Sodboy13

On Friday, November 25th, the Coyotes will have a "Leftover Fest" as they host the Canucks. Fans in attendance will receive promotional items left over from previous games, because the giveaway was supposed to be for the first 10,000 fans, but 10,000 fans never showed up.

Blessing in disguise for my Bluenote brethren. I'm starting to get the feeling that if you put Matthew Hulsizer's and Ice Edge Holdings' capital together, you might be able to buy the Dayton Gems. Dollar Beer/Hot Dog/Pop/Probably Tickets Outside The Arena Saturday at the Jobber drew 13,381. I find it telling that I can't distinguish whether that's good or bad.

Jeez, why don't you broker another sponsorship agreement, ya turd. So many municipalities finding out about the shifty bookkeeping of sports the hard way. Of course the Panthers don't make any money, as far as you need to know. Neither do the Marlins.

6,738 announced at the Jobber tonight. On Saturday, they're undercutting what should be a money night for a middling franchise by making it $1 hot dog, pop, and beer night. Begging people to come to the arena on a weekend by offering dollar beers. Even CHL teams don't have to resort to that. Perhaps it'll all turn around on the 10th for John McCain Bobblehead Night, which sounds like something mean I made up, but of course it's real, because OTGDCoyotes.

I will say that Winnipeg vs Florida on a Halloween Monday night in Sunrise doesn't sound like the most enticing of match-ups to try and sell to the Panthers Red Zone at Lexus Ice at the BankAtlantic Center sponsored by Iams Dog Food presented by Bud Light. But yeah that looked pretty damn bad. However, it was 11,855. Beating out Phoenix, even with the tarped upper deck. Yeah, that's not even 11,855 if the Florida State Board of Elections is counting. That "We See Red" campaign sure makes for an easy setup. Yep, we sure do see it! On the upholstery of all your empty seats! For what it's worth (damn little, as it turns out!), Mockba walked up to the BankAtlantic Center for this game and scored a $260 seat on the glass for $50. From the box office.

Announced attendance tonight in Glendale was 6,948. Eagerly awaiting photographic corroboration.

Ever since they declined to release their already-made new third jersey, which is, as we know, a license to print money, I've been convinced that whoever is running the Stars right now is tanking them. Even if the team succeeds on the ice, they seem bound and determined to make that success not translate into success on the business side.

The worst part of that picture is that we're going to be seeing it repeated a year from now, while the Stars, Blues, or Blue Jackets are filling up Le Colisee.

Last season, the Coyotes had a Thursday home game against the Kings in October and drew something like 6,400. Movin' on up!

I know that a bad start can kill a team, but I fear that in Columbus, that could be literal this time around.

Decent turnout by Hawks fans for a Tuesday night in Glendale. They seem to handle the commute better than the locals do.

It's just like one of those "desert raves" from back in the nineties, only this time there's a Cabela's!

Hey, if it makes Craig James' head explode, I'm all for it.

There have probably been at least six "final and ultimate" deadlines to secure ownership since this whole debacle started. And yet, here we sit. If the NHL doesn't get their owner by early '12, they'll set a new deadline for, say, June of '12. This is known in American slang as "kicking the can down the road." So basically we could be here till the new Quebec City Arena is built before the NHL finally gives in and works out that nobody wants the Coyotes and that they have to move on.... There used to be a time when I believed there would be a critical point reached, wherein the league would have no choice but to release the Coyotes from Glendale. That time has long since passed.

There have probably been at least six "final and ultimate" deadlines to secure ownership since this whole debacle started. And yet, here we sit. If the NHL doesn't get their owner by early '12, they'll set a new deadline for, say, June of '12. This is known in American slang as "kicking the can down the road."

I don't think that follows at all. There is great demand for Maple Leafs tickets. That doesn't necessarily mean that any other team in the area would be able to capitalize on the unmet demand. Toronto Legacy should be breaking ground on that 30,000-seat indoor arena any day now.

No. Fake fake fake. Yes. It's just a couple of years old. Reebok changed the branding on their tags from "Rbk" to "Reebok" after the first year of the Edge overhaul, and then eliminated the vector logo this year. So it's overstock from a couple of seasons ago, not a counterfeit.

Crest is squished, just about everything on the back is misaligned, and there's no Reebok logo. But hey, cheap!

An 8 for speed, and a 1 for execution.

Blues Brothers 2000 wasn't that bad. It was a sequel to arguably the most iconic Chicago film, shot in Toronto to save on the budget. It was a PG sequel to an R film. It rankles the locals.

Oof. Dixie Square West. Maybe Dan Aykroyd will make another horrendous Blues Brothers sequel and trash the joint.

It's surprising to me because this isn't from a crowd shot, and it's not a local ad. It's an actor, in wardrobe, in a national campaign from the N-F-frickin'-L.

There's a DirecTV Sunday Ticket commercial featuring a guy in a Packers jersey, and I'm almost certain the jersey is counterfeit. The sleeve stripes are all incorrect widths, and they're sewn-in, when they should be screened. The fakes are so prevalent, they're actually showing up in advertisements for NFL property. I think we just went down the rabbit hole.

Does it count as astroturfing if the poster is obviously from one of the counterfeit operations?

And they'll get to witness a team significantly worse than the one no one's watched the past two years, since their only notable offseason moves have been retaining Yandle and Vrbata.