1993

The last year that a Canada based team won the Stanley Cup. What, how can this be? Has Canada lost the last vestiges of relevance? Guy LaFleur died recently too. 

1993

The last year that a Canada based team won the Stanley Cup. What, how can this be? Has Canada lost the last vestiges of relevance? Guy LaFleur died recently too. 

Theres just too many teams in the leagues now and a lot of players on all team are good players but not that good compared to when the leagues were smaller. To win the cup you need more than one player that ends up having to play 15 minutes of each period and you can't afford to have a puck hog on your team that isn't a team player in a game that is a team sport.

Now Canadians don't just play for Canadian team but a whole wack of American teams. We were stupid not picking up Gretzky when he first stared out. He should have been playing for Toronto and I think both his father and him would have liked that, but Oil Baron money in Edmonton paid top dollar and a way more that all the other teams could have afforded. Here's some of the thinks he won, the Art Ross trophy, 10 times, the Conn Smythe trophy twice, 9 Hart trophies. I guess we can't forget the 4 Stanley Cups. He scored 894 goals and 1963 assists.

Gretzky has made an amazing impact on the game as a whole. The league even had to introduce a rule on his behalf, although not officially called the Gretzky rule, it became known as it due to his amazing prowess on the ice.  Before 1985, when teams took offsetting minor penalties, it would drop both teams to 4 on 4 or 3 on 3.  When teams went down to these numbers Gretzky and his team were so dominant that it was deemed simply unfair.  From that point forward offsetting minor penalties would not drop teams down players, the game would remain at 5 on 5. Although the rule was removed eventually to try and promote more scoring, you can imagine how dominant a player Gretzky was to force the hand of the league with this rule!

On Friday, May 19, 1780, parts of New England and Canada went completely dark during the day. This event is known as New England's Dark Day.

"This extraordinary darkness came on between the hours of 10 and 11 a.m. and continued till the middle of the next night," said Professor Samuel Williams from Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Rupert, New York, the skies were already obscured during sunrise.

People at Harvard College, the undergraduate college of Harvard University, reported the obscuration at around 10:30 a.m., reaching peak blackout at 12:45 p.m.

Animals were acting like it was evening in the middle of the day. Someone who experienced the event said that the air smelled like soot and that rain was covered with an ashy film.

In New Hampshire, the fallen ash measured up to 15 cm deep.

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Before the Dark Day, people in New England reported that the sun looked red and the sky yellow. And when the Dark Day turned to a dark night, the moon appeared red as well.

Because it was 1780, communication was limited, so it was difficult to explain the phenomenon. In Connecticut, Abraham Davenport, a member of the Governor's council, thought that the darkness was a sign of the Day of Judgment.

© Provided by The Weather NetworkNew England's Dark Day was so eerie some thought it was the Day of JudgmentCourtesy of New England Historical Society

"I am against adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment; if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought," said Davenport.

The Dark Day is thought to be caused by the perfect blackout conditions of thick fog, smoke from forest fires, and clouds.

Those in affected areas needed to use candlelight to see in the middle of the day.

To learn more about New England's Dark Day, listen to today's episode of "This Day In Weather History."

On Friday, May 19, 1780, parts of New England and Canada went completely dark during the day. This event is known as New England's Dark Day.

"This extraordinary darkness came on between the hours of 10 and 11 a.m. and continued till the middle of the next night," said Professor Samuel Williams from Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Rupert, New York, the skies were already obscured during sunrise.

People at Harvard College, the undergraduate college of Harvard University, reported the obscuration at around 10:30 a.m., reaching peak blackout at 12:45 p.m.

Animals were acting like it was evening in the middle of the day. Someone who experienced the event said that the air smelled like soot and that rain was covered with an ashy film.

In New Hampshire, the fallen ash measured up to 15 cm deep.

Click here to subscribe to This Day in Weather History

Before the Dark Day, people in New England reported that the sun looked red and the sky yellow. And when the Dark Day turned to a dark night, the moon appeared red as well.

Because it was 1780, communication was limited, so it was difficult to explain the phenomenon. In Connecticut, Abraham Davenport, a member of the Governor's council, thought that the darkness was a sign of the Day of Judgment.

© Provided by The Weather NetworkNew England's Dark Day was so eerie some thought it was the Day of JudgmentCourtesy of New England Historical Society

"I am against adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment; if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought," said Davenport.

The Dark Day is thought to be caused by the perfect blackout conditions of thick fog, smoke from forest fires, and clouds.

Those in affected areas needed to use candlelight to see in the middle of the day.

To learn more about New England's Dark Day, listen to today's episode of "This Day In Weather History."

There was also a year without summer which was caused by volcanic eruptions. 

Britain had days where the clouds were low and it was misty rainy and think everyone in the small town was burning coal. The smoke couldn't escape the low cloud level and people ended up dieing from it. Mark or Art can probably tell the story better. Britain had a low of years way back when that they had very little sun light, probably cause by something like mass fires or volcanos and their crops weren't getting enough sun light to grow. I think it may have been between the 900 ad and 1100ad. Trees rings are the best markers to know what were good and bad years. If the rings are close together it was bad years and if they are farther apart it been good years. So if you have really old trees they can tell a lot from them.

The most recent "year without a summer" was 1816 when a volcanic eruption in Indonesia blacked out much of the sky around the world. A year of dark days and constant rain. It was stuck indoors on a dismal holiday in Switzerland that year that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.  

As a kid that when to the movies a lot to see all the horror flicks, I never found Frankenstein very scary. Ones like the House on Haunted Hill where a skelton came out from behind a curtain in the show at the scary part and sailed across over showgoes heads. Sardonicus was another scary one for a 7 yr old.

Saturday they had the kids mantinees on and for 10 cents you got to see 3 movies and a couple of cartoons. Some days it was the horror movies like the Mummy, Dracula the Blob, wolfman and so on. The best part after the show was over was stepping outside the show and seeing it was still day light out and all 6yr olds know that the boggie man doesn't come out until after dark. That didn't stop me from running all the way home though.

When I got safely home my parents would ask me what pictures did I see. I would go into descriptive details and my father would have a smile on his face and my mother would say your going to have night mares again.

Horror movies are not my genre either, although I think everyone should have the bejeezus scared out of them once in a while just to keep the adrenaline levels in balance.  As a child I had to be carried out of The House on Haunted Hill (it was the decapitated head-on-a-shelf).  As an adult I've never been so scared as I was when I watched The Shining.  I still freak out when I see a little girl wearing a blue dress and hope against hope she doesn't have a twin.

Horror movies are not my genre either, although I think everyone should have the bejeezus scared out of them once in a while just to keep the adrenaline levels in balance.  As a child I had to be carried out of The House on Haunted Hill (it was the decapitated head-on-a-shelf).  As an adult I've never been so scared as I was when I watched The Shining.  I still freak out when I see a little girl wearing a blue dress and hope against hope she doesn't have a twin.

Here's Johnny.

What a brilliantly made movie this was.

It was a classic, created by some of the film industry's greats. It was an adult film, a deep psychological story that played upon your imagination. In a film period time of ample shootings'  stabbings, cut'em ups, burn'ems, inventing  knew ways of constant death, of Freddie Krugers, when every film did nothing more than compete to  kill ever more, this jewel came along. It wasn't universally greeted with enthusiasm either by the film critics, who have the easiest job in the world by the way, picking fault. It has been more and more appreciated as the years go by, for a very good reason, it's a masterpiece. Its competitors are in the bin.

What a brilliantly made movie this was.

"Heeeeeere's Johnny."

You will find Tommy not only like Ameican we have Canadians troops on the front line in Ukraine training and aiding the Ukrainians. We also have humanitian workers there doing first aid, supplying food and water and medical supplies and delivering weapons directly to the troops at the front. Much more important work that eating tape don't you think?. 

You forgot this part Tommy.

A supporter of states’ rights and slavery’s extension into the new western territories, he opposed the Whig Party and Congress on polarizing issues such as the Bank of the United States (though Andrew Jackson’s face is on the twenty-dollar bill). For some, his legacy is tarnished by his role in the forced relocation of Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi. The trail of tears. 60,000 of the 5 civilized tribes including  thousands of their black slaves.

The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated Indian reserve. Thousands died from disease before reaching their destinations or shortly after.^] According to Native American activist Suzan Shown Harjo of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the event constituted a genocide,^[13] although this label has been rejected by historian Gary Clayton Anderson.^[14]

No wonder like you said, he was a favourite of Donald Trump.

You forgot this part Tommy.

A supporter of states’ rights and slavery’s extension into the new western territories, he opposed the Whig Party and Congress on polarizing issues such as the Bank of the United States (though Andrew Jackson’s face is on the twenty-dollar bill). For some, his legacy is tarnished by his role in the forced relocation of Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi. The trail of tears. 60,000 of the 5 civilized tribes including  thousands of their black slaves.

The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated Indian reserve. Thousands died from disease before reaching their destinations or shortly after.^] According to Native American activist Suzan Shown Harjo of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the event constituted a genocide,^[13] although this label has been rejected by historian Gary Clayton Anderson.^[14]

No wonder like you said, he was a favourite of Donald Trump.

Oh no Pete, I did not forget that part. Now add to it when the Supreme Court rescinded Jackson's order to remove the redskins from the Carolina's. Jackson's replay was: Well the injuns are going away so let them (Supreme Court) enforce their decision.  Now that's a strong leader eh? What would Trudeau do? Maybe apologize & give em a stipend to buy booze?

You forgot this part Tommy.

A supporter of states’ rights and slavery’s extension into the new western territories, he opposed the Whig Party and Congress on polarizing issues such as the Bank of the United States (though Andrew Jackson’s face is on the twenty-dollar bill). For some, his legacy is tarnished by his role in the forced relocation of Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi. The trail of tears. 60,000 of the 5 civilized tribes including  thousands of their black slaves.

The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated Indian reserve. Thousands died from disease before reaching their destinations or shortly after.^] According to Native American activist Suzan Shown Harjo of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the event constituted a genocide,^[13] although this label has been rejected by historian Gary Clayton Anderson.^[14]

No wonder like you said, he was a favourite of Donald Trump.

Oh no Pete, I did not forget that part. Now add to it when the Supreme Court rescinded Jackson's order to remove the redskins from the Carolina's. Jackson's replay was: Well the injuns are going away so let them (Supreme Court) enforce their decision.  Now that's a strong leader eh? What would Trudeau do? Maybe apologize & give em a stipend to buy booze?

I already answered that question in a rely to Art. Trudeau is confused at the best of times and doesn't know if wants to be a Native, Indi or a Sikhi when he grows up.