Canucks vs Senators - Postponed

[Alflives]

2 minutes ago, Teeje said:

Just a load of bull this is.  The League wants all Canadian teams at full capacity so to compensate the lower earning teams with revenue sharing. The canucks even at 50% capacity is still more than Buffalo draws.  Why is Buffalo still playing???  

NHL Attendance Report - 2021-22

Season:                               2021-222020-212019-202018-192017-182016-172015-162014-152013-142012-132011-122010-112009-102008-092007-082006-072005-062004-052003-042002-032001-022000-01                         

 

2021-22 Attendance		Home				Road			Overall
RK	TEAM	GMS	TOTAL	AVG	PCT	GMS	AVG	PCT	GMS	AVG	PCT
1	Buffalo	18	155,500	8,638	45.3	16	15,576	88.2	34	11,903	64.7
2	Ottawa	14	161,641	11,545	60.3	15	14,600	80.1	29	13,125	70.3
3	Arizona	15	175,771	11,718	68.4	17	15,191	84.2	32	13,563	77.0
4	San Jose	17	207,174	12,186	69.4	18	15,562	85.2	35	13,922	77.7
5	Anaheim	19	243,816	12,832	74.7	17	16,227	90.4	36	14,435	82.3
6	New Jersey	19	247,891	13,046	79.0	16	16,003	89.2	35	14,398	83.9
7	Florida	21	285,364	13,588	79.7	13	16,338	89.2	34	14,640	83.5
8	Winnipeg	17	234,554	13,797	92.0	16	15,511	86.4	33	14,628	89.0
9	Los Angeles	20	283,691	14,184	77.8	14	16,719	91.1	34	15,228	83.3
10	Calgary	11	170,024	15,456	80.1	21	15,346	83.6	32	15,384	82.4
11	Columbus	16	253,293	15,830	87.3	16	15,079	83.8	32	15,455	85.5
12	Edmonton	16	258,280	16,142	86.6	18	15,011	84.8	34	15,543	85.7
13	NY Rangers	15	242,427	16,161	89.8	20	16,651	90.5	35	16,441	90.2
14	Carolina	13	219,308	16,869	90.3	18	16,235	89.1	31	16,501	89.6
15	Toronto	19	320,913	16,890	89.8	13	15,421	84.9	32	16,293	87.8
16	Detroit	19	324,639	17,086	87.6	15	17,050	91.2	34	17,070	89.1
17	Nashville	15	256,724	17,114	100.0	20	16,821	91.6	35	16,947	95.0
18	Seattle	19	325,869	17,151	100.3	14	16,028	89.3	33	16,674	95.5
19	Colorado	15	257,708	17,180	95.4	15	17,106	92.0	30	17,143	93.7
20	Pittsburgh	17	292,430	17,201	94.6	16	17,178	93.4	33	17,190	94.0
21	NY Islanders	12	207,060	17,255	100.8	16	15,840	87.3	28	16,446	92.9
22	St. Louis	17	294,100	17,300	95.6	17	17,451	91.6	34	17,375	93.6
23	Philadelphia	15	264,127	17,608	90.1	19	14,755	81.6	34	16,014	85.5
24	Boston	16	285,600	17,850	100.0	14	15,662	84.7	30	16,829	92.7
25	Dallas	16	287,602	17,975	97.0	14	14,938	83.4	30	16,558	90.7
26	Chicago	16	288,624	18,039	91.5	18	17,207	95.3	34	17,598	93.4
27	Vegas	21	379,017	18,048	103.9	16	16,297	89.7	37	17,291	97.6
28	Vancouver	16	296,443	18,527	98.0	18	15,633	85.1	34	16,995	91.2
29	Minnesota	14	259,961	18,568	95.4	18	15,974	89.8	32	17,109	92.4
30	Washington	18	334,314	18,573	100.4	16	15,111	83.8	34	16,943	92.7
31	Montreal	16	298,375	18,648	87.7	18	15,505	85.3	34	16,984	86.5
32	Tampa Bay	18	343,656	19,092	100.0	18	16,443	88.1	36	17,767	94.1

This was our owner, and not the league.  Bill Daly said only yesterday the game was on.  Our owner nixed the game.  He wants full capacity.  

[Teeje]

4 minutes ago, Alflives said:

This was our owner, and not the league.  Bill Daly said only yesterday the game was on.  Our owner nixed the game.  He wants full capacity.  

Why would FA nix the game?  That would be like Russian Roulette!  He may not get the opportunity to make the game up. Maybe his financial advisor informed him that he could claim the loss of revenue and claim 51% plus back in taxes!

 

[lmm]

5 hours ago, N4ZZY said:

I don’t think it’s the league’s choice. But that’s not confirmed. 

 

Rumors are that Aquilini cancelled/postponed the game. Not making money, and who can blame him. At the end of the day this is a business for the man, and having it at half capacity just ain’t cutting it for him. But hey, I figured that maybe 50 percent is better than 0. 

 

As a result of just pushing games back, the team is going to have a ton of games in a short period of time, just like they did a few years back, and they didn’t do that well in that spell of games if I recall correctly. So I can’t imagine that’s going to be to the team’s advantage. 

 

Well, this season might as well be a write off, considering everything that’s going on with players (Petey in particular), the world, covid issues, etc, etc. It was depressing when we didn’t have games at all, so I guess can still follow along with some sort of hockey being played in the US - those crazy bastards down south. 

 

that is kind of what I was thinking

I heard Bill Daly say the game would go ahead, yesterday on Donnie +D

it seems short sighted to 

A cram too many games in at the end of the season

B head into this road trip rusty

 

makes me wonder if JR is on board

 

Maybe JR thinks , ' oh no, I work for a penny wise pound foolish owner'

or

maybe JR thinks its better to pull the plug now, so he can sell at the deadline and do a proper build

 

those would be my thoughts if I were in JR's shoes

 

the real problem with the JB era was that Jim was always trying to speed things up

maybe JR sees this quick start as a detriment to his long term success

With the team playing uncharacteristically hot, its almost like he took over the 2017 Vegas Knights without all the sweet advantages

[lmm]

 

I starteed a thread but was beaten to the puch

this was my thought 6 hours ago

osted 6 hours ago

Can that tag be changed to NOT Gameday?

 

I just watched yesterdays Donnie and Dhali show and heard guest Bill Daly.

Daly said he thought the game would go ahead because Ottawa needed to play games or get too far behind the rest of the league.

today the game gets postponed.

It is posted on NHL,com and the headline is NHL postpones game.

the Canucks are part of the NHL.

So my question is, is this the Canucks decision, the Senators, or that of the league?

A look at the standings and GP the Lightning and Knights have 36-37 GP with 2 PPD 

at the other end the Isle and Sens have played 28 and 29 games the Sens have had 10 PPD

 

The Canucks are in the middle in a group of 11 teams that have played 34 games. they have had 6 games PPD

 

Daly said that at this point they have rescheduled all of the PPD games but that the are running out of RUNWAY to reschedule games

that was before VAN-OTT gets postponed today

 

At what point do Ottawa and the Isles turn into Vancouver and Calgary of last season , playing games after the playoffs have started?

that was a bad look, and one you would thinkj the NHL would not like to repeat

 

thoughts?

[Toyotasfan]

I think we’ll do better than the Alberta teams are doing on their respective road trips.

[I.Am.Ironman]

This is going to make the trade deadline interesting.. We could get to the trade deadline with a 10 game disparity between teams. It will throw a wrench into the decision making process of management.

[N4ZZY]

1 hour ago, I.Am.Ironman said:

This is going to make the trade deadline interesting.. We could get to the trade deadline with a 10 game disparity between teams. It will throw a wrench into the decision making process of management.

Further evidence that this season is an absolute gong show. 

 

[bad alice french]

8 hours ago, N4ZZY said:

Further evidence that this season is an absolute gong show. 

 

...and last year... and the year before... so fed up.

I live a 20 minute drive from the US border. Right across that line, life goes on in a relatively normal manner. Why are we so different?

[Alflives]

3 minutes ago, bad alice french said:

...and last year... and the year before... so fed up.

I live a 20 minute drive from the US border. Right across that line, life goes on in a relatively normal manner. Why are we so different?

Same reason why in the US they have 3x our death rate for Covid.  They have freeDUMBs.  

[Gawdzukes]

12 hours ago, lmm said:

 

I starteed a thread but was beaten to the puch

this was my thought 6 hours ago

osted 6 hours ago

Can that tag be changed to NOT Gameday?

 

I just watched yesterdays Donnie and Dhali show and heard guest Bill Daly.

Daly said he thought the game would go ahead because Ottawa needed to play games or get too far behind the rest of the league.

today the game gets postponed.

It is posted on NHL,com and the headline is NHL postpones game.

the Canucks are part of the NHL.

So my question is, is this the Canucks decision, the Senators, or that of the league?

A look at the standings and GP the Lightning and Knights have 36-37 GP with 2 PPD 

at the other end the Isle and Sens have played 28 and 29 games the Sens have had 10 PPD

 

The Canucks are in the middle in a group of 11 teams that have played 34 games. they have had 6 games PPD

 

Daly said that at this point they have rescheduled all of the PPD games but that the are running out of RUNWAY to reschedule games

that was before VAN-OTT gets postponed today

 

At what point do Ottawa and the Isles turn into Vancouver and Calgary of last season , playing games after the playoffs have started?

that was a bad look, and one you would thinkj the NHL would not like to repeat

 

thoughts?

Hey Imm, I don't think we're anywhere near the point of last year ... yet. While the situation is definitely alarming I figure if they start allowing full capacity by even Feb 7th it'll be no problem whatsoever. The Olympic break starts Feb 2nd so if we could hypothetically play make-up games on the 8th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 16th 18th, and 20th that would make up 7 of the 12 (7 games currently + 5 more Canada games between now and Feb 1st) postponed games. That would leave 5 games to make up over the rest of the year. They can also cancel the All Star game and push the season end date a week or two, so that's totally doable without the schedule becoming unreasonable.

 

As far as who cancelled the game it simply doesn't matter at all. It was done in conjunction for reasons above our purview and all parties signed off on it. It's cancelled, that's what matters.

 

As you mention Vancouver is just fine in their number of games played, the sit right in the upper middle of the pack. The biggest problem for the NHL will be the Canadian team(s) with the least amount of games played. Right now that will be solely Ottawa with 28. Toronto is next at 32, and Calgary 33. Obviously Ottawa is going to have a tough time .., maybe it's good they are sucking anyway as the NHL can just get their games "done". The Isles should be fine in the long run.

 

I'll include my screen shot of the slot created by the cancelled Olympics.

 

 

 

 

 

[GB5]

All work and no hockey makes GB5 a very dull boy.

[appleboy]

I don't think the owners have the ability to shut a game down. Only the league does. They could ask, I suppose but the league does the schedule and there is more than one team involved. 

[Alflives]

Just now, appleboy said:

I don't think the owners have the ability to shut a game down. Only the league does. They could ask, I suppose but the league does the schedule and there is more than one team involved. 

This game getting postponed is 100% from our owner.  He’s expecting this Omicron wave to be fast to come and fast to go.  So he’s hoping for a full rink in mid February.  This is the same owner that zipped up the purse on Benning, so we lost Tanev and Tofu.  

[Russ]

Looks like mcdonald's didn't get the memo 

[appleboy]

1 hour ago, Alflives said:

This game getting postponed is 100% from our owner.  He’s expecting this Omicron wave to be fast to come and fast to go.  So he’s hoping for a full rink in mid February.  This is the same owner that zipped up the purse on Benning, so we lost Tanev and Tofu.  

OK