Posted on 01/08/2013 1:16:44 PM PST by shove_it
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. You know when a player who really loves his team and city gets traded, and he gives an emotional speech about how sometimes you forget hockey is a business, and that sometimes makes it unpleasant? Let this lockout be a lesson that the same goes for fans. During that 113-day ordeal, you were repeatedly condescended to, taken advantage of, and lied to, by both sides of the argument. But never forget that the contents of your wallet, like one of the podded-up humans in The Matrix, are nothing but fuel for a machine that cruelly exploits you....
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Hockey? What’s that?
Hockey’s the best sport in North America.
The League is living on borrowed time as long as the Loonie is near par with the US$.
Recall only a few years ago, Canadian teams were not financially competitive with US team’s salaries etc.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD: “I went to the fights the other night and a hockey game broke out!”
Diehards will always be diehards.
I suggested a 120 game season to run through next year, taking two months off in the summer.
Lots of money lost by Concessionaires, people who work the ice, set up the stadium, sell tickets,even people who clean the stadium, people who don’t get big salaries and got hurt by the strike. How do they make up for their loss?
In order to survive the NHL is going to have to admit that it is a regional niche sport. They need to to go to a 12 team league: EAST- Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, WEST - Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. Divvy up the best players amongst 12 teams and you have a hell of a quality league.
Need to include Pittsburgh and Denver in your roster.
San Jose also fills their venue. Why not let the owners decide?
Gary bettman is the largest threat to hockey. He is killing the sport. Having playoff games played during spring afternoons instead of the evenings when more people will watch is idiotic just like him.
Gary bettman is the largest threat to hockey. He is killing the sport. Having playoff games played during spring afternoons instead of the evenings when more people will watch is idiotic just like him.
Gary bettman is the largest threat to hockey. He is killing the sport. Having playoff games played during spring afternoons instead of the evenings when more people will watch is idiotic just like him.
Rabid hockey fan here. Tons of autographed memorabilia.
This lockout gave me time to re-think my time spent watching games.
I had plenty of time to realize I can’t afford all those hours.
How does San Jose do when the team isn’t doing well? The Sun Belt teams have difficulties when their teams struggle. I only mention those cities because they have a long standing passionate fan base. The NHL isn’t going to contract anyway so this is all conjecture.
That’s fine with me, in fact I thought about those clubs after posting. Wasn’t Pittsburgh in some financial difficulty at one time? Add Pittsburgh to the East and Denver in the West. I think the league could go to 16 teams, but in NHL’s current state there are just too many teams.
SJ is usually in the playoffs, plus the fan base includes a lot of youth league and adult rec players. Hockey is huge in SJ.
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