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NHL 2015, Part 3: Stanley Cup and Offseason

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St. Clown said:
Are you looking at getting tickets to the game? The arena should seat around 50,000 with the expanded bleachers the Vikings added.
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No. I don't really care for outdoor games.

I went to the Badger one at Lambeau and while it was pretty cool, once was enough.


Glad Minnesota finally got a game. Long overdue.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
No. I don't really care for outdoor games.

I went to the Badger one at Lambeau and while it was pretty cool, once was enough.


Glad Minnesota finally got a game. Long overdue.
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I'm of the same mind. I went to the Gopher/OSU game and that's the last I'll attend. The rink was horrible because it was so cold that it made for a very chippy surface, and the only thing worse than the rink were the sightlines.
 
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MTU/WMU was my first and only outdoor game unless someone else is paying. Especially if it's in a baseball park - the sightlines at CoPa made NMU's Dingleberry Events Center look like a godsend.
 
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Went to the Detroit/Toronto winter classic. Had really good seats, and being in a football stadium is a plus (comparing to alumni game @ Comerica).

I won't say I'd never go to another, but I also won't say I can't wait for another to go to.
 
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I can't say I'm opposed to going to an outdoor game at some point just to say I did... I think It'd be a fun time.... It's a case where the game itself is only half of the experience... The other half is everyone else attending and the resulting party... I'm sure Minnesota will get behind the game and it'll be a good time (assuming it's above 0*F of course :o )

How much demand do locals think their will be for the game? I'm sure the Wild will try and get as many of their fans into the seats as possible, but I'm sure the Hawk's fanbase is more willing to pay $250+ per seat...
 
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RaceBoarder said:
I can't say I'm opposed to going to an outdoor game at some point just to say I did... I think It'd be a fun time.... It's a case where the game itself is only half of the experience... The other half is everyone else attending and the resulting party... I'm sure Minnesota will get behind the game and it'll be a good time (assuming it's above 0*F of course :o )

How much demand do locals think their will be for the game? I'm sure the Wild will try and get as many of their fans into the seats as possible, but I'm sure the Hawk's fanbase is more willing to pay $250+ per seat...
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A lot of people around here are going to attend this because it's a Wild game and not a Gopher game - bigger fanbase. They'll sell out TCF Stadium and people will call it a great success regardless of the quality of the game. The day of the Gopher game, temps were around 8*F during the game and that place was near capacity.
 
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RaceBoarder said:
I can't say I'm opposed to going to an outdoor game at some point just to say I did... I think It'd be a fun time.... It's a case where the game itself is only half of the experience... The other half is everyone else attending and the resulting party... I'm sure Minnesota will get behind the game and it'll be a good time (assuming it's above 0*F of course :o )
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Pshaw! It was 20 below with a wind chill when the Oilers and Habs played the 2003 Heritage Classic in Edmonton. Over 57000 on hand at Commonwealth Stadium! ;)
 
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Dallas signs Oduya. The Stars are apparently employing the "if you can't beat em, just sign a bunch of their players" strategy.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Dallas signs Oduya. The Stars are apparently employing the "if you can't beat em, just sign a bunch of their players" strategy.
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Kind of the Vikings of the NHL. ;)


For those keeping score, just received my 3rd 16x20 photo of a recent Hawks team posing with the Cup at center ice and got it up on the wall in my cave.

I've got room for one more in that area and after that I'll have to find a bigger wall.

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Sorry Aparch (and other members of the rabble) - I don't have photos of the other 3 Cup winning teams as I wasn't alive yet and those ones, while a nice bit of Hawks history, don't mean anything personally to me.

I also only have the 1996-97 and 2010-11 Packers represented on my wall - none of the other stuff that happened before my birth.

Rest assured though that all those previous championships by all of the teams that I follow are represented in my heart.

:p
 
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Canadian $ at 0.77US. That will kill any Canadian expansion talk until the Cdn $ gets well above 0.80US. The weak Cdn$ also hurts HRR, which hurts the cap, which increases the escrow grab.
 
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Screw Quebec. They already have the Yankees of the NHL there in Montreal, let them be happy with that. Maybe they can have the Panthers in a few years.

If the league is serious about expansion, they need to discuss evening out the conferences by adding two teams in the west. If that means admitting Vegas now, and playing with unbalanced divisions while hoping Seattle joins later, then so be it. I don't think Kansas City is knocking on the NHL's door, and with the exception of Portland (where it seems zero ownership interest has been expressed), most other cities of consequence within the Western footprint are either not big enough for the N, or have little to no potential for sustaining decent attendance.
 
Dude Love said:
They don't deserve a team because the Canadian dollar crapped the bed in the mid-90s?
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They could not afford a team. Revenue was in CDN$. Payroll was in US$. When the difference in exchange rates is huge (I think there was a time when the loonie was south of 70% of the greenback), you are in trouble.

The cap helps, but the current cap has been artificially inflated by the 5% escalators that had no relation to HRR. If the loonie heads to $0.71US, then all that revenue from Rogers and the good people of Toronto become Columbus like. Then either the player escrow gets huge or the cap does not increase, which makes thise $10 million contracts albatrosses.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Kind of the Vikings of the NHL. ;)


For those keeping score, just received my 3rd 16x20 photo of a recent Hawks team posing with the Cup at center ice and got it up on the wall in my cave.

I've got room for one more in that area and after that I'll have to find a bigger wall.

:D


Sorry Aparch (and other members of the rabble) - I don't have photos of the other 3 Cup winning teams as I wasn't alive yet and those ones, while a nice bit of Hawks history, don't mean anything personally to me.

I also only have the 1996-97 and 2010-11 Packers represented on my wall - none of the other stuff that happened before my birth.

Rest assured though that all those previous championships by all of the teams that I follow are represented in my heart.

:p
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I would like to do something similar, if/when we buy a new house that actually has a space for a mancave for me. :p
At this point I'd only have 2 pictures, of teams that I'm a fan of winning championships in my lifetime, both Twins, but its better than nothing.
 
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I've got a room like that in my house, but it's overwhelmingly baseball related.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I would like to do something similar, if/when we buy a new house that actually has a space for a mancave for me. :p
At this point I'd only have 2 pictures, of teams that I'm a fan of winning championships in my lifetime, both Twins, but its better than nothing.
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Well... that's 2 more baseball ones than I have although I do have Brewers memorabilia up.


Championship teams are always represented, but the walls are not limited to them alone.
 
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Dude Love said:
They don't deserve a team because the Canadian dollar crapped the bed in the mid-90s?
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No. QC deserves and will support a team just as Winnipeg has since the return of the Jets. Unfortunately, the dropping value of the Loonie, as has been stated by Joe, will have an impact for years to come.

As for balancing the conferences, I read a commentary recently that Saskatoon could support a team just as the Peg does. Too bad the arena only seats around 10K.
 
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