Hockey Blades

Hockey Blades is a blog, a logo design as well as a fantasy hockey league. Get the sharpest logo around for your team.

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Spreadshirt Shop

Hockey Blades apparel is now available as flex and flock prints in its new Spreadshirt store.

Flex print designs are printed using PVC and are shiny while flock prints are soft, felt-like material. These types of printing are usually more durable than DTG (direct-to-garment) printing.

Another advantage is the ability for customers to choose the colours of the designs, from 1 to 3 in total. For example, if you prefer prefer to have a hat with a red BLADES logo instead of metallic silver, you can click “edit” and change the logo’s colour.

Visit the store page for other designs and apparel options.

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BIG BAD BLADES

If you need an intimidating name for your fantasy hockey team, consider the Big Bad Blades.

If you need some sweet swag to brag, consider ordering this swag from Teespring. When you show up at your fantasy draft wearing this apparel, your opponents will know you mean business.

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Fly your fantasy flag and brag with your swag!

Show off your fantasy hockey team colours.

Teespring flags feature durable polyester material with double stitching for extra reinforcement. We also use bright, vivid inks for printing that are fade and UV resistant for long lasting quality.  These 60” x 36” flags are lightweight so we recommend using in low-wind settings to preserve quality and appearance long term.

Click on links to choose which design(s) to purchase:

Blades

Buffalo Wings

Fierce Falcons

Passive Pylons

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Silver Blades Hockey Skate Logo by blades

Silver Blades Hockey Skate Logo by blades

Check out this awesome 'Silver Blades Hockey Skate Logo' design on @TeePublic!

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NEW TeePublic Stickers Available! Falcons, Pylons, Buffalo Wings

These die cut, vinyl stickers are great for showing off your fantasy hockey team. Visit our TeePublic store for more!

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Shop t-shirts, phone cases, hoodies, art prints, notebooks and mugs created by independent artists from around the globe.

For all your fantasy hockey league swag, visit the BLADES Teepublic store and choose the team design of your choice.

Having a great logo is the shape of sharp.

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Congratulations, Island Dynasty!

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Wanted: Fantasy Hockey Managers

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Blades Shades

Blades Shades Wayfarer Sunglasses by hockeyblades Browse Blades Party Shades online at Zazzle.com

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Flattr

You can now support this blog by Flattr which is a way of flattering a content creator with your own flat rate.To Flattr a creator, you must first create your own Flattr account. You then must transfer money to your Flattr account. You decide how big your total monthly budget is. Regardless of how many creators you will support, the total of your donations will be this budget.

For example, if you have a budget of $1.00 and you Flattr me and nine other content creators during a one month period, each of us would receive 10 cents. If you did the same with a budget of $10.00, we would each receive a dollar.

There is no limit to the amount of content creators you can Flattr. Think of it as giving each of them a slice of pie but you decide how many pieces to give. The more slices you serve, the smaller the slices are. That’s not a bad thing as any amount is appreciated.

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I’ve just opened up a store at Teespring.com where you can buy Blades apparel in different styles, colours and sizes. It’s a crowdfunding site which means a campaign goal is set to sell a certain amount of t-shirts in a set amount of time. If there are enough reservations at the end of the campaign, only then will the t-shirts be printed and the customers be charged.

I’ll be adding more variations as time permits but if you would like to see a particular style or logo colour added, let me know in the comments, by email or voicemail.

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2 Replacement Managers Needed For Fantasy League

Yahoo

You're allowed to keep 6 players from your roster (1 goalie max) If interested, let me know which team you want and which 6 players you want to keep. Hit Somebody (drafting 5th) Mikael Granlund Travis Zajac Sean Couturier Henrik Sedin Rick Nash Carl Hagelin Tomas Fleischmann Jonathan Huberdeau Jordan Eberle Derek Dorsett Reilly Smith Scottie Upshall Ryan Murray Michael Del Zotto Patrick Wiercioch Johnny Oduya Andrei Markov Justin Schultz Jamie Benn Lars Eller James Neal Tuukka Rask James Reimer Chad Johnson Alex Stalock Old Time Hockey (drafting 7th) Daniel Briere Nick Bjugstad Vincent Trocheck Tyler Toffoli Jordan Staal Lee Stempniak Andrew Cogliano Chris Higgins Daniel Alfredsson Jaromir Jagr Gustav Nyquist Marian Hossa Niklas Kronwall Jay Bouwmeester Mike Green Lubomir Visnovsky Erik Johnson Nick Holden Michael Raffl Brandon Prust Pavel Datsyuk Ryan Miller Al Montoya Cam Ward Ben Scrivens Stephen Weiss Henrik Zetterberg Scoring & Settings League ID#: 376 League Name: BLADES 2 Password: Custom League URL: http://hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/hockeyblades Draft Type: Live Standard Draft Draft Time: Sun Sep 28 2:00pm EDT [ Add to My Calendar ] Max Teams: 16 Live Draft Pick Time: 1 Minute Keeper Settings: Yes, enable Keeper League Management tools Keeper Deadline Date: Fri Sep 19 3:00am EDT Scoring Type: Head-to-Head Max Acquisitions for Entire Season: No maximum Max Trades for Entire Season No maximum Trade Reject Time: 2 Trade End Date: March 5, 2015 Allow Draft Pick Trades: Yes Waiver Time: 2 days Waiver Type: Continual rolling list Waiver Mode: Standard Can't Cut List Provider: Yahoo Sports Trade Review: League Votes Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules Max Acquisitions per Week: 3 Min Goalie Appearances: No minimum Weekly Deadline: Daily - Today Start Scoring on: Week 1 Playoffs: Week 23, 24 and 25 (8 teams) Note: Week 25 runs 6 days from Apr 6 to Apr 11 Playoff Reseeding: Yes Lock Eliminated Teams: Yes Divisions: Yes (2 divisions) Playoff Seeding Options: Division winners advance but seeded by overall standings Make League Publicly Viewable: Yes Roster Positions: C, C, C, C, LW, LW, LW, LW, RW, RW, RW, RW, D, D, D, D, D, D, G, G, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, IR, IR, IR, IR+, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA Forwards/Defensemen Stat Categories: Goals (G), Assists (A), Plus/Minus (+/-), Penalty Minutes (PIM), Powerplay Goals (PPG), Powerplay Points (PPP), Shorthanded Points (SHP), Faceoffs Won (FW) Goaltenders Stat Categories: Games Started (GS), Wins (W), Goals Against Average (GAA), Saves (SV), Save Percentage (SV%), Shutouts (SHO)

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Thoughts On NHL Rule Changes

Here's my thoughts on the recent announcement of rule changes by the NHL.

Fines for Diving: this is pocket change to these millionaires

Less Shootouts: Games that go to overtime will now have the ice surface dry scraped by the zamboni in an effort to avoid going to shootout. Really? You think that will make any difference? Here's a better idea. Make the overtime period 10 minutes instead of 5. If you really want to cut down on shootouts, GET RID OF THE #*%@ SHOOTOUT!

"Spin-O-Rama" This maneuvre is no longer allowed on penalty shots or shootouts. Why? If it's allowed during regular play, what's the difference?

Expanded Trapezoid: I agree that the trapezoid behind the nets should be expanded. It should extend from one side of the boards straight across to the other. In other words, GET RID OF THE TRAPEZOID! You want more goals, NHL? Allow overconfident goalies to skate out 30 feet into the corners get caught mishandling the puck, overturning it to an opponent for an easy goal. Just like the way it was before the idiotic trapezoid. No one likes those stupid little lines behind the net.

Stalling On Faceoffs: Will a team be penalized if it's taking a defensive zone face-off and at the last second, their goalie asks the ref for a stick change after discovering that his goalie stick has mysteriously been broken? Will that goalie be allowed the change or will the referee deny him and tell him to play with his broken stick until the next whistle?

Here's some rule suggestions of my own:

Penalize players who sweep the puck out of the crease with their glove even if they don't close their hand over it. There's already one goalie in each net, we don't need anymore. I've seen Josh Gorges make two glove saves standing in place of his goalie in the crease. Block it with your shins, your body, your butt or your head. Just don't use your hands in the crease.

Don't allow teams killing a penalty to ice the puck. They've committed a rule infraction and yet they are allowed to kill time? There's no logic to that.

What do you think of these new rule changes?

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2014-15 BLADES 2 RULES

BLADES 2 Head-to-Head Dynasty Fantasy Hockey (keeper league) These BLADES rules are in addition to the Yahoo! Sports rules. You are expected to learn them and abide by them. Ignorance of the rules will not be accepted as an excuse. This league is publicly viewable and aims to be family-friendly. The BLADES and its commissioner reserve the right to add to this list and/or modify any existing rule at any moment for the good of the league. 1. No manager shall use the name of a real NHL or other professional/minor league team for their team name. Names of famous people, characters and works are also prohibited. Anything copyrighted will be rejected. 2. No vulgar terms or language shall be used in whole or in part as a manager’s team name or manager name. 3. Team names shall not be changed once the regular season commences. You may experiment with as many name changes as you want between the time you sign up, right up until the time of the first official games that count in the standings. At that point, the one you choose will be the one you keep all season. ONCE THE SEASON STARTS, ALL TEAM NAMES WILL BE LOCKED. 4. Team logos/avatars must be family-friendly and are subject to the same criteria as rule #2. 5. Good-natured trash talk will be allowed within reason but must be kept rated PG. 6. Any manager who neglects his/her team for an extended period of time risks losing their franchise and could have the team assigned to a new manager at any point during the season or at the very least, the following season. Examples of neglect include but not limited to; not responding to trade offers, not editing lineup regularly, not responding to league e-mails, etc. If you are going on vacation, please edit your lineups for the time that you will be away.

7. Draft positions will be determined by the final playoff finishes, not the regular season standings. Teams will select in reverse order of how they finished in the Championship round (THIS EXCLUDES THE CONSOLATION ROUND - see RULE #8 ). This means that the league champion is the last team to draft in the 1st round of every season, the runner-up selects second last, etc.

8. The #1 overall draft pick will be assigned to the team that finishes first in the consolation round (7th place overall). The #2 draft pick would go to the 8th place team, etc. The team that finishes last (16 team league) would have the #8 overall draft pick. The exception to this is Rule #9.

9. In the event that this league should expand by one or more teams, the new expansion team(s) shall draft first in the draft selection of its first season. The remaining order of the draft will be as usual once all expansion teams have selected their draft picks. An expansion team is defined as a team having not existed the previous season. 10. Managers will be allowed to select 6 players from their roster to keep for next year’s roster. Managers are only allowed to keep 1 goalie. The remaining 5 players can be any number of forwards and defencemen. Managers may also choose to not keep a goalie and select an extra F or D. Managers also have the option of keeping less than the allowable maximum and making up the difference in the draft selection. 11. All of the BLADES Commissioner’s decisions are final. 12. Failure to comply with any of these rules will result in having your team roster locked and possible banishment from the league. 13.To claim the BLADES fantasy league championship sticker banner, the winning manager must provide a shipping address to where I, the Commissioner, can send it. All costs will be assumed by me, the league’s Commissioner, including shipping and handling with the exception of possible custom’s duty fees. The prize awarded will be the one that is posted on this site, no substitutions. The BLADES Commissioner shall not be held responsible for the winning team’s manager failing to provide a valid shipping address. If no shipping address is provided, the winner agrees to waive his or her right to the prize and no prize shall be awarded. All personal information will be kept private and will not be used for any other purpose. 14. Joining this league means you understand and agree to these rules and conditions.

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2014-15 BLADES H2H RULES

BLADES Head-to-Head Dynasty Fantasy Hockey (keeper league) These BLADES rules are in addition to the Yahoo! Sports rules. You are expected to learn them and abide by them. Ignorance of the rules will not be accepted as an excuse. This league is publicly viewable and aims to be family-friendly. The BLADES and its commissioner reserve the right to add to this list and/or modify any existing rule at any moment for the good of the league. 1. No manager shall use the name of a real NHL or other professional/minor league team for their team name. Names of famous people, characters and works are also prohibited. Anything copyrighted will be rejected. 2. No vulgar terms or language shall be used in whole or in part as a manager's team name or manager name. 3. Team names shall not be changed once the regular season commences. You may experiment with as many name changes as you want between the time you sign up, right up until the time of the first official games that count in the standings. At that point, the one you choose will be the one you keep all season. ONCE THE SEASON STARTS, ALL TEAM NAMES WILL BE LOCKED. 4. Team logos/avatars must be family-friendly and are subject to the same criteria as rule #2. 5. Good-natured trash talk will be allowed within reason but must be kept rated PG. 6. Any manager who neglects his/her team for an extended period of time risks losing their franchise and could have the team assigned to a new manager at any point during the season or at the very least, the following season. Examples of neglect include but not limited to; not responding to trade offers, not editing lineup regularly, not responding to league e-mails, etc. If you are going on vacation, please edit your lineups for the time that you will be away.

7. Draft positions will be determined by the final playoff finishes, not the regular season standings. Teams will select in reverse order of how they finished in the Championship round (THIS EXCLUDES THE CONSOLATION ROUND - see RULE #8 ). This means that the league champion is the last team to draft in the 1st round of every season, the runner-up selects second last, etc.

8. The #1 overall draft pick will be assigned to the team that finishes first in the consolation round (7th place overall). The #2 draft pick would go to the 8th place team, etc. The team that finishes last (12 team league) would have the #6 overall draft pick. The exception to this is Rule #9.

9. In the event that this league should expand by one or more teams, the new expansion team(s) shall draft first in the draft selection of its first season. The remaining order of the draft will be as usual once all expansion teams have selected their draft picks. An expansion team is defined as a team having not existed the previous season. 10. Managers will be allowed to select 6 players from their roster to keep for next year's roster. Managers are only allowed to keep 1 goalie. The remaining 5 players can be any number of forwards and defencemen. Managers may also choose to not keep a goalie and select an extra F or D. Managers also have the option of keeping less than the allowable maximum and making up the difference in the draft selection. 11. All of the BLADES Commissioner's decisions are final. 12. Failure to comply with any of these rules will result in having your team roster locked and possible banishment from the league. 13.To claim the BLADES fantasy league championship sticker banner, the winning manager must provide a shipping address to where I, the Commissioner, can send it. All costs will be assumed by me, the league's Commissioner, including shipping and handling with the exception of possible custom's duty fees. The prize awarded will be the one that is posted on this site, no substitutions. The BLADES Commissioner shall not be held responsible for the winning team's manager failing to provide a valid shipping address. If no shipping address is provided, the winner agrees to waive his or her right to the prize and no prize shall be awarded. All personal information will be kept private and will not be used for any other purpose. 14. Joining this league means you understand and agree to these rules and conditions.

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Vladimir Has Trouble Putin On Hockey Helmet

Keep in mind, this is the guy who said he would consider the Sochi Olympics a failure if Russia did not win the gold medal in men's hockey.