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I think Vegas will try to score 10 goals.

Congratulations to the Denver Nuggets for winning their 1st NBA Championship.

It's nice to see that there's hope for teams other than the Lakers, Celtics, Warriors, and Heat.

It would be great to have the Sonics back.

They're one of the first teams to introduce modernized takes on throwback uniforms, before the trend took off...

Vegas' discipline level was tested at the end there.

You don't want to get a suspension with the Cup on the line next game.

26 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

Seriously?? Let's lose game 3 on purpose so we can win the next 2?

They didn't lay down to take the L. A lot of VGK players just didn't play their best.

Game 3 was a bad game. They had very few shots on goal through all of the 1st period.

If the Golden Knights win tonight, I can only imagine what kind of atmosphere it will be in T-Mobile Arena and on Las Vegas Boulevard.

A reminder that the Golden Knights have a history of choking, when they're in advance of a crucial series.

They need to be careful or history can repeat itself. They could have been up 3-0 tonight, had they played just a little bit better in the final 2 minutes.

24 minutes ago, mcj882000 said:

 it then, just give all 4 markets an expansion team, each to a different division. SLC to the Pacific, Houston to the Central, Atlanta to the Metropolitan and Quebec to the Atlantic.

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

55 minutes ago, TBGKon said:

Just get rid of conferences and have 4 8-team divisions.  I know it was a pandemic precaution, but the Final 4 playing 1v4 and 2v3 really wasn't that bad.   

 

If you judge relocation based off of teams preference of what conference you're in, then you have a bigger problem.  I get the issue that Detroit and Columbus may have, but do you think it makes sense to have TB  and Florida in a division with the furthest north teams (BOS, MON, TOR, OTT, BUF, DET)?  Ideally Tampa Bay would be with Carolina, Nashville, Washington among others.

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...

10 minutes ago, Kevin W. said:

You do realize that would require adding more than just one more team to keep the divisions even, right? You'd need to add one team to the Metropolitan, two teams to the Central and one team to the Pacific.

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.

1 hour ago, Kevin W. said:

Alright, we get it. Who are you moving to the West to make room for the Nordiques in the East? News flash: it's not going to be Detroit or Columbus.

 

I'll wait.

Expansion.

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

55 minutes ago, tBBP said:

EDIT: and as I type that Jack Eichel just got checked right off the ice by Matthew Tkachuk—who for the second straight game got assessed a game misconduct (along with Barbachev on Vegas' side), although it didn't look like Tkachuck was being needlessly reckless. But then, reputation precedes some people, and Tkachuk's definitely precedes him.

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:

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Too bad there aren't that many hockey fans. 

19 hours ago, IceCap said:

They have a NHL caliber arena and fans willing to pay to go see NHL hockey games. Neither of which Arizona has, despite the league insisting Quebec can't have a team/Arizona should for thirty years. 

 

The market loves hockey and will pay to see it.

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.

22 minutes ago, VampyrRabbit said:

The NBA banned the Bucks and the Sixers from wearing cream uniforms due to the digital ad interferance

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.

22 minutes ago, Kramerica Industries said:

I'm terrified to wonder what's next.

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

27 minutes ago, ManillaToad said:

Uniform advertisements are not and will never be a necessity for a big four league

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...

11 hours ago, Typhoon said:

For the majority of players who aren’t captains, the patch will look fine in it’s current location. 
 

just sayin

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.

1 hour ago, WSU151 said:

 

For a few people that’s true. Just hope you’re not one of them. 

 

There’s literally nothing dumber than “What if we just had a bunch of people not watch hockey so we get what we want”. It’s pure delusion/alternate reality stuff.  . 

 

The ads are here to stay. I don’t like it. But nobody outside of some niche group - insert “there are dozens of us!!! Dozens!!!” meme - is going to boycott playoff hockey because of the ads. The constant circling back to “duhhhh ads are bad, I hate ads, we should boycott seriously but not really, and also, I hate ads” that occurs every six weeks or so is so tired. If you all want to beat dead horses so bad, set up a “Dead (Or Partially Alive) Horses We Love To Beat” thread. Constant groaning about ads - when this board clearly has no influence as to what leagues are doing - just sucks the fun and utility out of these yearly changes threads. 

 

#reality

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.

22 hours ago, adsarebad said:

Right, and that is good for you.... but people are  all different, and  lots of folks can't handle distractions like these.

 

And that is what they are, and that is how this thing was designed, to be distracting and draw the eyes to the ads, why else should they move!!?

 

And i am sadly one of those that can't handle it.

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.