I'm a NHL fan -October Saturday night games Train Ride Complete!!

[sbp]

Attn Hockey fans

The NHL season is starting soon and I can’t wait!!!! I had a lot of fun with the 2 Stanley Cup trains that I hosted during the Playoffs so I’ve come up with a way to have some trading fun with hockey and coupons during the regular season too.

The way this will work is that everyone playing will pick their favorite team (as long as it is still available) and you’ll be their #1 fan for all Saturday night games, for a month at a time.. (Since the season is so long, I don’t want to make anyone commit HAVE to play along for the entire season!!) Since season starts so late in September, we’ll lump September and October together for our first month, and then we’ll do signups again for the month of November and signups for each month after until the playoffs begin.

Ideally I’d love to have enough people playing so that all the 30 NHL teams are represented. So if anyone would like to take on more than one team, that’s ok too.

Every week, I’ll pair up the players, according to the NHL schedule and whichever team wins their Saturday game, that fan receives a potluck of 40 coupons from the losing team’s fan. So for an example, I’ll be claiming the fan spot for the Detroit Red Wings and their first Saturday night game is against the Chicago Blackhawks. Once we know the score, we can determine who will be mailing the coupons. The better your team plays and the more games they win, the more coupons you’ll receive. In the event of a tie, no coupons will need to be sent to the other fan.

If by chance we don’t have all the teams represented, we’ll still play – but if your team is playing against an unrepresented team on any given Saturday night, if your team wins, you will not receive any coupons that week.

As a fan, there’s no guarantee that you won’t have to sit out a week if there’s no one representing the team your team is up against, and if you pick a team that is having a rough season, there’s no guarantee that you will receive any coupons throughout the month and there's also no guarantee that if you do receive coupons that they will be coupons from your wishlist.


Criteria to play along: you MUST commit to the entire month of Saturday games, and if your team ends up with a losing score against a represented team, you MUST get your potluck in the mail within 4 days (the Wednesday following the game)

You don’t even have to be a hockey fan to play along!!!! Please reply if you’re interested in playing and committing for September and October games, and pick your team. I’ll update the OP with which teams have been spoken for as we go. Teams are available on a first come basis. Sign ups need to be in by September 24th since the first Saturday night game is the 25th.

I’m in for the Red Wings!

So who else is in for the September/October games?

Anaheim Ducks - Jessi
Atlanta Thrashers - bamaqponmom
Boston Bruins - amylynne01
Buffalo Sabres - dja13
Calgary Flames - bubblybu
Carolina Hurricanes - bugweena
Chicago Blackhawks - cybilx10
Colorado Avalanche - bartra
Columbus Blue Jackets - sbp
Dallas Stars
Detroit Red Wings – sbp
Edmonton Oilers - amylynne01
Florida Panthers - RobininVT
Los Angeles Kings - amylynne01
Minnesota Wild
Montreal Canadiens - sbp
Nashville Predators - Jessi
New Jersey Devils
New York Islanders
New York Rangers
Ottawa Senators
Philadelphia Flyers - Jen1
Phoenix Coyotes -bamaqponmom
Pittsburgh Penguins -chemwomyn
San Jose Sharks - jen276here
St Louis Blues
Tampa Bay Lightning - sbp
Toronto Maple Leafs - bubblybu
Vancouver Canucks
Washington Capitals - RobininVT

CHANGE OF PLANS: - Since preseason doesn't end until October 6th, our start date has been pushed back until the first Saturday night games on October 9th.

Signups are still going on and will end on Friday, October 8th.

[sbp]

Saturday night games schedule! (teams in red, just mean we have a FAN representing that team!)

Saturday October 9th
Phoenix Coyotes vs Boston Bruins
Columbus Blue Jackets vs San Jose Sharks
New York Rangers vs Buffalo Sabres
Ottawa Senators vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Dallas Stars vs New York Islanders
Montreal Canadiens vs Pittsburgh Penguins
New Jersey Devils vs Washington Capitals
Atlanta Thrashers vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Philadelphia Flyers vs St Louis Blues
Anaheim Ducks vs Nashville Predators
Detroit Red Wings vs Chicago Blackhawks
Los Angeles Kings vs Vancouver Canucks


Saturday October 16th
Ottawa Senators vs Montreal Canadiens
Boston Bruins vs New Jersey Devils
Colorado Avalanche vs New York Islanders
Pittsburgh Penguins vs Philadelphia Flyers
Tampa Bay Lightning vs Florida Panthers
Washington Capitals vs Nashville Predators
Columbus Blue Jackets vs Minnesota Wild
St Louis Blues vs Dallas Stars
Buffalo Sabres vs Chicago Blackhawks
Detroit Red Wings vs Phoenix Coyotes
Edmonton Oilers vs Calgary Flames
Atlanta Thrashers vs San Jose Sharks


Saturday October 23rd
New York Rangers vs Boston Bruins
Montreal Canadiens vs Ottawa Senators
Buffalo Sabres vs New Jersey Devils
Toronto Maple Leafs vs Philadelphia Flyers
New York Islanders vs Florida Panthers
Anaheim Ducks vs Detroit Red Wings
Atlanta Thrashers vs Washington Capitals
Pittsburgh Penguins vs St Louis Blues
Nashville Predators vs Dallas Stars
Columbus Blue Jackets vs Chicago Blackhawks
Los Angeles Kings vs Colorado Avalanche
Carolina Hurricanes vs Phoenix Coyotes
San Jose Sharks vs Edmonton Oilers

Saturday October 30th
New York Rangers vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Florida Panthers vs Montreal Canadiens
Boston Bruins vs Ottawa Senators
New York Islanders vs Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins vs Carolina Hurricanes
Nashville Predators vs Detroit Red Wings
Atlanta Thrashers vs St Louis Blues
Chicago Blackhawks vs Minnesota Wild
Buffalo Sabres vs Dallas Stars
Columbus Blue Jackets vs Colorado Avalanche
Tampa Bay Lightning vs Phoenix Coyotes
Washington Capitals vs Calgary Flames
New Jersey Devils vs Los Angeles Kings
Anaheim Ducks vs San Jose Sharks

[sbp]

Last call!!! I'll add Montreal Canadiens... dh will love that I'm rooting for his team! lol

These are the teams that we still need fans for -

Columbus Blue Jackets
Dallas Stars
Edmonton Oilers
Los Angeles Kings
Minnesota Wild

New Jersey Devils

New York Islanders

New York Rangers
Ottawa Senators
St Louis Blues
Vancouver Canucks

If you want to ride this fun train, let me know which team tonight before it's too late!!!!

I'll be pm'ing all the riders with the addresses tomorrow morning before we're off to soccer.

[bubblybu]

Well my team won but nop one tookt he other team.. After looking at the match-ups and since they are only for Saturday games not the SUnday games too.. I only have 1 week and it;s the last week.. with any match ups.. oh well.. good luck to everyone...

[sbp]

We're watching the recaps on the NHL channel right now and WOW - what a night with great games everywhere!!!

Here's the scores! (Team in bold print is the winner)

Saturday October 9th WOO HOO - week 1 is ALL SET for mailings and receiving!!

Phoenix Coyotes 5 (bamaqponmom), Boston Bruins 2 (amylynne01) amylynne mails to bamaqponmom RECEIVED
Columbus Blue Jackets 3 vs San Jose Sharks 2 (jen276here) no one mails to jen276here ALL SET
New York Rangers 6 vs Buffalo Sabres 3 (dja13) no one mails to dja13 ALL SET
Ottawa Senators 1 vs Toronto Maple Leafs 5 (bubblybu) no one mails to bubblybu ALL SET
Dallas Stars 5 vs New York Islanders 4 no one has to mail to anyone else ALL SET
Montreal Canadiens 3 (sbp) vs Pittsburgh Penguins 2 (chemwomyn) chemwomyn mails to sbp RECEIVED
New Jersey Devils 2 vs Washington Capitals 7 (RobininVT) no one mails to RobininVt ALL SET
Atlanta Thrashers 3 (bamaqponmom) vsTampa Bay Lightning 5 (sbp) bamaqponmom mails to sbp RECEIVED
Philadelphia Flyers 1 (Jen1) vs St Louis Blues 2 Jen1 doesn't have to mail to anyone ALL SET
Anaheim Ducks 1 (Jessi) vs Nashville Predators 4 (Jessi) Jessi doesn't have to mail to herself ALL SET
Detroit Red Wings 3 (sbp) vs Chicago Blackhawks 2 (cybilx10) cybilx10 mails to sbp RECEIVED
Los Angeles Kings 2 vs Vancouver Canucks 1 no one mails to anyone ALL SET

[amylynne01]

Anaheim Ducks 1 (Jessi) vs Nashville Predators 4 (Jessi)

Does Jessi mail to herself? Better make that envie good!

So since the Bruins lost, I send to bamaqponmom, right?

Is it too late to take on another team (or two)? I want to have as many matchups as we can!

[sbp]

Jessi can just hand deliver it to herself!

I'm ok with adding more teams to anyone that's already riding... they just won't count towards yesterday's games.......

I'll add Columbus Blue Jackets to mine.. which won't help next week but will help the last 2 week's matchups. If anyone else wants to add a team to their list, jlmk before Friday night and I'll redo the address list..

[amylynne01]

I'll take Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings. I hope these are good teams or I'll be sending out lots of qs every week!

[cybilx10]

Detroit Red Wings vs Chicago Blackhawks
out to Lesley in the mail

[Jessi]

Yup I hand delivered mine! LOL!