The_Admiral

I think there's more honor in half-taking up a team from afar because you like their players/uniforms/city than there is in adopting a team because you move near them and they're there. I don't want sports Stockholm Syndrome.

It usually doesn't work, either. I bought season tickets to the Diamondbacks when I moved to Tempe in an attempt to gain a rooting interest in them, and I ended up actually disliking the team even more once the season was over. It was just too strange wearing my Giants gear for a series vs San Francisco, then swapping to D Backs gear two days later when they played the Brewers or whoever.

Well, weren't you there when the D-Bags adopted Caveman Baseball and were beaning hitters and starting fights for imaginary injustices? I'd have to think even natives found that team reprehensible.

See, I would think the opposite because if hockey is your thing, why wouldn't you want to help the local team flourish and celebrate with the people around you?

I dunno, maybe I don't like the people around me. You don't seem to like Hawks fans very much. Maybe I don't have delusions of grandeur about the importance of my support and just want to like who I like without crediting myself for helping them to flourish. I mean, I was banging the drum for a return to Winnipeg when everyone else wanted the Coyotes to go to Hamilton, but I haven't done anything to help the Jets other than the pennies they get from my Gamecenter subscription. I'm not important.

I want to note here that the AHL's website is THEahl.com, which reminds me of the Onion article about how cybersquatters had reduced the NHL to registering "nhlhockeysports.com."

Anyway, I think it's pretty cool that the Manchester Monarchs are a game away from winning the league's championship and subsequently getting demoted to the ECHL. I don't think this is what the promotion/relegation buttmonkeys had in mind. Congratulations, New Hampshire! Now here's some crap.

The eight games the California teams don't play should count as losses in the final standings, since they're basically forfeiting those games because playing them is too hard.

I think there's more honor in half-taking up a team from afar because you like their players/uniforms/city than there is in adopting a team because you move near them and they're there. I don't want sports Stockholm Syndrome.

I do as HedleyLamarr tells me.

Also, a little presumptuous to type out "honour" when quoting an American there, Sportsnet.

Well, I mean, if their house style as a Canadian publication is to spell it "honour," then they have to do it that way no matter whose mouth it came out of, don't they? It's not a different word altogether.

There were never as many threads as there seemed to be; I just edited the title a lot and settled on this one once the thread/anti-thread nomenclature seemed to gain currency.

With all due respect to Fraser Davidson and his magical assembly line of graphic glory, I don't want every team's logo to look as if it were released nowadays.

I hope Scott Burnside didn't strain anything carrying all this water for Anthony LeBlanc.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/38341/coyotes-saga-continues-glendale-could-lose-twice-with-attempt-to-terminate-lease

Burnside was an Atlanta guy, right? No shock that his allegiances would fall here.

Commissioner Gary Bettman was asked by Canadian broadcaster Sportsnet if he was worried about the team. He said he’d be more concerned if he was a taxpayer in Glendale.

He’s right. Never mind season ticket holders or the specifics of the economics as they relate to the NHL franchise in Glendale; what company of any sort would enter into a relationship with this municipality?

This crap again. I dunno, maybe companies that don't require annual eight-figure subsidies? which I do believe still exist for now?

Suspension/termination would be death for franchise values. It's not an option.

What is an option is Bettman dipping into the revenue-sharing slush fund, the one the new CBA provides to aid needy (warm-weather) teams. The NHL could pay rent in Glendale in the short term until the Indians build the new Suns/Coyotes/ASU arena/casino.

The city drafted the agreement with a mention of the statute in question, so it turns out they did have an out clause all along.

"A restraining order, what are they going to do, keep us out of our building?"

str8 murked

Not one citizen of or even Arizona cares more about your crappy hockey team that's costing them who knows how much money more than the fire department who's job it is to SAVE LIVES.

Demonstrably false.

I'm not one to tut-tut people's decorum -- that's best left to Gothamite -- but the Coyote fans in attendance really conducted themselves poorly at this one, whether they were in the audience or addressing council. I know we all joke about how the democratic process is much more spirited in the United Kingdom and we're the ones hanging on to contrived manners, but the comparisons to a man dismembering his wife and the screaming and finger-waving at the mayor was out of line by any definition.

Rick Westhead ✔@rwesthead

Mayor Weiers: "I don't care how good a deal is. If you're breaking the law you're breaking the law. I don't care how good a deal it is."

breakin' the law, breakin' the law...breakin' the law, breakin' the law...

How about that, two wins tonight.

The Coyotes fans are booing the mayor for explaining his vote to kill the deal. And they're talking back to him as he tries to restore order.

This is wonderful.

OH NO I MISSED THIS BECAUSE I WAS WATCHING THE BLACKHAWKS TRYING TO TIE THE STANLEY CUP FINAL, THIS CRUEL WORLD

Sorry, someone finally lit a fire under the Blackhawks' ass, so I've had to commit to actual hockey. Let's see what I missed.

I thought the guy on the phone was in favor of ending the contract?

No, he's the guy who orchestrated the whole thing for the Coyotes.

Hey, Brandon Saad scored to put the Hawks up 2-1! Yes, Clown College has been more entertaining than the Stanley Cup Final involving my team.

"Walking straight and tall with leg braces"

Lololololol

Must have had a run-in with that husband who tears his wife's arm off.

"I support this team. You don't. They gave you tickets."

Maybe the next speaker will address the price of tea in China.

"I SHOW UP TO MORE GAMES THAN YOU DO? HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU PAY? I PAY MORE THAN YOU DO! IT'S YOUR FAULT!"

Things are getting a little salty between Rhonda Pierson and the mayor.

"Why should we go to litigation? Why can't we just get behind the Coyotes?"

Congratulations, lady, you've solved the legal system.

"We can't subsidize this arena. We're not Toronto, we're not LA."

Those cities' arenas are privately owned

And now lowriding?

It's the Hispanics, I tells ya!

No, it's the Russians with their britches down

OH GOD THEY'RE LETTING THE LITTLE GIRL TALK

"my name is Jillian...go Coyotes"

"...OKAY"

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