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Contents 1 Greg Johnson 2 Coaches Table 3 Userpage 4 Re: GTA:SA picture tag 5 Edits 6 Detroit Red Wings Training Staff 7 Walter Humeniuk 8 Did you know? 9 Nancy Beard / Bill Tibbs 10 2002 Stanley Cup Engravings 11 Walter Crossman 12 Jacques Martin 13 H. MacIntyre and R.J. Galloway 14 Al Sobotka 15 Bob Bailey (hockey) 16 Nice work 17 Pages on NHL trainers/staff 18 Ice Hockey Project discussion of hockey player notability and project scope 19 Template Articles 20 Ed Bruneteau 21 WikiProject Ice Hockey August 2007 Newsletter 22 Award 23 Userpage design. 24 Your Chris Osgood Image 25 DYK 26 Re:NHL team seasons 27 WikiProject Ice Hockey newsletter 28 DYK 29 Re -Template:NHLTeamSeason 30 Fair use rationale for Image:Fortworthtexan.gif 31 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Fortworthtexan.gif 32 Fair use rationale for Image:Fortworthwing.gif 33 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Fortworthwing.gif 34 WikiProject Ice Hockey March 2008 Newsletter

[edit] Greg Johnson

I was under the impression that the list goes from the least recent team to the most recent team. There doesn't seem to be any concrete policy for how teams should be listed on the talk page you provided. --Sparkhurst 21:30, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I just looked at that. Sorry, I thought it was decided. I guess either way is fine. Maybe I'll bring it up again and everyone can decide on a format for continuity. Sorry to go reverting your edits before its decided! --Schmackity 12:28, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coaches Table

Okay, here are your answers.

1. When it comes to calculating winning percentage with overtime losses, count them like ties - half a win in the standings.
2. Your spacing on the table is normal. If you don't have a set defined length for each column, it will automatically fit to the longest entry in that column. In the case of the Games Coached column, this means that column are as long as the "Games Coached" header, since it's the longest entry in that column. In short, that kind of extra spacing is normal.

And thank you for the complement on the Bruins table. You did a pretty good job yourself with the Wings' coaches table. –NeoChaosX (talk | contribs) 19:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage

I changed your userpage a bit if you don't mind, see the changes in the history page. Also -

Michaelas10 18:30, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: GTA:SA picture tag

Thanks for the clarification. My thought is centered on focusing on the subject of utmost importance first before others. However, if the standard format requires that the image caption reads as such, I can comply. I'll reword the caption in part to your initial edit and we'll see if other reader have any problems with this revision. ╫ ２５ ^{◀RingADing▶} 15:33, 6 September 2006 (UTC) ╫

[edit] Edits

Specifically on the Red Wings page where you often revert. They're good reverts, but you have to let the user know why or else it's just going to come right back. Thanks! scsgoal31 00:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Detroit Red Wings Training Staff

Hello Schmackity,

I'm Currently trying to concentrate on Biographies of NHL Training Staff. I Came across a name that I can't find any information on. Since you are a Red Wings fan maybe you could help me out.

W. Humeniuk was the Assistant Trainer to Carl Mattson in the early 1950s and He won the Stanley Cup with them in 1950 Before He was Replaced by Ross "Lefty" Wilson.

If you know anything about this man (Particularly What his First Name was) or where I would go about fnding information on Him Could you please Help Me.

Thanks,

Michael Drew 18:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Walter Humeniuk

Hey,

Thanks that helped a lot. The page for Walter Humeniuk is started check it out and tell me what you think ?

My Next Project's are Carl Mattson and Walter Crossman both of whom were Red Wings trainers. If you know anything about either of those men it would be a big help.

Thanks,

Michael Drew 19:52, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know?

On 4 December 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Air Zoo, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 17:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nancy Beard / Bill Tibbs

Hey Schmackity,

I'm once again trying to deal with obscure Stanley Cup winners again. I would like to create a page on Nancy Beard who had something to do with the 2002 Detroit Red Wings championship. She is no longer with the team so there is nothing on the official website about her. Do you happen to know anything about her or where I could go to find information on people like this.

There is also the issue of Bill Tibbs whose Name appears on the 1952 Stanley Cup [1] but He is not listed as a player on any of the offical Detroit rosters of that time do you know who He is and whether He played any other role with the team (i.e. Trainer) and if any information exists on this man where would it be located ? Thanks, Michael Drew 04:15, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2002 Stanley Cup Engravings

Hey Schmackity,

I was wondering, Do You know whether or not the Red Wings Black Aces like Sean Avery, Maxim Kuznetsov, Ladislav Kohn, Jesse Wallin, and Uwe Krupp got their names engraved on the Stanley Cup in 2002 ?

Thanks, Michael Drew 01:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Walter Crossman

Hello Schmackity,

Thanks for the information about my previous questions. You seem to be better at finding these things than me. My next question revolves around Walter Crossman who was with the team during the 1950s and was still with the team during their Stanley Cup Championship seasons in 1997 and 1998.

Any Information you can give me would be great.

Thanks, Michael Drew 04:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jacques Martin

Hey Schmackity,

Another question on Stanley Cup related matters. Did Jacques Martin win the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 1996 before going to the Ottawa Senators. I've been trying to find out but am getting nowhere.

Thanks, Michael Drew 20:13, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] H. MacIntyre and R.J. Galloway

Hello Schmackity,

This question is not for a Detroit Red Wings Related Article but for a Toronto Maple Leafs one. It relates to the 1947-48 Toronto Maple Leafs Stanley Cup Team. On the 1948 Stanley Cup Plaque [2] H. MacIntyre and R.J. Galloway are named as "Team Doctors". I've been trying to find information on them however I can't seem to find even what their first names were. Do you think you could help me on this one.

Thanks, Michael Drew 23:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Al Sobotka

On 8 April 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Al Sobotka, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 16:24, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bob Bailey (hockey)

On 10 April 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bob Bailey (ice hockey), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 16:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

On June 25, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Herb Boxer, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Great work on the ice hockey Schmackity and we'd like to see you at DYK more often..your write well!...Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:20, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nice work

Glad to see lots of articles from the Ice hockey project making it to DYK. By the way, nice expanding boxes on your user page. :) --Mus Musculus 14:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! And yeah I saw your userpage and really liked it. Hope you don't mind if I stole some of your ideas! Imitation is the greatest form of flattery! --Schmackity 17:38, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pages on NHL trainers/staff

Hey there Schmackity,

I'm in a bit of a problem and wondering if you could help me, somebody has decided to delete all of my articles on NHL trainers and other personell. (Many of whom have won multiple Stanley Cups). Maybe you know of how to stop this ? I spent a lot of time researching these people myself along with the assistance you provided so maybe you could give me some advice on how to proceed ?

Thanks, Michael Drew 17:22, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ice Hockey Project discussion of hockey player notability and project scope

Please come join the WikiProject Ice Hockey Notability standards for hockey players discussion. I'd like to see input from all our project members who have an opinion. Thanks! ColtsScore 02:43, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template Articles

Hey There Schmackity,

I've just been looking at some of the recently created articles on WikiProject Ice Hockey. Recently there have been alot created by User:Patken4 such as Tom O'Neill (ice hockey), Morris Mott, Pete Palangio, Dan Schock, Martin Prochazka, Terry Reardon, Fred Robertson, Gordon "Tony" Savage, Enio Sclisizzi, D.J. Smith, Rene Trudel, Joe Zanussi, Johan Witehall etc. These articles like most of the one's he creates are one or two sentence stubs with little if any information and not much use to anyone. I'm wondering if you can tell whether he's useing somekind of template ? Also some of his articles have information that is factually wrong and links that go to information on a completely different player ! I've tried to fix some of them but it's very tidious. I'm wondering whether I/we should just manually fix every mistake he's made or norminate dome of them for deleting or what esle should we do. Is there any point in telling him to do more research into the articles he creates before he creates them ?

I'd very much like to hear what you think on this situation Thanks, Michael Drew 01:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Please be aware that the Wikiproject has decided to make one or two sentence stubs for as many players as we can as we decided it was better to have a two sentence stub than no article at all. Once we have reached the point where everyone is added we are then going to expand them into full articles. As for mistakes or incorrect links, that is what the rest of us editors are here for to fix those sort of things. So no we should not nominate them and no we do not need him to do more research. If anything he is doing a thankless job that most of us are glad its him doing and not us. --Djsasso 19:42, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ed Bruneteau

On 29 July 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ed Bruneteau, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Balloonman 00:15, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Ice Hockey August 2007 Newsletter

edit   WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter Dear Schmackity! You are receiving this newsletter because you have signed up as a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. The purpose of this newsletter is to update on the goings on of the project, as there have been major changes, and a lot of new recognized content in the past few weeks. If you are an inactive user, you probably won't recognize the new and improved state of the WikiProject! From the project, Maxim. edit   New recognized content By Maxim There have been a lot more Good and Featured articles written in the past few weeks. Here is a list:[1][2][3][4] Featured articles Wayne Gretzky — Promoted on 2006-02-14; on Main Page on 2006-06-13 New Jersey Devils — Promoted on 2006-11-20; on Main Page on 2007-06-30 Martin Brodeur — Promoted on 2007-04-28 Fighting in ice hockey — Promoted on 2007-05-07; on Main Page on 2007-07-19 Dominik Hasek — Promoted on 2007-05-25 Good articles Calgary Hitmen Colorado Avalanche National Hockey League Joe Sakic Nottingham Panthers Stanley Cup Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup Ray Emery The French Connection (hockey) Featured lists[5] List of ice hockey teams in Alberta List of ice hockey teams in Saskatchewan Frölunda HC seasons List of Colorado Avalanche players List of family relations in the National Hockey League List of New Jersey Devils players List of New Jersey Devils head coaches List of drafted Frölunda HC players Notes ^ All articles are in order of promotion, as written on the main WikiProject page; FA's have official dates of promotions. ^ A star represents a featured article or list ^ A green circle represents a good article ^ Stanley Cup is an A-Class article ^ The lists system differs from articles, and doesn't give an official date of promotion edit   Article Improvement By Maxim Upon some discussion on the WikiProject talk page, the Article Improvement Drive page was revamped by Krm500 and Maxim. 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Sweden Ice Hockey task force This task force was initiated by Krm500. Its current goal is to improve Henrik Lundqvist to Good or Featured article status. It covers all Swedish clubs, leagues and competitions and associated articles, players and coaches that are Swedish, or have played/coached for a Swedish club, and arenas in Sweden. They plan to eventually operate as a sort of a sub-project, which will have its own articles for creation, ranking importance and quality of articles, and co-ordinate article improvement. Its current members are Krm500, Bamsefar75, and CLAES. New Jersey Devils task force This task force was initiated by Bsroiaadn. Its goal is to improve New Jersey Devils to Featured Topic status. Although it currently meets the required article count, the task force wishes to improve it further. Its area of coverage is very similar to the Sweden Ice Hockey task force. 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[edit] Award

Hey Schmackity,
Here is the award that you've earned by finding my super secret page.

		The Hidden Link Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Schmackity for finding the super secret hidden link on Selfworm's page! Good job!

Congrats! selfworm^Talk) 22:05, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage design.

As you can see on my userpage, my design is a combination of several elements by other people. As long as either I or the other people get credited, there's no problem with copying a design. Let me know when you've changed it further. - Mgm|^(talk) 17:54, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your Chris Osgood Image

Can you please crop the image: Image:Osgood practice.jpg to show Osgood in a closer perspective? Thanks. --Hasek is the best 16:24, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On 12 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mark Major, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--DarkFalls ^talk 08:00, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:NHL team seasons

Looks great! Good luck handling the other 70 seasons the Wings have played, heh. The Flames are only at 28, and that has been a massive project for me as it is! Resolute 23:25, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Ice Hockey newsletter

edit   WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter Dear Schmackity! You are receiving as you are a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey There's been more new thing going on at WP:HOCKEY, and I think this will help you to stay informed. Since the last newsletter sent out in August, there's been great changes. Read on to find out! Maxim(talk) This just in: Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has just been promoted to featured list status, while the bot was delivering the newsletter. Maxim(talk) 02:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC) And I've just promoted Art Ross Trophy. And Clarence S. Campbell Bowl is at FLC. This should be the last update. Maxim(talk) 00:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC) edit   New recognized content By Maxim Especially due to the featured topic drive, there have been many new featured lists promoted concerning NHL awards. Here's the full list of all the 13 FL's promoted since the last newsletter.[1][2] Hart Memorial Trophy James Norris Memorial Trophy Vezina Trophy Conn Smythe Trophy Frank J. Selke Trophy Lady Byng Memorial Trophy Lester B. Pearson Award Calder Memorial Trophy Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy King Clancy Memorial Trophy Jack Adams Award Presidents' Trophy List of Calgary Flames players There have been no new good articles or featured articles. Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has been given A-Class status due to multiple issues raised at FLC. ^ The last one, List of Calgary Flames players, is the only one not associated with the featured topic drive. ^ At the time of publishing, there were 5 lists at WP:FLC and 2 lists in the "Holding cell", as there's been an accepted guideline to not put more that 5 trophy lists at the same time to, "compensate for the sanity of the reviewers". edit   Did You Know? By Maxim There have been 4 new articles featured in the Did You Know section? on the Main Page since August. Wally Tatomir - August 4, 2007, authored by User:Maxim. ...that Wally Tatomir, head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, holds four patents on ice hockey-related equipment? Mark Major - August 12, 2007, authored by User:Schmackity ...that ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates, where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record? Garth Butcher - September 15, 2007, authored by User:Canuckle. ...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League? AMP NHL Winter Classic - September 22, 2007, authored by User:Skudrafan1 ..that the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States? edit   Featured Topic Drive By Maxim Started by User:Scorpion0422, the aim of this drive is to make NHL awards a featured topic. A featured topic is basically a set of very high quality articles (good articles and featured articles/lists). In this case, the topic is NHL awards. Many users have helped, including Scorpion0422, Resolute, Serte, Hasek is the best, Maxim, Croat Canuck, Spike Wilbury, FutureNJGov, and T Rex/Dinosaur puppy. The progress has been very good; there are 12 featured lists promoted, and 2 good articles: Hart Memorial Trophy (Scorpion) James Norris Memorial Trophy (Scorpion) Vezina Trophy (Scorpion) Conn Smythe Trophy (Serte) Frank J. Selke Trophy (FutureNJGov) Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (Scorpion) Lester B. Pearson Award (Scorpion) Calder Memorial Trophy (Croat Canuck) Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (Maxim) King Clancy Memorial Trophy (Maxim) Jack Adams Award (Maxim) Presidents' Trophy (Scorpion) Stanley Cup (Earlier collaboration, very many involved) Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup (Maxim) Check the project page if you are interested in helping out. Although it's closer to being done than not, there's still work to be done. The next topic that might be tackled is Stanley Cup, but this remains purely speculative and in discussion.

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[edit] DYK

On 2 October 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 2001-02 Detroit Red Wings season, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Cheers, D_arkF_alls ^talk 01:14, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re -Template:NHLTeamSeason

Good point on the older seasons. I've added a parameter for both the Prince of Wales Trophy and O'Brien Trophy for the older NHL playoff and regular season champions. The header for the Detroit Cougars is a tough one. I could modify it to force the editor to use a wikilink in the template itself (as one must do for divisions right now), but that would require editing over 200 articles to fix what that would break. Leaving it pointing to the disambig page for now might be best.

Incidentally, and this is simply my personal opinion, but I think that 1926-27 Detroit Red Wings season should be moved to 1926-27 Detroit Cougars season, as that was the proper name of the team in that year. Regards, Resolute 00:09, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] WikiProject Ice Hockey March 2008 Newsletter

edit   WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter Dear Schmackity! You are receiving as you are a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey There's been many more new things going on at WP:HOCKEY, and I think this will help you to stay informed. Since the last newsletter sent out in October, there have been many new changes. I'm hoping to make this newsletter a bit more regular; Kaiser matias and Skudrafan1 asked for a new issue a week ago, but sadly, I've been a bit lazy and committed to other things hence this other delay. --Maxim(talk) edit   New recognized content By Maxim There has been numerous new recognized content, so much that it's too time-consuming to sift through the "trophy cases" on WP:HOCKEY. Some interesting achievements: Hockey Hall of Fame was featured on the Main Page on March 7, 2008. AMP Energy NHL Winter Classic was promoted to Good Article status. Kaiser matias has been steadily promoting lists of NHL players per team to featured status. As of press time, List of Columbus Blue Jackets players is at FLC. Although covered in its own section, National Hockey League awards being promoted to featured topic status deserves a mention here, too. It seems that after October's issue, an interest in getting articles featured on the Main Page's Did You Know section has piqued. Half of the project's DYKs were made after October 2007. Krm500 assisted in promoting an ice-hockey related image to featured status. The featured version is Image:Wgretz edit2.jpg. Last, but certainly not least, Kim Williams has single-handedly gotten Nottingham Panthers, a British ice hockey team, promoted to featured article status. edit   Task forces By Maxim There was a new taskforce created within the WikiProject to deal with topics related to the Boston Bruins. It was originally founded as a separate WikiProject, but was quickly turned into a taskforce within WikiProject Ice Hockey. The list of participants is located here. Located at WP:BRUINS, the taskforce's goals are to make Boston Bruins and Bobby Orr featured articles. Good luck! edit   New Administrators By Maxim Since October, there have been three new admins promoted within the project: Kaiser matias (RfA) - Promoted with a final tally of 30/3/2, nominated by Epbr123 Djsasso (RfA) - Promoted with a final tally of 46/1/0, nominated by Maxim Rjd0060 (RfA) - Promoted with a final tally of 67/5/5, nominated by Ryan Postletwhaite A previously admin-only feature has been made available for all users. The rollback feature allows a user to quickly revert vandalism with one click. If you wish to have rollback, contact an active admin or post a request to WP:RFR. edit   Featured Topic Drive By Maxim The original featured topic drive, initiated by Scorpion0422, has concluded succesfully. National Hockey League awards is now a featured topic, with 24 articles in total. Of them, 20 are featured lists, one is a featured article, and the other three are trophy articles that were too short to become featured lists. Eight users signed up to help out, shown here. The next Featured Topic hasn't been decided upon, and the ideas and organization for it fell apart. If you have any ideas, don't hesitate to share them at WT:HOCKEY. edit   Notes More editors are needed to help out with the newsletter. Maxim doesn't have an infinite nor perfect supply of ideas, and thus he might omit some interesting news. Portal:Ice hockey is being considered for featured status. Feel free to nominate features at Portal:Ice hockey/Suggestions. Should Chris Pronger have been suspended for more than eight games for stomping on Ryan Kesler? Vote here!

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