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  1. "This is truly a dream come true for me and my family," said Barroway. "I am extraordinarily grateful for the opportunity of a lifetime and look forward to working and solidifying a strong partnership with the Club's current ownership group."

    Umm...does this guy really know what he got himself into? And who calls owning the Phoenix Arizona Coyotes a "dream?"

    Well technically nightmares are still dreams...

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  2. I've been there on two occasions and both times I had a pleasant experience. Is it the Taj Mahal? No, of course not. But I never felt like I was in a cesspool either.

    I loved Shea and I know you did too Tank, but Shea was much grimier than the Coliseum still is today. I know they have sewage problems in the locker rooms but if they're going to stay for a while perhaps maybe they finally go about overhauling that problem?

  3. We are very excited to announce that our franchise name will change to Arizona Coyotes for the start of the 2014-15 NHL season. Becoming the Arizona Coyotes makes sense for us since we play our games in Glendale and the city is such a great partner of ours.

    Shouldn't that make them the Glendale Coyotes then? Heck, they probably should be considering the amount of money Glendale payed for them...

    A great partner? That's the understatement of ever.

  4. Lifelong Met fan. If the Rays moved here, I would never, ever, ever in a kajillion years abandon the Mets, no matter how pathetic and awful they happen to be.

    That said, I'd definitely welcome another team here and have three more chances to see the Mets each summer (being an AL team, it's not like they'd be playing them 18 times).

    A team could definitely work here population wise. The one thing the Rays would have going for them that the Devils and Nets didn't is that NYC and NYC Metro is first and foremost a baseball town. Baseball trumps all. Yes, the Giants have Super Bowls, the Knicks are a big draw, blah blah blah. Still trumped by baseball.

    But that's just population wise. In reality, even if on the one-in-a-billion chance the Mets and Yankees agreed to this, there wouldn't be enough fans of the Rays. It's been too long since you had three teams here, and now it's so entrenched that it just simply wouldn't work. Just because the Yanks, Dodgers, and Giants once all shared NY doesn't mean that in 2013 it would be a shoe-in.

    The Mets wouldn't even let the Yankees temporarily move their AAA team to Newark for one season to renovate their park in Scranton. You think this would happen?

  5. the only winter sport in town

    :blink:

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    Plus Huskies football and basketball. The latter has the most schedule overlap and serves a different market, but you can fit 10,000 for basketball at Hec Ed.

    Even still, I think the NHL could reliably cobble together 9-11,000 fans each night, no problem. I'd go twice and buy a jersey. I still don't get why that's preferable to 20,000 a night in Quebec, but whatevs.

    Oh come on. You know as well as I do that football isn't referred to as one of "the winter sports". I know, I know, it is still played after December 21st and you can potentially host a couple of playoff games, but that's basketball and hockey--the arena sports. It's baseball in the summer, football in the fall, the other two are "winter".

    And yes, there's college, but I meant pro. And college football is done save for a bowl game a little over a month into the NHL season anyway.

  6. Not that they'd ever be more popular than any existing team or a potential Sonics 2.0, but isn't it fair to say as nuts as Seattle's fans are about the teams they already have that they couldn't muster up at least some sort of following from scratch? Instant geographic rivalry with Vancouver, the only winter sport in town (at least for now), and all that?

    I'm not saying it WILL happen but COULDN'T it happen to some degree?

  7. In how many American markets with 3+ "top four+" teams (even the hockey hotbeds) does the NHL team have a legit claim in being #1 or #2?

    I can only really come up with Detroit.

    Denver could but that would only be "who's the best right now other than the Broncos", and not an "always" case.

    If they were to get an NBA team I could make a case for Pittsburgh and even that is only because the Pirates have been so awful for two decades now (I know they're good this year). Historically though, the Pirates would still trump the Pens.

    Any other 3-big 4 cities, were they to acquire the missing one however, I don't think it would happen in.

  8. Part of me almost wonders if attempting to move the team to Seattle is the NHL's attempt to trojan horse a temporary contraction through. "Oh look the arena isn't ready so we're going to have to suspend operations." Mind you, this theory means they believe they can convince a labor judge that Quebec is completely unviable and unready as a market, which in reality strikes me as unlikely barring the presence of a very corrupt judge and the exchange of a significant sum of money.

    In this instance, a non-corrupt judge would be the unlikely thing.

    It was confirmed on the Hotstove tonight that if the Coyotes do not have a deal in place by July 2nd, the team is moving to...

    Seattle.

    This once again begs the question of what someone who obviously dislikes Canada is doing in charge of a HOCKEY league. Quebec City would be the far better and more feasible market.

    But we moved Columbus to the east! We can't ever change it again you guys...

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  9. REDACTED

    Poor guy. Just the sound of utter defeat in his voice. Not his fault.

    That's pretty sad that the team is calling people who once lived there, but I agree, can't blame the sales rep.

    I got a call recently from the Padres if I wanted to get a ticket plan on my account. I told the guy I never had an account, to which he said something like "oh well actually because you bought tickets to us last year you're now automatically an account holder". I told him I moved back to NJ so it wasn't happening, obviously he didn't know that. I'm just harping on the "are you really THAT desperate" angle.

  10. I'm hearing that KeyArena and the Tacoma Dome both do and don't have ice plants. I'm really glad we're having these discussions, trying to ascertain whether an 11,000-seat basketball-specific venue or the Buckminister Fuller OmniBarn can indeed make ice. NHL, I hate so much about the things you choose to be.

    But that's what makes this thread so great!

  11. Cant find pictures, but the panthers played the oilers in 1996. And 1995 marks the only time that the panthers played the gastineau style jets

    That game was played at Clemson and featured the infamous Bubby Brister play:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=429_0ybqZOU#t=407s

    He may as well have just handed the ball off to Mills.

    And my note to Mr. Tom Hammond: You really only need to track the non-embarrassing moments of Jets history. Trust me. It's much easier that way.

    The video link you posted is the wrong game

    I can only find it as a "last week flashback" from that game vs. Miami. I thought I copied the "time in video" link. Guess it doesn't work. Go to the 6:47 mark...

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    It was the first win in Panthers history to boot.

  12. Cant find pictures, but the panthers played the oilers in 1996. And 1995 marks the only time that the panthers played the gastineau style jets

    That game was played at Clemson and featured the infamous Bubby Brister play:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=429_0ybqZOU#t=407s

    He may as well have just handed the ball off to Mills.

    And my note to Mr. Tom Hammond: You really only need to track the non-embarrassing moments of Jets history. Trust me. It's much easier that way.

  13. Yes but MechaShanahan deemed the blast from North Korea was a hockey play, therefore legal.

    Something better happen soon, this thread is getting dumb.

    Yeah, I may have laid the foundation for that tangent...my bad.

    It was bound to happen after so many years of league ownership and umpteen charlatan ownership groups. Don't feel bad.

    That was tongue-in-cheek...

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