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  1. Treliving has been an NHL executive for 20 years and is the son of a Canadian business magnate. He is the definition of 'Old Boys Club'.
  2. Sounding like Dubas bought into the TO media hype about how every other team would want him as their GM and asked for way too much. Now he's out of a job completely.
  3. I would not at all be surprised if Dubas is working for another team next season. I don't care what he said, for all we know it was a negotiating tactic.
  4. Joe Veleno? Somebody has been playing too much NHL 18.
  5. Yeah I've been to end of year sale once before. I don't think I actually got anything IIRC. There can be great deals if you're looking for actual hockey equipment, but I haven't stepped on the ice since I moved to Vancouver and have no room for hockey gear inside my broom closet sized living space. As far as merch goes though, it is a big disappointment. For everything there that looks cool (in my eyes at least) and is on sale, the only sizes remaining are either going to be for little kids or that elephant Tocchet keeps mentioning. That's pretty par for the course for team stores in arenas though. I've never been particularly fashionable and I'm past the age where I can justify paying 70 bucks for a t shirt or 150 for a hoodie to myself. Even the stuff that ends up on sale ends up around the normal price for a piece of clothing. I also have no real use for Canucks themed trinkets. I don't need a spatula with the orca on it or flying V christmas tree ornaments or whatever other ridiculous overpriced nonsense they're trying to hock. I have a hard enough time justifying 50 dollars for 2 beers when I go to a game. The only thing I really like the team store for is the hats. They seem to be priced appropriately, at least in comparison to other retailers, and there are usually cool designs you can't find anywhere else. Still, if I have free time over the weekend and am downtown I will definitely check it out. There may be a diamond in the rough, who knows. But I certainly won't be holding my breath.
  6. Well I am not a season ticket holder and even if I were I'm not going to take off in the middle of the work day to purchase an oversized t shirt that is discounted yet still overpriced. I'll show up at some other point on the weekend and pick through the dregs with the rest of the unwashed masses.
  7. Can't wait to show up and the only stuff remaining is XS or XXL.
  8. And you are completely ignoring the point of the post.
  9. @24K PureCool https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/37671200/nhl-coyotes-play-asu-no-vote
  10. There aren’t a lot of them. That’s a fact. That’s a significant reason why they weren’t able to get traction in their market. Any in-roads they made were counterbalanced by the move to Glendale. Don’t call a comment defending them condescending because you don’t like it, especially in the very same breath where you actively disparage another fanbase for being upset about moves that are still detrimentally impacting the team.
  11. Genuine question, and don’t take this as me defending Vegas because I don’t want them to win at all but I am genuinely curious. At what point would it take for them to win the cup and have it not be seen as “the expansion team winning.” They’ve been in the league for 6 years now. The Oilers won their first cup after 5 seasons. Philly won their first cup after 7 seasons. The Islanders won in 8. The Flames in 9. Colorado won their first year, but that was after toiling in Quebec for decades. The flip side are teams like Washington and St. Louis recently, who each waited well over 40 years, so nobody talks about them being a “new” team winning their first cup.
  12. Comets would be a great name, but I think the Stars might not be too fond of the other Texas team also being named after an astronomical body. Bulls and Giants are both terrible and wouldn’t pass. I’m sure there’s a lot of really cool names out there beyond basic “Texas” sounding ones.
  13. There’s already team called the Jets. What about Houston Flyers instead? Keeps that aviation theme but with a more unique name.
  14. I don't know if they operate on that principle. They've said they're not looking to expand at the moment. They have a team that is an absolute money pit and now unequivocally needs a new home. They have a massive market that ostensibly wants a team. It doesn't make a lot of sense to leave them in the lurch for a less appealing one because they hypothetically could get a big expansion fee from them at some indeterminate time in the future, when they could draw a large fee from wherever they expand to regardless.
  15. Yeah its obviously time for the experiment to end, but I don't understand some of the gloating towards Coyotes fans I've seen online. Just because there aren't a lot of them doesn't mean the fans they do have care any less than you or I do for the Canucks. Their team is leaving and that feeling has to absolutely suck.
  16. I am reserving the right to withhold judgement until later. I think its far too early to tell and isn't right to pass judgement until he plays more than a few meaningless games for us (and what his following contract looks like). Overall I'm not super keen on the trade but am choosing to remain cautiously optimistic.
  17. And the Aeros name has been subsumed by the IHL and AHL teams as well. The WHA was a clear second fiddle to the NHL, whether you want to consider that minor or major league is a technicality and missing the point I was trying to make. New expansion teams want to create their own identity, and be their own thing. The only exception is the Senators, and that’s because that team pitifully pretends to be the same one that won a bunch of cups before the invention of the wheel.
  18. Hence the entire point of me saying it’s subjective.
  19. Whether or not Gordie Howe played for them has no bearing on it not being a minor league identity. Besides that’s irrelevant to my point. Seattle went with Kraken, not Totems or Metropolitans. Vegas went with Golden Knights not Wranglers or Thunder. If Houston gets them I imagine they would want to forge something brand new. They can still honour the Aeros without being the Aeros.
  20. Debatable. Depends what you like. I’d take Vancouver’s cool drizzle over Houston’s muggy swamp every time.
  21. I don’t know if they will. Expansion teams seem to want to forge their own identities rather than adopt minor league ones from the city’s past. Also their are already 2 aviation themed names in the league (arguably 3) so in today’s branding hyper-conscious sports world they probably want something more distinct.
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