTraynor  05:59, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

The notability guidelines for Sport have any player who played for the NHL as qualifying as 'notable'. Alaney2k 13:57, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

For the purposes of meeting the WP:BIO criteria for articles about them, yes.  RGTraynor  08:21, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

No offense intended, but there is an obvious consensus here, isn't there? -- Gmatsuda 08:30, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes I would imagine there is... Croat Canuck Say hello or just talk 02:51, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Status of players on Current Rosters

Can we now begin adding those IR, Injured, Suspended tags to 'current rosters' now; or should we wait 'til the reg seasons begins (I know, I'm getting anxious). GoodDay 18:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Do you actually have a reliable source for players on the injured reserve list? If so, then I think it would be worth adding. If not, then it doesn't belong. I think this tag was too liberally in the past. Any time a player missed a game, they were tagged with IR. Often, it wasn't verifiable, mainly because in certain situations it was not true. -- JamesTeterenko 18:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I would probably vote against using it at all, but I wouldn't complain if others wanted it. --Djsasso 18:46, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

If the 'team websites' have such listing, then it's alright? I agree with the short term injury tag (players missing a few games); we should only tag the IR cases (backed by the websites). For example Sullivan of the Preds & Taylor of the Lightning, their absences should be noted. GoodDay 18:57, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I just checked the Predators and Lightning websites. Neither Sullivan nor Taylor are marked as being on the IR. I'd be okay with flagging it in the roster page if you could find a good source, and I would be comfortable if it was the team website or press release. I just don't believe that any team has actually placed someone on the IR yet. -- JamesTeterenko 19:03, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah if it can be backed up by something like the team website I am more than ok with it. It's the day to day ones that don't actually go on the IR that I have more of an issue with. --Djsasso 19:24, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

About the rosters, what about sportsline or espn as 'reliable sources'? Alaney2k 19:32, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't be a problem. PS- I've started adding IR tags (done Ducks & Thrashers articles), will gradually finish them over next few days. If anyone wants to do them, be my guest. GoodDay 19:45, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I started doing some of these and realized that it would probably be best to wait until the season starts. My reasoning on this became apparent when I noticed that in a lot of articles, the rosters are no where near complete due to some team sites listing all the players who are on the preseason roster and some do not. This would require a lot of roster edits that can wait just one more week before opening rosters are announced for each team. -Pparazorback 22:00, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Good point, some of these websites' rosters haven't been updated for quite awhile. Sorry guys, I let my anxiousness for the season to start overtake my judgment. PS- I'm still chewing my fingernails over who the Thrahsers, Sabres (please Lindy, don't rotate them), Blackhawks, Oilers, Kings, Wild (for October), Flyers and Blues will name as their respective captains. GoodDay 22:07, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

GoodDay: Elitserien started this monday with an extremely fast phased game between my favorite team Frölunda HC and "local" rival HV71. Game ended in a 6-5 loss for us but the wait was finally over! I promise you I was a nerve wreck the week prior to the start. Now I'm looking forward to thursdays home premier and then for the NHL premier! Go Hockey! --Krm500 00:23, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

To the first point in this section, I don't think we should include "injured" tags on players who not put on IR because it doesn't affect the status of the roster, like being able to add an extra player, and often those injuries are day-to-day which means the player might play in the next game anyway. bmitchelf•T•F 03:21, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

ECHL (PHX Roadrunners) page update

Hey there, I have a page that desperately needs to be updated. I have gone on there litterally everyday since August and updated everything. The page was classiffied as Start-class...However, I myself updated it to B-class. If I was wrong in doing this sorry, I will let the right people do the rating. However I feel it is AT LEAST a B-class article. I have gotten many positive reactions from webmasters, and it just needs to be updated to a more respective level. The page is the Phoenix Roadrunners. If anyone would like to get on that it would be appreciated. Thanks much Jefe1986 El Jefe 20:01, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

You are able to change articles up to B class on your own, however, since you seem to have done the majority of the work on it. It is usually best to let someone else do that so its good to see you posting here. I've been looking it over and might be willing to make it a B. Great use of inline citations, you might want to get some general references down at the botton. Anything higher than a B you would have to take to the respective nominating areas. --Djsasso 20:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I would also fix up your table. Take a look at one of the NHL teams and use that sort of table for the roster. Other than that great work. --Djsasso 20:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Nice article, but you might want to correct your inline citations. See Template:Cite web for the correct use of links in inline citations. --Krm500 22:52, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

I quickly threw in the ref tags, but yes they still need to be fixed more. I never had the time to add the rest of the standards. --Djsasso 22:53, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Where would I go for the proper gradings? I mean, within reason. I am not going to go to whoever I need to see just yet, but it is helpful to know where once I feel its up to date. Thanks guys, really helpful. I am so new to this that I am copying and pasting like crazy haha. Its good to have people that "get it". Jefe1986 El Jefe 16:46, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Well basically most articles go to each level in steps. And as your article gets approved for each step it gets better towards the next level. You can try jumping right to the top but I wouldn't recommend it. The next step I would probably try for is Good Article status. That link will explain Good Articles to you and there is a link on it to the Nomination process. At which point peers who have not worked on the page will give recommendations and their opinions on if it qualifies yet. At which point you or whoever can fix anything necessary to try and guarantee that it will be approved. Once you get that status then you could probably try for Featured status but I would definately go through the Good Article process first. --Djsasso 17:19, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

NHL player salaries

I've created a new NHL article, NHL player salaries, based on the French "fr:Salaires des joueurs de la LNH". It could use some work, especially in fleshing out some text. Perhaps each season's section could have a brief overview. For example, explaining the three-fold increase in the top salary between the 1994-95 season and the 1996-97 season.

(Cross-posted to WikiProject National Hockey League) − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 05:28, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Newletter

How about a second one? I think there's enough news for a second issue. Maxim_(talk) 14:29, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Yup its fine by me. Just might want to be carefull with the coding on it this time. It broke alot of peoples talk pages cause an end tag was missing at one point. --Djsasso 15:01, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

The issues are all fixed, I think. :) And User:Animum made a bot error, so out of the three major glitches that happened last time, I'll concede that I'm directly responsible for two out of three. Maxim_(talk) 15:18, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

The bot's doing its job right now. How's the newsletter this time? Maxim_(talk) 01:48, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

I haven't gotten it yet... -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 02:15, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

First glance before reading it I notice the heading of the post seems to have changed from "WikiProject Ice Hockey Month Year Newsletter" to just "WikiProject Ice Hockey newsletter". Details details... --Bamsefar75 02:28, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Blame the bot and the operator. :D Maxim_(talk) 18:56, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Good job again, Maxim. You rock for doing this. Skudrafan1 21:42, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Skudrafan1. :D Maxim_(talk) 21:46, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

2007-08 NHL season ready to start

Well guys I dunno about all you, but I'm all hyped up and ready to start another NHL season, which by the way gets under way in a little more than 12 hours. Anyways, from here on in again we got to keep a keen eye on a lot of things again, including the constant statistical updates that are unwarranted in some places (i.e., Sidney Crosby's stats getting updated 119 times this season, or Hal Gill's stats getting updated mid-season and then not getting updated again until 2 years from now). I've noticed both of those scenarios happening a lot over the past few years, and this summer I updated stats that hadn't been updated since December 2005! Anyways, just keep an eye out, and enjoy the start of the season... by the way it will end with the Sharks beating the Rangers in the Cup Final, hate to spoil it for you. Go Leafs Go! Croat Canuck Say hello or just talk 03:56, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

To test a theory, I put a line in for 2007-08 on Sidney Crosby's article, marking it as Season in progress. Not sure if it will help on the player articles, but I noticed that doing this on the team articles seemed to eliminate this problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Resolute (talk • contribs) 04:51, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey, Resolute... is there some way we can use a similar theory to get people to write events from this season in the individual season articles instead of on the main team pages? You know, for example, how do you think we can go about directing editors to 2007-08 Buffalo Sabres season instead of continually adding to Buffalo Sabres#2007-08? The little "Main article:2007-08 Buffalo Sabres season" blurb at the top of the section didn't seem to do the job too well last season. Skudrafan1 14:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Leafs Suck. Go Sens Go!! Maxim_(talk) 13:14, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Let's go, Buff-a-lo! Now we just need a Bruins fan and a Canadiens fan for an all-out Northeast Division rumble. :) Skudrafan1 13:23, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

We already have a hater... me! Maxim_(talk) 13:41, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Concerning the player stats updates during the season, be prepared. Those anon editors (mainly the drive-by ones) will be tough to control. I suggested 'monthly updates' as the most orderly. GoodDay 14:09, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

What about a bot that'll do the work? Maxim_(talk) 14:41, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Bot of course, that would do the trick. GoodDay 15:08, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Team season articles

Skudrafan - I suppose the easiest way is to simply move the info over manually. There are only 30 teams, as opposed to 750 players, so the burden isn't nearly as great. Personally, I would just as soon delete any section on an individual season entirely. The history section of team articles should, in my opinion, be era based, not season based. Not to mention that random player signings certainly are not all that relevant in the big picture. Resolute 15:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

OK. Let's keep up on that this season. I think I'm up for it. You? :) Skudrafan1 15:03, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Hopefully. We should be able to keep ahead of the recentism. Resolute 17:11, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Featured Topic Drive tables

I'd just like to know why all the award/trophy pages have more compressed tables than before. I believe there is no benefit or improvemnt to them. --Hasek is the best 12:54, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

It helps to get all the information on one screen. The idea is that less scrolling is always the prefered version. I don't know about the awards pages specifically but thats the reason it was switched for career statistics of players. --Djsasso 18:58, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

But don't the tables compress when the stats can't fit into one screen? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hasek is the best (talk • contribs) 20:12, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh you mean compressing the width. In that case its probably a whitespace issue as less whitespace is preferable. Tables look horrible when there is a tonne of whitespace in the cells. Cells should only ever be as long as the longest entry. --Djsasso 21:05, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Meh, I think width makes organization better, like if you look at goalies' stats such as Jose Theodore's, his stats are so scrunched (if I didn't add spacing) it's tough to read, so if screen displays fit the chats to one screen, then it won't make much of a difference. Or if you were talking about the white, there are 3 shades of grey to use; one medium-grey (ex. Mike Fisher's in this diff), a pinkish color and one light and one dark for totals--Hasek is the best 22:21, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok you have me confused now. Are we talking about the Award Tables or stats now....When I say whitespace I mean blank space where there is no text. You also have to remember that not everyone has as wide as screen as you might have. To be honest I prefer to have them shrunk right down to 0% but I accepted 75% when this was discussed a few months back as a compromise. 95% is way to much. --Djsasso 00:43, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

The award tables. Now to make this short, since 800x600 display is the lowest display on a computer, in full screen, 100% will still make the charts organized as much as they are now. --Hasek is the best 01:26, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

You're all invited

There's a discussion at List of family relations in the National Hockey League, concerning Manon Rheaume. Your opinons would be appreciated. GoodDay 18:30, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Team championship templates, again

{{Ducks 2007 Stanley Cup Team}}

Per the previous discussions, I'll be listing this at WP:TFD. Resolute 15:08, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Divisional Standings Templates

Could templates for divisional standings be made instead of having a copy of on each season article page? This idea has been used by WP:BASEBALL and proved to be easier to maintain. If I don't see any opposition I'll make them up. --Michael Greiner 14:45, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

That isn't a bad idea. Six updates a night rather than 31 (including 2007-08 NHL season). Substitute them when the season is over, and reuse for next year. Resolute 15:27, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

You've sold me on this idea. GoodDay 16:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that's a great idea. I was trying to work on this now, it's simple, but I'd like to add a little feature that is complicating the thing because I'm no template expert, I just know the basics. That is, I'd like to have that bgcolor="#CCFFCC" to highlight the team of the article so the template would be something like {{NW stadings|team=avalanche}} and the Colorado Avalanche would be highlighted as they already are in their season article. If anyone knows how to do this...--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 17:31, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I am not sure about highlighting, but I can get the team names bolded. (By linking to season articles) I'll start on the Atlantic division first, then we'll go on from there. --Michael Greiner 17:42, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I got it working. I have it on my sandbox done for Northwest. I'll do Western Conference and you'll see how the "code" works and then we could adapt this to every division.--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 17:49, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

See it working here --Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 17:52, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I see. I added that code and finished the Atlantic Division standings. I'm wondering about the template names, I used the form from WP:Baseball making Template:2007-08 Atlantic Division standings. --Michael Greiner 18:00, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Oops, I forgot to add the -08. However, I'd add NHL there because the NHL and the NBA have equal names in most divisions.--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 18:05, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I'll add NHL to the Atlantic. --Michael Greiner 18:07, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Those I've done were moved and every link was corrected. I'm going to do Central now.--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 18:20, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Our job is done. Good work, Michael, you just made it a lot easier to update the standings. Now that it is so simple, maybe we should have Conference standing tables as they are very important too, to see if a team is going to the playoffs or not.--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 19:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking about creating those later in the season (after the All-Star game-ish) since it is way too early for them now. --Michael Greiner 19:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

OK, I agree.--Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 19:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Looks great! When you are done with the NHL divisions could you possibly do one for Elitserien? I want it for the the Frölunda season article and also for a SEL 07-08 season since I'm thinking of creating it. --Krm500 19:03, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

This is really simple, but I can lend you a hand if you tell me what you need. :-) --Serte ^{[ Talk · Contrib ]} 19:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

A SEL season template could also include the datestamp, since all 12 teams are in the same division. --Bamsefar75 20:07, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I've made a working template on User:Bamsefar75/SandboxSELst for Elitserien. Test it on 2007-08 Frölunda HC season using {{User:Bamsefar75/SandboxSELst|team=FHC}}. Feel free to move or copy it into Template:2007-08 Elitserien standings. --Bamsefar75 20:58, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Looks great! --Krm500 01:32, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Now we just need a script (or something) to do painless updates of it. :) Further talk perhaps due for the task force...--Bamsefar75 22:40, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Coaching career tables

For coaching career tables, how about using the same player stat table? I have the layout here:

				Regular Season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		G	Record	W%	Pts	Finish		G	Record	W%	Pts	Result

Using wikitables don't look too well with stats. --Hasek is the best 02:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Personally I prefer something like on Doug Bentley, but there seems to be a standard on many of the more prominent coaches like Scotty Bowman and Marc Crawford which I must admit does look better. --Djsasso 04:24, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Well if they only have initials such as VAN they should change the standard to the full name like player articles. And Doug Bentley's is okay, the format is basically the same. But I don't see how coaching tables are different; after all, I think all hockey articles should have the same table and other sports such as baseball have another. And somebody should at least set any standard because using three different types of possible tables is messy. Here they are:

1. Guy Carbonneau's

2. The player tables

3. Marc Crawford's --Hasek is the best 20:22, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I think its because different things are important for coaches than for players which is why the tables will look different. Personally it doesn't matter to me if the names are in full or in short. I was just showing you the examples I have seen. Oh and option 1 and 3 are the same table minus some highlighting. Personally I would go with these tables. And there is no reason why every sport has to have their tables done differently. In fact I would push for the opposite and would like to see similar tables across all the sports. (The column meanings will be different of course). --Djsasso 20:35, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

It would be preferred and better off to have same charts, though. So if a consensus is made, a section for coach tables should be made under the player page format. --Hasek is the best 22:32, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Red Alert

There's a persistant vandal at List of National Hockey League statistical leaders, he/she's been continually adding & removing the American flag from Shanahan name. GoodDay 20:48, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Is there a reason why we are using multiple flags for some players? Ideally, I'd rather we just used the nationality they identified with/played internationally with. i.e.: Brett Hull is American. Resolute 21:11, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Personally that is what I would like to see, but since some players have sourced nationalities that are different than the one they are identified with it becomes an issue. --Djsasso 21:15, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

"Interim" captains

In the Los Angeles Kings article, the "interim" label has been added to Luc Robitaille's 1992-93 captaincy of the Kings. Yes, we all know he was, for all intents and purposes, an interim captain, serving while Wayne Gretzky was out with his herniated thoracic disc. However, in the official publications that matter (Kings Media Guide and the NHL Official Guide and Record Book), Robitaille is recognized as the tenth captain in the Kings' history, not as an interim captain.

So the question is: Do we retain the "interim" label, or go by the official designation? Methinks the latter is the best option since we would be providing accurate information, according to the NHL and the Kings. Thoughts? -- Gmatsuda 18:00, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

The reason for adding 'interim' to those players who wore their teams C during the regular captain's long-term absense, was so unfamiliar readers wouldn't think it was a co-captaincy situation. In the Kings example - Gretz was never stripped of the captaincy, during his 1992-93 half-season absence. It's not as though we removed Robitaille from the list. GoodDay 18:37, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I understand. My issue with this is that an argument could be made that the Kings named Robitaille as their official captain and then when Gretzky returned, named him as captain again. The point is, we don't know exactly how it all went down, so we should go by what the official sources say instead of coming up with our own interpretation. I guess an argument could also be made that adding "interim" may also be a POV issue, although I'm not making that claim. -- Gmatsuda 18:43, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

If it's decided to remove interim, then that choice should effect all NHL team articles (not just the Kings). PS- Gretz wasn't renamed captain upon his return, he was already the captain. Lucky Luc merely resumed his role as an alternate captain. GoodDay 18:50, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

We don't actually know what the Kings did with this. It was never officially announced by the Kings, nor is this indicated in any official publication. We all can be pretty sure that was the case, but we don't KNOW for sure. This is why I believe we need to go by what the official publications state. After all, that meets the "verfiable" criterion. -- Gmatsuda 19:31, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I thought the interim tag was only for captains that weren't listed as official captains by the NHL in their guide books or team pages, short-term captains for example. Ones that were not actually considered true captains. That being said I wasn't involved in these discussions before so I could be wrong. -Djsasso 19:26, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

If we're to remove those tags, that includes restructing of the lists and succession boxes on the individual pages. Example - LaFontaine's Sabres tenure 1992-97, would become 1992-93, 1994-97 (due to Mogilny's filling in). GoodDay 19:39, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

In cases like this you would usually just make a second userbox for the second time period. Just like when someone wins an award twice. -Djsasso 19:42, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

It's alot of extra work, which isn't really neccessary IMHO. Let's wait a day and see how everyone feels. If the later (no interims) is still preferred over the former (yes interims), then I'll personally remove them and make other appropiate edits (at team & individual articles). It's more important to me, that the articles are consistant with each other. Also, I've got the time. GoodDay 19:48, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I strongly believe that we shouldn't be using our own interpretation of the facts, which does not meet WP:VERIFY, IMHO. We should be going by whatever is in the official publications of the NHL and their teams. -- Gmatsuda 19:53, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Those other teams official publications show their interims as captains (just like the Kings with Robitaille). I'll make the changes tommorrow, if that's what the Project wants, honestly. GoodDay 20:02, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

On the team pages, it would be safe and wise to add a footnote to explain "interim" captains that filled in for a captain who was out due to a long-term injury. I don't see why the succession boxes on player pages would have to be changed; that player was still the official captain, along with the other guy. The succession box on Robitaille's page (as an example) can say he was flanked by Gretzky, and that Robitaille filled in due to injury. bmitchelf•T•F 21:42, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Concerning the indiviual succession boxes, I was thinking of just reverting my recent edits (removing the 'interim' word), while keeping the fact in place, that the injured captains were still the captain (whil another player filled in). In fact, I could do the changes on the team articles now (instead of waiting 'til tommorrow), if that's acceptable. It'll give me something to do. GoodDay 22:04, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

OK folks, I've fixed up the team pages & individual pages. GoodDay 22:52, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

WP:HOCKEY policy changes

Hockey seasons back, and so am I. So, to bring me up to date quickly rather than wasting time, have there been any policy changes at all in WikiProject Ice Hockey since last season ended? Including things like how season articles are displayed, the flags next to players names, and everything else.....including the dreaded diacritics discussions. But, just to be clear, I do not want this to become a debate about diacritics....I just want to be up-to-date about everything. Bsroiaadn^{Let's Go Devils!} 04:54, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

The diacritics discussions have ended. Diacritics are allowed on all non-NHL related articles and all NHL player articles. As for NHL team articles? they're are restricted to the current roster section's Birthplaces. Diacritics are omitted from rest of NHL related articles (list of statistic leaders, list of captains, trophy winners, etc). GoodDay 13:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

So on NHL team pages, diacritics are only allowed in the names of birthplaces, but are not allowed on any other NHL-related (exlcuding player pages) articles in any way shape or form. And they are allowed on all non-NHL related articles. Ok, I'm glad the discussions are finally over. Thanks GoodDay. Bsroiaadn^{Let's Go Devils!} 02:40, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

NHL standings are now in templates instead of individual pages. Other leagues are pending. --Michael Greiner 23:12, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

2007-08 'Team' season pages

Would it be alright to add city edits to these articles? At here we open with 31st season of NHL in Ottawa. We could also have, 45th season of NHL in Pittsburgh at here for example. Or #season of NHL in Montreal at here. What say you all? GoodDay 15:22, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Sure. I think it makes the articles more informative. Montreal definitely. I don't know about Pittsburgh. Colorado yes. Atlanta yes. Vancouver yes. Alaney2k 15:37, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I don't see the use in "...in city" edits. No offence, Alaney, but I see this simply as a further attempt to pass two separate franchises off as one. Ultimately, these articles are about the teams, not the cities. Resolute 15:41, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't believe that it adds enough value to warrant the clutter that it causes. It is confusing unless you know the history of the NHL in the city. Leave the history to the main team pages and related history pages. You don't have to mention the original Senators team every time you mention the current Senators team. How far would this go? Would you start saying x-years of professional hockey for cities that had WHA or other such franchises? -- JamesTeterenko 15:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Resolute and James that it doesn't really add enough to make it worth while. And if anything it adds a bit of useless trivia on an article thats about a specific teams season. --Djsasso 16:16, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Intially, I liked the in city idea. However, you guys have raised a good argument against it. These articles indeed are about the teams only not the cities. Excuse my over-reactions. GoodDay 16:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Sheesh. It doesn't mention the original Senators. It was a similar sentence to the 2007-08 Vancouver Canucks season leading paragraph. I'll change that one to match. Alaney2k 17:42, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I notice that GoodDay 'suspiciously' bailed out quickly. Hmm. Anyway, I think that a lot of the teams require different ways of stating their season number. Several teams have previous histories. It is the Avalanche's 12th season, or whatever of the franchise. So I don't see the cluttering/maintenance issue here. It's got to be done anyway. Unless you leave out the number completely. Alaney2k 18:52, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Well that is an option, however, as was stated to you in the past. We consider the Avalanche and the Nordiques one and the same so we would use the number of seasons going back to 1979. --Djsasso 19:09, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

If you were to do that, then I would suggest that it becomes seasons going back to '72. There is 'continuity' going back that far. You cannot say this is the 35th season of the Avalanche, though. You can say 12th of the Avalanche without confusing anyone. If you add 35th of the franchise, then that brings up the can of worms you don't want for the Sens page. And if you say 12th season of NHL hockey in Denver, well that isn't correct, so I suggest we go with the names according to the articles we have defined. 98th for Canadiens, 90th in the NHL is about as far as it should go, then. Alaney2k 19:36, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually I disagree, you can say this is the 35th of the Avalanche. All that happened was a name change. I think this is the place where you ran into trouble with all the Senators stuff. Was that that the two Senators were completely distinct. The Avalanche and Nordiques were just a name change and location change. I personally say just leave them how they are now and don't put the city names in and leave it at that. --Djsasso 19:41, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh I don't dispute that. What I am talking about is the sentence in the leading paragaph of these seasons pages. So that it is simple and indisputable. It's the 12th season of the 'Avalanche' club/name/play in Denver. Most of the seasons pages had text like XXXth season of NHL hockey in XXX city. So I added a sentence like that to the Sens page. And GoodDay objected, saying it was a 'linkage'. And that's how it got to this page. And now I'm fixing up those LP sentences to take out city references and be consistent so we don't have to discuss it again. Alaney2k 19:52, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I wunder if similar disputes are occuring at the MLB articles concerning the Texas Rangers past and Minnesota Twins past (they were different Washington Senators teams). Just curious, that's all. GoodDay 20:00, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I thought the objection was to the fact that there was more than 15 years listed for the Senators. Maybe I am missing the boat on the arguement...ie you had included the previous years in the number of years the senators had been in the NHL. --Djsasso 20:01, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

It said that it was 'the 31st season of NHL hockey in Ottawa, 15th of the current Senators'. It's unnecessary, but it was like those other pages. It's a bit of trivia, that's all. It's okay to let it go. But I reverted an edit GoodDay did that took it out, because I said it was like the other teams. And it ended up here. Some of these other seasons pages are flat out wrong. The Flyers page said the 41st season of NHL hockey in Philly. I changed it to Flyers' 41st season. Alaney2k 20:14, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I noticed that GoodDay 'sucpiciously' bailed out quickly. Now was that fair? Was that assuming good faith? What will it take to straighten this guy out? GoodDay 19:29, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Teasing. Let it go ... :-) Sometime I don't put the smileys on, that's all. Alaney2k 19:36, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

The teams that've only been in the NHL, don't need NHL mentioned in the opening. What about the former WHA teams, though. The Oilers are alright, but whatabout the Avalanche, Coyotes and Hurricanes?GoodDay 20:39, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

For the Flames, for 1980-81 Calgary Flames season, I noted it as being the first season in Calgary, and ninth for the franchise. Resolute 20:57, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

FWIW, The statement "The foo' season is the xth National Hockey League season in City" was designed to link both the NHL, adn the city that the team plays in for context. Stating which season the team is in also is useful, I think. For instance, this edit I would consider to be removing team info, not city info. It is useful to know that this is the 81st year for the Red Wings. It is not useful to know that Pittsburgh or Ottawa or St. Louis has had more than one team. Resolute 20:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Just to clarify, I think it is appropriate to mention that this is the 40th season for the Pittsburgh Penguins. I do not think it is appropriate to note that this is the 45th season of NHL hockey in Pittsburgh. Resolute 20:59, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

There definitely needs to be a link to the National Hockey League somewhere in the introductory paragraphs to these articles. The first sentence is the place to do it. Skudrafan1 21:01, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I've made some changes to the 'relocated' teams season pages. If anyone can improve them Or wish to revert them, be my guest. GoodDay 21:11, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Added and re-added NHL to some of those pages opeing paragraphss. Near exhausted, could somebody else complete the task? GoodDay 21:20, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Alaney and I, have completed the task. Now for myself, is there a doctor in the Project? GoodDay 22:06, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

What about putting NHL next to the team name in the NHLTeamSeason template, or better yet, though I don't know how it is done is to put a league logo icon next to the team name (with a link to the NHL, not to the image). Because 'in the NHL' kind of hints that a team existed 'out' of the NHL. Alaney2k 14:10, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I'll go for that, makes sense to me. GoodDay 14:41, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't think an image should be used since it's non-free. I remember there was a hockey-related chart somewhere on Wikipedia that used team logos and the logos had to be taken out due to the fact that they weren't free-use. Bsroiaadn^{Let's Go Devils!} 04:31, 14 October 2007 (UTC)