The_Admiral

The good thing about going with that doofy Polar Bears choice is that if this doesn't work or a better location becomes available (I still think the best thing to do is to sell the team and affiliate with the Wolves, O'Hare being one of the only U.S. airports that flies direct to Winnipeg; maybe if the Blues find some couch change they can buy the team and put it in Peoria or Chucktown), that way you're not getting rid of the Manitoba Moose a second time. I have doubts about Winnipeg supporting two pro hockey teams.

VEGAS BABY, WOOOOOOO!!!! VAY-GIS! VAY-GIS! VAY-GIS! VAY-GIS!

https://news.vice.com/article/nevadas-lake-mead-is-at-its-lowest-level-ever-and-federal-authorities-say-its-going-to-get-worse?utm_source=vicenewsfb

California's record-breaking drought — the worst in over a thousand years — has captured headlines. But across the western United States, high temperatures and meager amounts of snowfall are causing havoc.

And it might be the sign of a new normal in the West.

Water levels in Nevada's Lake Mead, which powers the Hoover Dam and supplies water and power to tens of millions, dropped to historic lows this morning. According to the US Bureau of Reclamation, which built and manages hundreds of dams in the West, water levels at Lake Mead dipped to 1,080.07 feet, just below last August's record of 1,080.19 feet.

According to Reuters, the Bureau projects that water levels will continue to fall through at least the end of May, when it says levels could drop to 1,073 feet — far below the record high of 1,206 feet reached in the 1980s.

Cheap hydroelectric power and hockey fans are both plentiful to le nord-est.

Special anti-thread mention for Puck Daddy and their lack of copy editors:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/penguins-ceo-says-gm--coach--crosby-and-malkin-all-safe-144434831.html

Johnston was brought in to make the Penguins a better playoff team; instead, they existed more quickly than they ever did under Dan Bylsma.

I suppose you could argue that they had a fleeting existence in this year's playoffs, but that's a little more profound than I'm comfortable with. I think he meant they exited quickly.

There's rumored to be an out clause if Ratner gets tired of paying the Isles to exist.

He complained about the black alternates, celebrated when they were retired, and then toward the end of this year, said it was ridiculous that the Isles weren't going to wear white at home one last time. He should post here.

Howie Rose is pissed off about

His wife likes it.

That's basically the Ducks' color scheme minus orange, which makes perfect sense: Foley went to West Point and wants to call this team the Black Knights as well, while Brian Burke took a field trip to West Point in '06 and came back proclaiming "we're gonna be big and tough like Army now we're the army pew pew pew pew pew."

The standalone D is better than the full wordmark, but the new sweaters, with orange as the secondary color instead of beige, are somehow even worse than the previous set. At least the Ducks were just bland and soulless before. Now they have weird phantom yokes and side panels and mismatching socks.

Stopped following this thread for a while, came back to a couple pages of Hartford Yard Goats discussion. Of course I did.

There's something weird about the Mets' identity where colored uniforms just don't work for them like you'd expect them to. Orange numbers, grey numbers, blue shirts, black shirts, it all looks off to me.

Copperplate is a good font, but not when you compress it the way the Warriors do.

Officials debated over the names to be put on the ballot, taking suggestions from residents including "Lakehead" and "The Lakehead". Predictably, the vote split between the two, and "Thunder Bay" was the victor. The final tally was "Thunder Bay" with 15,870, "Lakehead" with 15,302, and "The Lakehead" with 8,377.

Why didn't they have a runoff between Lakehead with or without The? This is so Canadian.

Thunder Bay always seemed like a pipe dream to me. It's too remote.

Weird little place, being on Eastern Time while west of Milwaukee and Chicago. Sunset is at 8:27 tonight!

Nick Boynton got himself out of doing radio commentary for a Coyotes-Sabres game by getting drunk and biting a cop.

A gorilla? Can we trust Europeans to handle that maturely?

lol at the mental picture of a bunch of ululating kooks rolling into a city of opulence in their busted Toyota Tundras. It'll be just like that time I crashed a confirmation party at Medinah Country Club, but with less ululating.

Whenever I see that name, I always want to believe that the arena is named after Chico Resch and so everyone there who watches the game is always like "OHHH, WOOOOOW, LOOKIT IM MAKE A MOVE THERE AND DAW HOLY SMOKES HE JUST WHOOOOOOOOAA THAT'S JUST GEEZ WOOOOOOOOOWWWWW"

I think Derrick Rose said it best when he said, "uhhh, who cares?" Move the intellectual property up to the NHL team and move the AHL franchise to whoever wants it.

Some of you guys are selling Milwaukee short. Wisconsin is a cold state with lots of interest in hockey, there's a much higher passion for spectator and participation sports per capita than other states, and the governor is a fetal-alcohol-lookin' dickhole who loves giving tax money to billionaires. If you ask me, the stage is set!

dung-chunga-dung-chunga-dung-chunga-dung-chunga-dung-chunga-dung-chunga-DUH DUHHHHHHHH BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

That they're mentioning "problem cities" in the first place is precisely why this is such a terrible idea.

Vue d'une loge corporative .

Elle date un peut ( 3 semaines ) mais que c'est beauuu

Il y a longtemps que je voulais voir un panoramique aussi clair .

Merci à la personne qui a pris cette photo

A view from a corporate box. It's a little dated (three weeks) but it's goooood. I've wanted to see a clear panorama for a long time. Thanks to the person who took this photo.

I love the white of the building and the snow against that bright clear blue you get in winter. So Nordic. C'est incroyable.

OVER ALMOST 9,000 seats is impressive in a month -- Winnipeg had 9,000 in ten minutes -- but this isn't going to work very well if it doesn't sell out every night, right? Right? Right?

Right?

In fairness, I think they legitimately needed a new barn for all the other stuff that arenas do, too, because touring acts were bypassing the Colisee for not having whatever specifications are needed for concert stages and stuff. The place doesn't even have air conditioning, does it?

Still, that doesn't excuse the way the NHL told a market that would deliver guaranteed mid-range revenues at worst to go screw itself.