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Then look back in from time to time. Although this section of the site is meant mainly as a place
for the rest of you fans to mingle, and to grouse and joke amongst yourselves -- whether it's to
snipe at corporate greed and stupidity, to offer your own original thinking on how to repair and
restore our game, to announce some fascinating new historical tidbit you've unearthed, or just
to trade trivia questions -- we do drop in now and then just in case you want to tell us personally
what a couple of geniuses or what a pair of idiots we are. We think we've already stated our case
pretty clearly in The Death of Hockey and the new Hockey Compendium themselves, but then
again, we coulda gone on for another few hundred pages if our editors hadn't been threatening to
strangle us. There's also our current news and editorial page and news archive, which we
urge you to visit and contemplate. If you really want to hear more from us, though, and if you're
patient, we'll post our replies to comments in the Fan Forum that we find particularly intelligent
(sometimes even to those we find particularly outrageous or pathetic). So try to be brilliant.
And hey! Keep it clean. Let's all demand the best for the game we love.
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In conjunction with the publication of the all-new Hockey Compendium, we've opened our
Forum a little wider and we encourage you to add any questions or comments you have on the
game's history and on hockey records and stats. If you want even more discussion of the NHL's
interminable state of crisis -- still the major focus of our Forum -- know that before this site went
on-line in March '99, we were privileged to have a record-setting four-week run as discussion
hosts in the ChaptersGlobe Open Book forum from December 1998 through January '99.
The discourse was animated, to say the least, and we were invited back for an unprecedented
return stint as hosts in January 2000. You might want to visit there first, to get a line on the tenor
of the conversation; you can still add your comments to the forum there, in fact. The huge
discussion pages tend to change their URLs on a daily basis within the vast Chapters website,
so rather than try to give you a link directly to our discussion pages there only to have the
address go invalid by tomorrow, we'll send you to this Chapters anchor page:
ChaptersGlobe Communities: Discussions -- Open Book
Once you're there, just keep on clicking through from anything that says "Communities" or
"Discussions" until you find a link for "Open Book." The record for The Death of Hockey
is there in the archives, and the many comments from our readers and your fellow hockey fans
are well worth reading through. Bookmark us here before you go; there's no return link there.
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