Monty Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 13 minutes ago, Johnny Shotgun said: Holy fk.....still more of your sermonizing......unbelievable. Still more dodging. Unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Shotgun Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 54 minutes ago, Monty said: Still more dodging. Unbelievable. http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/kelly-mcparland-winnipeg-fans-spread-egg-on-bettmans-face-in-just-17-minutes This took all of 5 minutes to uncover this link which obviously you couldn't. Now do you have someone nearby who can read the article for you and explain the jist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 6 minutes ago, Johnny Shotgun said: http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/kelly-mcparland-winnipeg-fans-spread-egg-on-bettmans-face-in-just-17-minutes This took all of 5 minutes to uncover this link which obviously you couldn't. Now do you have someone nearby who can read the article for you and explain the jist? All I required. You were right. I was wrong. Thanks for posting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lui's Knob Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Another team in the desert. Perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift-4 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Confirmed? http://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/news/report-nhl-picks-las-vegas-as-expansion-site/ar-AAh2xML?li=AAggNb9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerridwen Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 3 minutes ago, Shift-4 said: Confirmed? http://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/news/report-nhl-picks-las-vegas-as-expansion-site/ar-AAh2xML?li=AAggNb9 What are they gonna call them? The Flush? Stacked Deck? The Bandits? (As in one-armed) One-Eyed Jacks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift-4 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 1 minute ago, Cerridwen said: What are they gonna call them? The Flush? Stacked Deck? How about the Bandits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerridwen Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Just now, Shift-4 said: How about the Bandits? You were posting while I was editing...got them already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 1 hour ago, Cerridwen said: What are they gonna call them? The Flush? Stacked Deck? The Bandits? (As in one-armed) One-Eyed Jacks? Hopefully, not the Black Jacks. We already have Blue Jackets, and Blackhawks. They would sound too similar to the existing two names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johngould21 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 13 hours ago, Lui's Knob said: Another team in the desert. Perfect. My sentiments exactly! Watch for this franchise to be pleading poverty in less than 3 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Shotgun Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 25 minutes ago, johngould21 said: My sentiments exactly! Watch for this franchise to be pleading poverty in less than 3 years. My gut feeling is they'll be a fail as well once the novelty wears off around town. Hotels will purchase season tickets to offer tickets to guests in package deals but it all seems too transient to build a solid fan base around. Rivalries could develop quickly with the California teams which might help local interest but face it Vegas doesn't seem like a hotbed of hockey. It all seems to too contrived by the NHL to place a team into the mecca of gambling and sports betting as a showpiece. Time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamJamIam Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Word is the leading team name at the moment is the Black Knights. Bettman is an idiot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johngould21 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 3 minutes ago, SamJamIam said: Word is the leading team name at the moment is the Black Knights. Bettman is an idiot... Check, but tell that to those other 30 teams that get to share $500M, he's in the HHOF in their minds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägermeister Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 30 minutes ago, SamJamIam said: Word is the leading team name at the moment is the Black Knights. Bettman is an idiot... He's making the league records amount of money and rapidly increasing it's fan base. Argue his decisions all you want (I hate most of them myself), but the guy isn't an idiot. He is stubborn, but a very effective businessman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson-JH Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Wow, a lot of haters here for Vegas.. I on the other hand, am very excited about this and I will get to see my Canucks every time when they are in town!! For the love of God, please do not use Black Knights as the official name! T__T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson-JH Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 6 hours ago, johngould21 said: My sentiments exactly! Watch for this franchise to be pleading poverty in less than 3 years. Oh please, we are further north and colder than Phoenix, Anaheim, and LA in the winter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johngould21 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 3 hours ago, Jägermeister said: 1 hour ago, Crimson-JH said: Oh please, we are further north and colder than Phoenix, Anaheim, and LA in the winter! Don't get me started on Phoenix, but please do get back to me in year two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fakename70 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Too many people giving Seattle unearned credit for having their act together enough to be considered a viable NHL city - by one way or the other - anytime soon. I'm no genius, but, I'm pretty sure the very first order of business is to at least have a 200 x 85 for a team to play in. The city council squashed that one with authority a month or so ago. And, I'm still not convinced the league will still be as keen to enter that market if it means housing a franchise in a rink located in the suburbs that no one outside of the Puget Sound/PNW/Lower Mainland region has even heard of. The city has been jerking around with this issue for almost a decade and lost its then-41 year-old NBA franchise partly because of it. How else to explain Las Vegas jumping to the head of the queue for NHL Expansion in seemingly such short order? There's still a strong sentiment that the NHL and NBA will continue to wait around for them to get their you-know-what together. Hate to say it, but, I think they're completely delusional. Its not as if brand new arenas aren't being built elsewhere. Oh, and, am I the only one who finds it both amusing and odd to see people in Vancouver forecasting failure for the Vegas NHL expansion franchise when they - for whatever reason - found themselves without their NBA expansion franchise after a mere 6 seasons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VegasCanuck Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 11 hours ago, Cerridwen said: What are they gonna call them? The Flush? Stacked Deck? The Bandits? (As in one-armed) One-Eyed Jacks? The Nevada Nympho's! I thought we had all decided on that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VegasCanuck Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 9 hours ago, Johnny Shotgun said: My gut feeling is they'll be a fail as well once the novelty wears off around town. Hotels will purchase season tickets to offer tickets to guests in package deals but it all seems too transient to build a solid fan base around. Rivalries could develop quickly with the California teams which might help local interest but face it Vegas doesn't seem like a hotbed of hockey. It all seems to too contrived by the NHL to place a team into the mecca of gambling and sports betting as a showpiece. Time will tell. You have no idea how many hockey fans are in Vegas. The whole population is imported from other parts of North America. NY, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Vancouver, all strong hockey cities. Las Vegas is unique market and will do fine. Arizona would be doing better if they never moved out of downtown Phoenix. For all those of you who have never been to a game in Glendale (I have), the arena is well out of the regular population centers and takes time to get to. The best thing that could happen to them was that Glendale canceled their lease forcing the to move either back to downtown Phoenix or out of State which is about 50/50 at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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