Random NHL comments/thoughts

[slothfacekilla]

That is very surprising to me because the reported prices for their season ticket packages seem pretty damn high

[buddha]

22 minutes ago, slothfacekilla said:

That is very surprising to me because the reported prices for their season ticket packages seem pretty damn high

SLC is a fast growing market and the only other competition is the Jazz.  no football and no baseball.

these are the types of markets where hockey will thrive.  places like raleigh.  

that being said, i cant see how they avoid going back to houston or atlanta.  houston is massive and is soon to be the 3rd largest market in the country when i passes chicago.  atlanta has changed demographically with so many transplants from the north.  soccer is thriving there now.  there will likely be the same appetite for hockey.  just depends on whether the league wants to take a risk to get burned 3 times.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

I'm giving up on the Quebec argument for now, even though I still believe in my heart they deserve a team before another southern team gets added. But if the NHL wants to expand beyond the relocation to Utah then I'd love to see Milwaukee get a team. They have 2 million people in and around the Milwaukee-Racine area. Wisconsinites have proven they will support hockey with the Badgers NCAA team, the Admirals in the AHL, and fan support for both the Blackhawks and Wild. Plus, kids and families grow up playing the sport of hockey in the state. I'd give a team to Milwaukee before Atlanta or Houston.

[buddha]

5 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

I'm giving up on the Quebec argument for now, even though I still believe in my heart they deserve a team before another southern team gets added. But if the NHL wants to expand beyond the relocation to Utah then I'd love to see Milwaukee get a team. They have 2 million people in and around the Milwaukee-Racine area. Wisconsinites have proven they will support hockey with the Badgers NCAA team, the Admirals in the AHL, and fan support for both the Blackhawks and Wild. Plus, kids and families grow up playing the sport of hockey in the state. I'd give a team to Milwaukee before Atlanta or Houston.

i dont see any big push for an nhl team in milwaukee.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

16 hours ago, buddha said:

i dont see any big push for an nhl team in milwaukee.

https://nhlmke.com/

Other than a website, a twitter page, and some articles about the idea I don't see a push for it. It doesn't look like there is a serious group of investors pushing to finance and bring a franchise to Milwaukee.

[lordstanley]

So at the dinner-dance after our daughter's high school grad the other day they played Don't Stop Believin' and even Vancouver teens like to sing the South Detroit part. 16 years to the day since the Wings' won their last Cup, in '08. When my daughter had just turned 2. Bookends. I'm a sappy ol' dad ...

[MichiganCardinal]

On 6/6/2024 at 1:24 PM, lordstanley said:

So at the dinner-dance after our daughter's high school grad the other day they played Don't Stop Believin' and even Vancouver teens like to sing the South Detroit part. 16 years to the day since the Wings' won their last Cup, in '08. When my daughter had just turned 2. Bookends. I'm a sappy ol' dad ...

I remember celebrating with my dad. I was still a kid myself, in middle school, and it wasn’t until I saw him losing his mind that I understood the gravity of winning the Cup.

If I’d known the Detroit sports drought to come I may have savored it more. Alas.

Go Lions(?)

[Hongbit]

Ugly, ugly first 10 minutes of the 2nd by Edmonton.   

[Hongbit]

Just like that Edmonton comes to life.  Bob is something else.  They are going to need a deflection in front or some McJesue magic to score.

[lordstanley]

Didn’t this almost happen before? Or was it a different sport or different site? My memory is foggy. 
 

 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Cap Geek closed when the owner died from cancer I believe. Sucks that Cap Friendly, which I believe replaced it, is shutting down. 

[Shinzaki]

What's left...Spotrac?

[slothfacekilla]

Screw the Capitals, cry poor when they have to build a new arena but have the money to buy a site just to shut it down.  Losers.

https://puckpedia.com/

PuckPedia is probably going to be the replacement that emerges

[Hongbit]

 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Edmonton is in a complete free fall now. 

[lordstanley]

This is the point in the series every year when someone at HFBoards will post “was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” and some European who doesn’t get the reference mocks him for his supposed ignorance of history. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

So the team name for the Utah team is Hockey Club and their logo is the shape of the State of Utah with the word Utah on it. Really uninspiring choice for their team name and a very bland and unoriginal logo. 

Edited June 14, 2024 by Mr.TaterSalad

[lordstanley]

1 hour ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

So the team name for the Utah team is Hockey Club and their logo is the shape of the State of Utah with the word Utah on it. Really uninspiring choice for their team name and a very bland and unoriginal logo. 

I agree but I heard it is just a temporary name for this first season until the fans decide on the permanent one. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

If it's just a temporary, transition name that's fine then. I just had a hard time believing this is what the fans chose.

[slothfacekilla]

Ya they are just using this for a season while fans vote on their real branding, which seems to just be an elaborate way to build a big email database for the team's marketing department 😂.  I feel like more effort could have gone into it (it seriously looks like something you'd get from a website you found googling "free sports logo"), but in the end it won't really matter since it is temporary.

[Hongbit]

I want to hate everything about it but it’s actually pretty average.   Not horrible and not great, which is probably what you’d want for a temporary placeholder.  

[slothfacekilla]

 

[buddha]

that is nuts.  good luck getting seider for less than 9.

[gehringer_2]

36 minutes ago, buddha said:

that is nuts.  good luck getting seider for less than 9.

It's good to play next to a Hughes

[Hongbit]

Just now, gehringer_2 said:

It's good to play next to a Hughes

Reinforces how devastating a move it was to select Zadina one pick ahead of Hughes.  
 

As bad as Pistons Darko right ahead of Carmelo, Bosh, Wade and Lions Ebron ahead of Aaron Donald, OBJ, and Lewan.