Sodboy13

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.

I don't think that's a knockoff. Looks like a Majestic replica.

That place really has some variety. Where else can you get jerseys for "Miami Hot" and "Miamii Heat"?

Why do so many counterfeiters sell "Saint Patrick's Day" versions of jerseys? Is there seriously market demand for these things?!? Apparently there is. I've seen plenty of the bootleg St. Patrick's Blackhawks jerseys over the past couple of years. This past winter I was a bit surprised to see an official St. Pat's replica jersey in the front window of the Blackhawks store on Michigan Avenue - one designed exactly like the most popular counterfeit version, no less. I asked the clerk about it, and he told me that, yes, the green jersey was a direct response to the fakes; apparently, team and/or league officials saw so many of these green knockoffs during the victory parade, they decided to make their own officially licensed version of it. (Because, hey, what's the counterfeiter going to do, sue them for IP theft?) I'm convinced this is why the Blackhawks have decided to discontinue their fauxback thirds, as that seems to have become the most popular choice among the "$40 on eBay" crowd. Yes, a third jersey is supposed to create additional revenue, but I'm sure that trained eyes in the Blackhawks' organization couldn't help but notice the tens of thousands of dollars in lost revenue in the seats at the United Center every game.

KING-TV reporter Chris Daniels is reporting Chicago Wolves owner Don Levin is part of a group interested in putting an NHL arena in Bellevue, Washington. All is extremely preliminary at this point, but Levin's no slouch.

Oh God, it'd be the Grand Rapids Rampage all over again. *shudders* I don't see why that's necessarily a bad thing, the Rampage were always one of the better supported AFL franchises. Once the "big AFL" hit, Grand Rapids didn't even bother to compete, fielded consistently horrible teams, and drew announced attendances in the 5,000-6,000 range. It got dire there the second that NBC deal happened, and they still haven't brought back the franchise post-bankruptcy, even though everything's operating on an af2 level nowadays.