NHL to run Pick 15 Super Saturday Twitter Promotion

With the NHL season starting Thursday, hockey fans are starting to follow their team(s) and the media through Twitter. Well, it looks like Twitter will be talked about more in the NHL when Super Saturday arrives a couple days later.

Early this morning on NHL.com, the league announced that they will run a contest where followers of the NHL Twitter page can pick the 15 games in what the league is calling their #NHLPick15 contest. Here is the schedule of games for October 3:

Chicago vs. Florida (Game to be played in Helsinki, Finland)

Detroit vs. St. Louis (Game to be played in Stockholm, Sweden)

Vancouver @ Colorado

Carolina @ Boston

Montreal @ Buffalo

Philadelphia @ New Jersey

Pittsburgh @ New York Islanders

Ottawa @ New York Rangers

Toronto @Washington

Tampa Bay @ Atlanta

Minnesota @ Columbus

Nashville @ Dallas

Calgary @ Edmonton

San Jose @ Anaheim

Phoenix @ Los Angeles

There will be a tiebreaker involved in this, just in case it is needed. This tiebreaker consists of the combined penalty minutes for the 15 games.

Since tweets are only 140 characters (or less), here is an example entry on how to pick winners:

@NHL ANA, BOS, CBJ, CGY, CHI, LAK, MTL, NAS, NYR, PHI, PIT, STL, TBL, VAN, WSH 300 pims #NHLPick15

For all of you last minute folks, the deadline for entries is Friday October 2nd at 11:59 P.M.

@Gary_Bettman Joins Twitter

After the "Brian Burke" parody twitter account gained steam earlier this year it seems like more and more hockey personalities have jumped to the ever popular social networking site. Well add another one to that list.

Just recently Gary_Bettman has decided to jump on the twitter bandwagon to share his tweets with the hockey world.

Let's compare "Brian Burke" and Gary_Bettman tweets for a minute

Let's start with "Brian Burke" first:

Ran into Eklund last night. He kept grilling me about trades and rumors. Finally I just paid him for the pizza and slammed the door.

We all know what happened after Sean Leahy posted the article over at the Puck Daddy Blog at Yahoo. Of course, the "anonymous" blogger over at Hockey Buzz by the name of Eklund decided to bash Puck Daddy editor Greg Wyshynski. The article is linked in the lead, but I'll add this from Hockey Buzz Hogwash and yes if your wondering I miss that site (just a note I will not under any circumstances have a direct link to any of Eklund's rumors at Hockeybuzz).

Here's a tweet from Gary_Bettman, who joined this morning actually.

OK Just read "The One Page Business Plan". The NHL is going to rock this year!

Any bets on which front office personality is going to use twitter next? Discuss in the comments section below.