NHL 2021: I Pledge Allegiance to Gritty

[Jimjamesak]

Or they’ll just be the Wild because they got bought by the same owners.

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(shakes head)

[Kepler]

The was also an anthrax storage facility out there, maybe they could reference that.

[Proud2baLaker]

IINM, Tri-Cities is actually closer, but yes. The drive out there from Portland is lovely.

I posted having no idea what teams actually existed in the WHL. It is closer than Wennatche but they didn't take advantage so Wennatche should. I'm sure they will pick a generic name like it appears much of the WHL has.

I'd love for them to be the Atom Smashers mostly because it would remind me of this hilarious bit from the Simpsons: https://youtu.be/Qq7wnMvLYg4

[Kepler]

Its really not all that far from the Hanford site. That could be ripe for tie ins.

IINM, Tri-Cities is actually closer, but yes. The drive out there from Portland is lovely.

[Jimjamesak]

That is very interesting. US Division up to 6 teams now. I hope they rebrand the team with a better name.

There are two possibilities. Wenatchee was where the first non-stop trans-Pacific flight landed (Lindbergh had Paris). And it is the site of a famous moral panic over fake claims of child abuse.

Or they’ll just be the Wild because they got bought by the same owners.

[Proud2baLaker]

That is very interesting. US Division up to 6 teams now. I hope they rebrand the team with a better name.

There are two possibilities. Wenatchee was where the first non-stop trans-Pacific flight landed (Lindbergh had Paris). And it is the site of a famous moral panic over fake claims of child abuse.

Its really not all that far from the Hanford site. That could be ripe for tie ins.

[Kepler]

Winnipeg’s WHL has been sold and will be moved to Wenatchee, Washington.

Crazy considering Wenatchee went from NAHL to BCHL to WHL in a decade.

That is very interesting. US Division up to 6 teams now. I hope they rebrand the team with a better name.

There are two possibilities. Wenatchee was where the first non-stop trans-Pacific flight landed (Lindbergh had Paris). And it is the site of a famous moral panic over fake claims of child abuse.

[Jimjamesak]

Winnipeg’s WHL has been sold and will be moved to Wenatchee, Washington.

Crazy considering Wenatchee went from NAHL to BCHL to WHL in a decade.

[Jimjamesak]

Yeah, having the Finals on only cable isn’t the best decision for ratings.

Doubly so for one that is almost entirely devoid of streaming options.

[aparch]

Was also the lowest cup clinching game since 1994, which was also broadcast on cable.

I dont think their should be concern about the ratings. Overall the season numbers have been on par or better than NBCSN, weren't they? Are they also using the combined data because the Finals games were simulcast on TNT, TBS, and TruTV (GM 5 was not on TBS because they were airing baseball).



Side note, in game four, the TBS broadcast was about 30 seconds to almost a minute ahead of the "official" TNT broadcast.

[Slap Shot]

I hope the NHL is satisfied with the results of rigging a team in Vegas. The SC finals had its lowest ratings since 2007.

[Kepler]

(Of course, these are the same fans I once heard say that even if OJ did it, she probably deserved it. I kid you not. And some of those comments were spoken by women.)

Everybody’s doing it: OJ, Warren Moon, Billy Dee Williams … Billy Dee Williams! Billy Dee Williams beating on women! What the f-ck is the world coming to? Say it isn’t so! Billy Dee Williams! What? I guess he must have had a little too much Colt 45. You know what they say, “There’s no reason to ever hit a woman.” Sh-t! There’s a reason to hit everybody. You just don’t do it. Sh-t, there’s a reason to kick an old man down a flight of stairs. You just don’t do it. Ain’t nobody above an a-ss-whooping. Ok? Anybody can give you a reason to hit him. And women know this for a fact. Women --- women know this for a fact there ain’t nothing more crazy, nothing more out of control, nothing more likely to embarrass you in a f-cking restaurant than a woman that knows you ain’t gonna hit her! When a woman is with a man she knows a 100% ain’t gonna hit her, oh! She can’t wait for him to do something wrong so she can yell at him like a little boy. “What the f-ck are you gonna do? Kiss my a-ss! I don’t care where we are, just kiss my a-ss! “you punk ???, you punk a-ss! F-ck you, f-ck you, f-ck you, f-ck you!” And the man’s like, “How the f-ck did we get here?” I’ll tell you how you got there. You had an argument with your woman, you went too far and that was it for you.

-- Chris Rock

[Kepler]

(Of course, these are the same fans I once heard say that even if OJ did it, she probably deserved it. I kid you not. And some of those comments were spoken by women.)

Everybody’s doing it: OJ, Warren Moon, Billy Dee Williams … Billy Dee Williams, Billy Dee Williams beating on women! What the f*ck is the world coming to? Say it isn’t so! Billy Dee Williams! What? I guess he must have had a little too much Colt 45. (A malt liquor) You know what they say, “There’s no reason to ever hit a woman.” ****! There’s a reason to hit everybody. You just don’t do it. ****, there’s a reason to kick an old man down a flight of stairs. You just don’t do it. Ain’t nobody above an ***-whooping. Ok? Anybody can give you a reason to hit him. And women know this for a fact. Women ??? women know this for a fact there ain’t nothing more crazy, nothing more out of control, nothing more likely to embarrass you in a f*cking restaurant than a woman that knows you ain’t gonna hit her! When a woman is with a man she knows a 100% ain’t gonna hit her, oh! She can’t wait for him to do something wrong so she can yell at him like a little boy. “What the f*ck are you gonna do? Kiss my ***! I don’t care where we are, just kiss my ***! “you punk ???, you punk ***! F*ck you, f*ck you, f*ck you, f*ck you!” And the man’s like, “How the f*ck did we get here?” I’ll tell you how you got there. You had an argument with your woman, you went too far and that was it for you. And women know you can go too far. She’s like: “You can’t.” Yes, you can go too f*cking far! I am a man, and if I’m having an argument with a man that’s bigger than me I know there is a zone I don’t go into. Ok? A zone I don’t f*ck with, ok? Then women, women will go at you, they don’t give a f*ck. They’ll spit on you, they hit you: “What the f*ck are you gonna do? What the f*ck are you gonna do?” Then she says something… they say the wrong thing, something like: “That’s why your mother’s a *****!” And she knows she went too far! Then she braces herself for the hit like … then the hit don’t come, she’s like: “Oh, I’ve got him now! “You little dick motherf*cker, kiss my ***! Little dick motherf*cker! Yeah, I don’t give a f*ck! “Yeah, I’ve f*cked all your friends, that’s right! Yes, I did that! I tossed the salad, child!”

-- Chris Rock

[MichVandal]

It's not widespread, but there is a slice of the NHL fan base that doesn't like:
a) the pregame / in-game promotions and theater
b) just how "Vegas" the whole thing is
c) still bitter about the expansion draft
d) annoyed that the team was in the SCF in just their first year.
e) having Mark Stone "LITR"-ed until playoffs
f) that the Vegas fans haven't had to go though suffering like "every other fanbase."

As for the LITR thing (which I barely understand), from what I've seen, they were hardly abusing that system compared to other teams- like Tampa. One even suggested that even with LITR, they were actually under the cap.

For the show- the rest of the NHL has been changing into that even without Vegas. When I was a kid, there was just an organist. When I was a student at Michigan, all of the sound came from the band or crowd. But before Vegas came, the sound system became important. Just as the video board did.

IMHO, Vegas is just the obvious evolution of all that has been happening over the last 30 years. Big deal. Good for them.

And don't the rest of the owners have to agree on how the expansion draft works? Blame them, not VGK. And that resulted in the SCF in the first season. And the lack of suffering. But I'm betting they will suffer just like the rest of us eventually. Given the nature of hockey, it really seems the cap rules work pretty darned well in terms of balancing success.

[Jimjamesak]

It's not widespread, but there is a slice of the NHL fan base that doesn't like:
a) the pregame / in-game promotions and theater
b) just how "Vegas" the whole thing is
c) still bitter about the expansion draft
d) annoyed that the team was in the SCF in just their first year.
e) having Mark Stone "LITR"-ed until playoffs
f) that the Vegas fans haven't had to go though suffering like "every other fanbase."

Hilariously, the most tweaked off fans are usually Kings fans.