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Well, as we all know nothing makes sense when it comes to hockey business.

As well as for what passes for sports journalism, critical thinking, and blogs. Random bloggers with anonymous "sources" get way too much credit nowadays.

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2014/08/24/report-ahl-migration-west-could-begin-in-2015-16/

Some here. Found some yesterday too. Googled it, can't remember where. Reason why Denver Cutthroats and Arizona Sundogs ceased operations, because they were bought out.

It's only fitting that these teams get "farm" teams closer to home. Just wonder what kind of future is in store for some of these teams with a long AHL history. I could even see the Blue Jackets buying Lake Erie (would make sense).

What the is a Howlings.net and who the is Dave Gerry Cantlon?

There hasn't been word one about the Avs or Coyotes buying AHL teams anywhere else. And Occam's razor indicates that the reason Arizona and Denver "suspended operations" was because the Central Hockey League is burning down at the moment and those teams were kind of sort of not making money. The Sundogs were hovering around 2500 and Denver had dropped down to 1787. Thats a 40% drop from year one, BTW, for a team THAT MADE THE ING LEAGUE FINALS LAST SEASON.

Related: Sticking AHL teams in those towns looks to be a bad idea even by the standards of the Coyotes.

Any links to back up those rumors?

I think we're officially at the point of the program where some rebel soldiers storm the castle and behead the insane emperor for the good of the country.

I think it's fair to say the Panthers are in play now.

No arena and no owner in Las Vegas. No arena and no owner in Seattle. Meanwhile, in Québec City...

Why do I hate Detroit even more now that they aren't even in the same Conference as the Blues?

Lot more Las Vegas noise than I'd like right now.

Would this be Glendale relocated or expansion?

In my mind leaving the NCAA would severely hurt the non revenue sports of the P5 schools.

What makes you think the P5 schools care about their non-revenue sports?

They're convenient money pits if nothing else.

I don't think the CHL works anywhere. Not Canadian major-junior hockey, the other one with guys who can't crack the E.

Yeah, Denver gave up the ghost yesterday and St. Charles died a few months back.

Hawaii's boosters in the mafia have apparently been skipping payments.

If more WHA teams came in, we would've had the National Division, the World Division and an NFL-like schedule by now

LOL WUT.

What would happen if Maryland hadn't decided to join the Big TEN (B1G) and chose to stay in the ACC? Would Rutgers, Louisville, West Virginia, Cincinnati and UConn followed the footsteps like Pitt and Syracuse did to join?

No, because the ACC doesn't need to expand.

If he was talking about the SEC that would surely be welcomed and acceptable correct?

What would happen if Maryland hadn't decided to join the Big TEN (B1G) and chose to stay in the ACC? Would Rutgers, Louisville, West Virginia, Cincinnati and UConn followed the footsteps like Pitt and Syracuse did to join?

No, because the ACC doesn't need to expand.

Don't forget, they still have Tampa for the footprint.

My own observation is that the only way the new mods have been "inconsistent" is that the more visible and active moderation presence is inconsistent with the past anarchy that was permitted on much of the boards. In this case, inconsistency is very, very welcome.

What about the people who discovered this site because of the concepts section - for example me. Putting these suggested measures in won't stop plagiarism but it will stop bringing people to the site who may take great enjoyment in seeing some great concepts.

If people don't want their work stolen, then they should watermark it properly. IMO, responsibility shouldn't be with the people running this site but the concept creators themselves.

Perhaps a section about watermarking could be added to the new users guide? If it isn't already there.

Dude, watermarked concepts are being stolen as well.

I think the sacrifice of a small number of potential posters who would have only found this site through the concepts is worth protecting the intellectual property of all of its members. Especially in the days of Instagram.

The best solution to the main site comment problems remain "disable comments"

If the Big Ten was paring down teams they'd eject Maryland before tossing Purdue.

It would be pretty dumb if they tossed Maryland... Say this is 5 years down the road and Maryland is producing wins, attendance, etc

I, for one, welcome our new Alien Space Bat overlords. Aside from very brief periods of success, Maryland athletics are typified by sustained mediocrity and uniforms that make small children go blind.

and Purdue is in the basement like they have been.

I dance a small jig.

Who would you take?

Purdue.

Maryland was with the ACC since the beginning and they chose to leave.

The Big Ten's quest for markets and financial assistance had nothing to do with Maryland's decision making process I am sure. Regardless of them being a perpetual weak sister in the conference.

Think of it like this... Would you take an aging veteran over a rising rookie? Chances are you won't.

Maryland has the better part of a century playing major college sports. Boise State or Louisville (retch) would be your rising rookie. Maryland's another aging veteran who used to double as the sick man of the ACC.

If the Big Ten was paring down teams they'd eject Maryland before tossing Purdue.

I can't find Premier League club crests on this site (except Blackburn). Can anyone direct me to them?

Nope. The league sent Chris a cease and desist order years ago.

i find this obsurd, wikipedia still uses them under the terms of its fair use policy, so why cant chris,

Wikipedia can afford far better lawyers than Chris.

Don't kid yourself, Russia invested a lot of capital in demonstrating that, as far as international affairs were concerned, they were a kinder, gentler nation and a responsible state actor back when the votes were held for both the Olympics and the World Cup were held. In 2007/2010 they weren't the ones knocking over countries, we were.

Well, that and Russia was sitting on Europe's energy supply at the time, so they had a far heftier Sword of Damocles to hang over the rest of Europe, and Putin might care just enough to ratchet up oil and gas prices if he was upset.

Conversely, our government isn't going to do crap if you vote against us because of the NSA spying fiasco (which is good and appropriate), so it gives the other nations of the world the perfect opportunity to register their protest against our policies. Realpolitik at its finest.

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The only countries included in that list that would hold some sort of anti-American agenda would be China and Russia. The African nations involved are given massive funding by the United States. The rest of the European nations involved in voting are allies. The United States helped Cyprus when their economy tanked. We have significant ties to helping Taiwan as well.

WE'VE BEEN SPYING ON THE CITIZENS OF OUR ALLIES! We may have been aided and abetted by their own intelligence agencies, but by golly the NSA's been looking at their metadata too, and thanks in part to Snowden their citizens know it.

Is it me or does the $5 million dollar amount actually seem...small? I mean, I understand that it was the African countries but, I mean, these are Arabic royalty with oil money regarding one of the largest sports event, if not THE largest, in the world; you'd think you could get them up to nine-digit figures or something.

Hell, if $5 million is all it takes, I'm surprised America doesn't just come rolling with the dough the next time around.

It is a little bit of "inflation" from the money the USA spent to get the 1996 and 2002 Olympics. We were paying college tuition, getting tickets to the Super Bowl and The Oscars in addition to cash.

As for the USA just outspending the other bidders, Eddie Snowden gave the rest of the world issues to worry about regarding how we monitor everyone in terms of surveillance. That's kind of an issue for those whose world revolves around seediness.

No, Snowden's relevant in the bidding for international events. We're not exactly popular in a decent chunk of the world.

If human rights were considered when choosing a home nation, Qatar would've never won the initial bid in the first place. All that matters is the money in this situation. There's no rational reason behind choosing Qatar in terms of safety. Why should we assume Snowdens leak would have any form of impact on a World Cup bid selection if a country like Qatar had been picked?

It's all about the ability to move money and use power, and the United States can do that. I can't imagine Snowdens leaks will have any sort of impact on the ineffective bid committee that comes with World Cup politics.

Guess what, a large chunk of FIFA's representatives don't give a crap about human rights violations. However, they do see a semi-rare opportunity with Snowden to get a free poke of the eye in at the United States. Something that, again, they won't pass up as they are from smaller countries that the United States typically bosses around.

Is it me or does the $5 million dollar amount actually seem...small? I mean, I understand that it was the African countries but, I mean, these are Arabic royalty with oil money regarding one of the largest sports event, if not THE largest, in the world; you'd think you could get them up to nine-digit figures or something.

Hell, if $5 million is all it takes, I'm surprised America doesn't just come rolling with the dough the next time around.

It is a little bit of "inflation" from the money the USA spent to get the 1996 and 2002 Olympics. We were paying college tuition, getting tickets to the Super Bowl and The Oscars in addition to cash.

As for the USA just outspending the other bidders, Eddie Snowden gave the rest of the world issues to worry about regarding how we monitor everyone in terms of surveillance. That's kind of an issue for those whose world revolves around seediness.

Snowden's relevant in the bidding for international events. We're not exactly popular in a decent chunk of the world.

ACC teams to possibly play non-conference games against other ACC teams.

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Hot off the wires: UMass football to the Sun Belt?! *gets another gallon of LSD for Mr. Popo*

Didn't the board once have a policy of banning posters who were younger than 13? Whatever happened to that policy?

A lot of these posts have teams in the state playing in the same division. There's a reason why they don't do that.

A lot of these posts are saying Conference-specific TV deals as well.