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Salt Lake City doesn’t have a suitable building yet.

Some of the western teams have closer travel distance to Florida and Tampa than some of the eastern teams that the Panthers and Lightning share the Atlantic division with. Chicago, St. Louis and Nashville are borderline eastern teams in the west. Here's the view from a map...

Yes. Houston, Salt Lake City and Atlanta were being discussed. If the league really does expand, I think Quebec should get a team before Atlanta. Depending on what happens with Arizona, US western markets would have to balance out the conferences.

Expansion.

Unless there's a massive choke, Jack Eichel will win a Stanley Cup before Connor McDavid.

More than one. Five misconducts for Florida.

Thousands of fans outside celebrating their minor league team's championship victory. That doesn't include fans inside the building.

4-0 Vegas midway through the 2nd.

Miami wins.

Bettman wasn't kidding when he said that there are a lot of sports fans in Arizona's large market. Football games have good attendance numbers: --- Too bad there aren't that many hockey fans.

The league is so desperate to keep the Coyotes in Arizona that now they've turned the Coyotes social media into meme accounts about having the best fans in the league and staying put where they are. They now refer to themseves as the #Pack. They've tried everything for 30 years. Let's see if this works. If they are going to continue taking pages from the Vegas Golden Knight's playbook, why don't they build a mini desert setting somewhere in Mullett Arena, to have a cool visual for TV. Or hire Michael Buffer to hype the crowd. Maybe that will help them fill 5000 seats.

I willingly follow food ads on Instagram because I enjoy looking at pictures of pizza. So what do they do? They force more ads of things I don't need onto my feed without the possibility of removing them on my phone. I'm not against every advertisement in the world. But I don't want the things I use to become a cesspool. The NBA is going too far. Putting corporate greed over a fan favorite on court product is terrible.

Not gonna lie, the Fortress setting for the Final is beautiful.

Someone on Youtube brought up the pandemic, income loss, and having something to fall back on if there's difficult times. But it's definitely not a necessity for the most profitable franchises. Maybe it'll benefit teams that can't sell out their building every game...

The Captain is the first player to raise the Stanley Cup during the initial presentation. The next 5+ years of Championship photos for the history books are going to look so awful. Not saying ads need to go completely. Teams need income. Just do a better job with the jersey ad placement and remove the flying board ads.

I always wondered if the moving digital board ads were enough of a turn off for fans to legitimately unsuscribe from all NHL streaming services. There have been thousands of complaints about the digital ads that the league have publicly ignored. More than a few dozens, that's for sure. But the part that I'm in agreement with you is that corporations don't listen to the complaining on social media. That's why I wondered if the complaints increase enough, when will they begin to speak with their wallet? The league is still selling, despite them completely disregarding their own customers because they're just going to pay for it anyway. The tiny jersey ads nowhere as bad as the digital ads that distract us from the puck.

Actually no, that's not correct. I do not like the moving board ads anywhere, not during the regular season, not during the playoffs, nor the Stanley Cup Final. Slightly less bad doesn't make them good. Just wanna clarify that. The worst is that Bettman is publicly sweeping any criticisms the digital ads get under the rug. The only people on the planet who love digital ads are the advertisers who don't watch hockey. Since their inception, Bettman hasn't made a single argument on how digital ads improve viewing experience. Why? Because it doesn't. It does the opposite.

During the regular season during a casual game, they are extremely annoying. But when the game becomes a lot more fast-paced during the playoffs, I barely notice the moving ads because I'm too intensely focused on the action on the ice. I hope Gary Bettman doesn't find out because he'll just ad more ads.

Yikes.

Vegas played like they didn't want to get humiliated. Everytime they scored, they relentlessly kept battling to score another and another. Dallas got obliterated.

Too bad. Celtics could have made history tonight.

Heat and Golden Knights all blowing their 3-0 leads, while their opponents continue to wait. I thought we'd get sweeps across the board, with Championship games that will end the seasons early.

Adam Fox, Matthew Tkachuk, Johnny Gaudreau, and Sam Bennett all left Calgary. It's crazy thinking of the team they could have had.