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2016-17 NHL Season: Happy 100th Birthday, National Hockey League


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17 hours ago, HedleyLamarr said:

For what it's worth, PK Subban is the most popular Predators player, and by far.  Just walking around the arena last night, there's more Subban jerseys/shirts than any other player, he got the loudest cheer in the announcement of the starting lineup, and he gets the loudest cheers and "ooohs" whenever he has the puck.

 

Subban was exceedingly popular in Montreal, too, just not with the general manager who seems to think their arena is haunted by the ghost of Howie Morenz. Congratulations to the Nashville faithful for having real-ass talent to recognize and not just a score of plugs from Milwaukee.

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Why would the NHL playing an outdoor game with two of the least popular teams in the league?

The logic behind that decision is baffling. If any New York team could draw a large audience in an outdoor game it would be the Rangers.

At this point the NHL is just giving these outdoor games to anyone who wants one.

Let's just kill the classic and just play the one game in Ottawa.

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It's a typo. It will be Rangers-Sabres. Because if any team should host a Winter Classic on Long Island, it should be the Sabres (the Rangers' lease doesn't allow them to give up a home game, and it's not like there's a team on Long Island with a star player and history).

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1 hour ago, Solaris said:

Still, a strange match up to me.

The NHL really wanted to get one in New York City, and the Rangers are obviously the big draw of the three teams in the area. The problem is they're not allowed to give up a home game without risking millions of dollars in tax breaks (the Islanders and Devils don't have that issue with their leases, which is why those teams served as hosts at the games at Chase Headley Stadium a few years back). So to get the Rangers in a Winter Classic in New York, the options are Rangers at Islanders, Rangers at Devils, or Rangers "at" someone else. Apparently the league decided that the Sabres would be a bigger draw for NBC than the Isles or Devils, and since the Sabres play in New York State, having them serve as the home team on Long Island wouldn't be as big a stretch as, say, the Flyers or Caps or Bruins even though those teams are closer to Queens than Buffalo is. The league will spin it as a nod to the 10th anniversary of the first Winter Classic in Buffalo, but that's BS.

 

(It's possible that the city and MSG worked something out allowing the Rangers to serve as the home team, but I haven't heard anything like that. And if that were the case, I'd image they would've picked a sexier opponent than the Sabres since they wouldn't have to make a case for an out-of-town team serving as the home team.)

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It makes a :censored: -ton of money. The end.

On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said:

For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA.

PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12.

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On 3/15/2017 at 7:26 PM, Solaris said:

Why would the NHL playing an outdoor game with two of the least popular teams in the league?

The logic behind that decision is baffling. If any New York team could draw a large audience in an outdoor game it would be the Rangers.

At this point the NHL is just giving these outdoor games to anyone who wants one.

Let's just kill the classic and just play the one game in Ottawa.

I've long predicted that eventually the NHL will go to the other extreme, by just giving every team one outdoor game per season (or maybe even two - one home and one away, to allow every team to actually host one). That still seems much more likely than doing away with them.

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3 hours ago, McCarthy said:

 

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haha what a bunch of stupid a******s!

Last place and 2nd to last??? I would have automatically put the Jackets 4th because I know my Flyers and the Islanders would both take steps back and I know that Jersey and Carolina are not good.

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I think at this point it's more that he keeps saying they're bad and keeps antagonizing their fans, usually by reusing Chapo Trap House/Weird Twitter jokes about brain diseases and large adult sons, plus the intellectual dishonesty of deciding they're bad because their coach hurt his feelings and then working backward from his conclusion while claiming to be objective. I see why it's a real pain in the ass for Jackets fans.

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