The_Admiral

You forgot to say "Mr. Mara," unless that's just reserved for their weird bootlicker fans.

No one ever Coca-Colaed away their kid's college fund.

A new Tigers team should consider orange rather than yellow and black to set them apart from both the Tiger-Cats in town and the Bruins and Penguins in hockey. I did an old Tigers concept with orange, yellow, and steel blue. Call it Tiger Orange, Hamilton Yellow, and, well, Steel Blue for civic engagement, I don't know. I'd consider dropping red from the Nordiques and going back to the igloo-n designer's original vision of a fully blue team in opposition to the red Canadiens. I believe the NHL always should have stuck to its home base, but that doesn't mean not having outposts in Los Angeles, Dallas, or Tampa. This alignment stays north of I-64 but is still too big with three teams in not-particularly-hockey-mad Ohio. Kudos to you if you can see it through, though.

It was, but I think they still have a polygamist community up on the Arizona /Utah border. Did not know that about the space shuttle. Well, take "Challengers" off the nickname list.

What sort of jobs do the Warren Jeffs people have? I know most Utah Mormons just grind away as financial planners and accountants and stuff, but how do you afford building a giant house for your six wives in remote Arizona?

The polygamist Mormons actually live in far northern Arizona.

There's going to be a culture shock. In Utah, a "dirty soda" is when they put flavored syrup in a Coke. In hockey, a "dirty soda" is when you drag your teammate behind a bar, pin him to the ground, pull down his pants, and shoot a seltzer gun up his ass.

Outlaws? They send half their population to go work for the FBI and CIA.

The City Connects feel tied to Tim "Jackie Robinson" Anderson, so maybe they need a hiatus.

People were paying more attention to his other comment.

1 nothing wrong with me 2 nothing wrong with me 3 nothing wrong with me bwahhhhh let the poopy hit the floor let the poopy hit the floor

This dumb bastard actually dropped an "I'm so glad you reached out, I'm actually at capacity" about refunding tickets for a team that doesn't exist anymore. We gotta get him back in the game as soon as possible.

No one would have begrudged them a plain NHL sweater to hold up at the draft, but to drag it out over a year because Fanatics can't do anything except be given money is a joke.

I had a great idea during lunch to post Ryan Smith's logo concept based on his Jazz logo, which would just be the words "HOCKEY TEAM" in black athletic-block letters. Now I can't do that because he already did it. We're not done here, not by a long shot. EDIT: also, the Whalers moved out of Hartford without an official destination in place (what an indignity), and Karmanos still managed to draw the Flushing Toilet on a napkin somewhere in Michigan in time for the next season.

Brian Burke: "I had an idea: we pretend to be the Army and then Chris Pronger elbows everyone in the head" "Hey, that idea worked! I think I'll take a nap" [sleeps through 2008-2024] "hey hey uh wha ah ahhh what the hell's goin on I was just gonna go golfing there"

Is there another two-team market where the teams are NBA and NHL? It's not a configuration that comes to mind off the top of my head. Plenty of NFL + one of the other two, but that's still only partial overlap. Salt Lake City has the sort of demographics that the NHL likes to go after, but the problem is that that NHL-friendly demographic is deeply committed to the NBA. The Utah Jazz fanbase is much less given to writing about Kendrick Lamar lyrics; mostly they're just loud idiots who like rooting for their sports team. Again, I think there's going to be a major local/transplant fault line here with the hockey fans riding the SLUT to amazing craft breweries while the Mormons stick with the Jazz.

I get so tired of hearing "the NHL NEEDS to be in Phoenix." Or else what? Their RSN went out of business this year and people from other places will just watch their own teams. The NBA needs to be in Seattle more than the NHL needs to be in Phoenix and they're not there.

Adam Silver banning Donald Sterling made franchise values quadruple. How will terrible people benefit from this one?

Yeah, that's not a place for a hockey arena, that's a place for an office campus for something called "Telesystems Unlimited." Bullet dodged (but the Coyotes still probably should have moved to Hamilton).

Did some research and finally found the land they bought: https://www.google.com/maps/place/43°24'36.7"N+80°17'01.0"W/@43.4101914,-80.2861965,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d43.4101875!4d-80.2836216?entry=ttu This seems like it would have been a really terrible idea. Corel Centre II: Even Corellier.

Wasn't it like a big plot of land off an expressway interchange? Speaking of Copps renovations, I saw that after a series of moderately ambitious remodels that would put a whole new exterior around the seating bowl, they just settled for painting half of it black. They just find new layers of "what could have been" in that town, don't they?

The age of the hockey announcer is over. Now is the age of memes.

The league wasn't looking to expand in the 2000s, having overexpanded in the 1990s and paying the price for it with Lockout II: Expansion Fees Can't Paper Over Our Crap Anymore. Even if they were to expand, they wouldn't have expanded to Hamilton for the same reasons they wouldn't have to Winnipeg and didn't to Quebec City (how's that "deferred expansion" going, anyway?). After they wouldn't even let him move the lousy dead-ass Predators, the subterfuge of buying the Coyotes out of bankruptcy court and winning the eventual lawsuit was the only play he had left to make money on a Southern Ontario NHL team. Incidentally, I swear there were reports that Copps Coliseum was only to be a stopgap while they built a new arena in, of all places, Cambridge, roughly equidistant to Hamilton and Kitchener-Waterloo, but I can't find any sources. But why would I imagine that?

To put a finer point on it, it's a metropolitan area that's about 120 miles north to south and, I dunno, like 10 miles west to east. It's a long boi. This is the same problem South Florida has, where everything is either relatively nearby or requires long drives up and down one artery, which I think is worse than Phoenix's 360-degree sprawl. I don't have the stomach for "but all our REAL fans live in Provo!"