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Yeah, I don't understand how this is legal under Arizona's Gift Clause with the city still giving a private owner $17 million a year. There's gotta be some end-around in the details, or this thing just gets crushed again. Mark my words, if this sale to Jamison goes through, the team will be in this situation again before you graduate college. I will bet actual monies.

Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs thinks "Phoenix is a Dallas". I think Mr. Jacobs fails to realize that Glendale isn't a Phoenix.

The first time I had a fried egg on top of a burger, I realized that the chef in that game was the one with the real problem. Nah, he was just ahead of his time. Yeah, but in the game, he was trying to keep the fried eggs away from the burgers. And pickles, too! Man, that chef sucked.

You think you're seeing lack of respect now, just wait until the CBA meetings.

The first time I had a fried egg on top of a burger, I realized that the chef in that game was the one with the real problem.

Unless you're talking about an AHL team, your seating diagrams say otherwise, Chachi.

500,000 people. That's 12,000 a game. The "best case scenario" involves being dead last in league attendance by a wide margin. Keep on reaching for the stars, Yvonne. These people are dumber than dog .

Go, Coyotes, go.

Yeah, but the team hasn't been out of the first round in Phoenix. Who knows how they'll react ticket wise to the second round, Nashville or not. Depends on if there's construction on Loop 101. Or if it's a weeknight. Or if "The Voice" is on.

This time, they swear it's Greg Jamison, not Garry Jamieson. Whoever it is, I wonder if he'll be wearing the same hat and jersey they gave Matthew Hulsizer last year, when he was the designated playoff prop.

Wow. That took a week.

Bear in mind that the forthcoming lockout could give the league another full year of wiggle room.

Tickets for the Islanders-Devils exhibition game went on sale today - here's the seating map on the ticket page: Oh Jesus H. That's not a long-term solution for the Islanders, that's KeyArena lite. Who builds a basketball arena in 2012?

Yes. The word was that Dustin Byfuglien signed his contract extension with the Thrashers (on February 15th) because he was told by ownership that all signs pointed to the team moving to Winnipeg, bringing him back closer to home where he could drunkenly boat about and whatnot. To some degree, this might also explain the bottom dropping out of the team's performance during that February.

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I'm guessing the dogs count toward the attendance figures, then.

Yeah, there's no way anything concrete gets announced before the Coyotes' season is officially over. Today's presser will be all about laying out plans, intentions, and what they hope to accomplish. No mention will be made of any specific team, lest ownership even faintly come across as the second coming of the Hamilton Predators. And besides that, I'm still willing to put even odds on them not getting the Coyotes.

More fun with Google Translate, from the comments: Don't even have the team yet, and they're already acting like they lost in the postseason. Now that's a Canadian hockey market!

That was a brilliant identity all-around. Shame that it was relatively short-lived.

Yeah, KeyArena is just not good.

No, that's Moordix.

But they were going to build such a beautiful facility in Dixmoor...

I don't think he understands how the internet works, to be honest.

They've been de facto home games the past few years. I think there are also lots of transplants in the area; Bears-Cardinals games in Tempe tended to be awash in navy and orange.

The licensed product if I had the available funds. If not maybe I'd get a t-shirt/sweat shirt or two of my favorite team. Right. I think the problem lies in the fact that the vast majority of the sports-apparel-purchasing population is ignorant to the devil in the details. They just go "Oh, it's so cheap because it comes right from the overseas supplier," or "it's a great deal on eBay," and they don't notice the difference in details or quality, no matter how glaring we jersey nerds may find it. I have a friend who bought several baseball jerseys from a bootleg site, and he had me take a look at them. I pointed out the inaccuracies in design and construction I saw, but they were things he - and probably 99% of the non-obsessive public outside of this board - wouldn't notice. The problem here is on several fronts. Jersey prices keep spiraling upward at a time when most people's paychecks are not, the jersey is now seen as an "essential" accessory of sports fandom in a way it wasn't 10 or 20 years ago, and teams and leagues (except for the Canadiens) haven't gotten out in front of this. They haven't marketed directly to fans to explain why that $50 jersey on eBay isn't "worth it", and seem to be ignoring the revenue problem that's filling their arenas nightly. I don't think the average consumer is like loogodude, who is just Hard Trollin' at this point. But many are ignorant to the problem, and I think teams and leagues need to do a far better job addressing it.