teddthebucfan

2 hours ago, sohiosportsfreak said:

I see a Reno AHL team in the near future (for the Knights of Columbus, I mean Las Vegas).

I'm not quite sure about that. The ECHL tried for years to get an ownership group to either expand or relocate the Reno  for literally decades ever since they merged with the WHL, and was never even able to get its foot in the door in even getting an arena built.

Grantland was one of the few of these "all-around with focus on sports" kind of websites that I actually frequented, mostly because I liked the guy that wrote the lengthy movie reviews they had there. I think Grantland to a certain extent, at least compared to some others, was able to pull off the kind of departmental magazine feel that I think they were going for, as opposed to Deadspin, and this is the other major reason I stopped frequenting it, which often reads like a sports blog that desperately wants to be a politics blog, or vice versa.

23 hours ago, Cosmic said:

Well-intended mess seems a fitting description. I never read more than a few things at Grantland, so maybe I'm off base, but I expected The Ringer to be mostly about sports. I didn't expect the top screenful of stories to be (as they were when I just checked it out) "Aloe Vera is a Lie", "You Haven't Lived if You Haven't Watched Lifeguard Rescue YouTube", and "The New Instagram Food Trend You Should Skip". Oh, and presented by Miller Lite for some reason. It seems like a lot of generic clickbait that you'd find at the bottom of, say, a CCSLC thread.

I haven't been to the Ringer yet, and what everyone's said hasn't really given me any reason to, but this description sounds an awful lot like half of the reasons I stopped frequenting Deadspin a while back. I can;t remember the exact time or what the exact stories were, but I remember one time I visited and on the front page there were only two stories about sports, four were reblogs from other Gawker sites, and 2 were those adver-posts about sweet summer deals on speakers.

13 minutes ago, Sodboy13 said:

And now SinBin.vegas is reporting the recommendation has been made. Vegas will get franchise 31 in 2017-18, Québec will be told to eat a bag of, how do yoy say, le dicks, and the league will continue to hope and pray that an arena gets built in Seattle somehow while presumably taking over Carolina and attempting to bleed out local officials.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are now at Expancon 1

 

This thread has kind of been the all things minor league hockey thread for some time now.

I'm noticing a problem where I attempted to multiquote something, decided not to, and then came back to that thread to make a new post but can't because it still thinks I want to do the multiquote and now I can't delete them.

 

This wouldn't be a problem if we could edit or type posts in plaintext like before, but that option seems to be missing.

I think that the new chat feature is an interesting idea, but I can't really think of any thing that it could be used for other than gameday chat that the normal forum thread system can't be used for better.

The circular avatars make it look like a cartoon is ending everytime I make a post now.

I can't tell you how long I got confused about the architecture of this place because I thought they were one image.

Norfolk Tides unveil new branding:

Here's the milb.com article on the Tides' new look: http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20151202&content_id=158642308&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_t568&sid=t568

Oh no. Oh no oh no oh no. This was designed by someone who focused on making something "unique" rather than making something that looks good. We get a color scheme of Hospital Scrub Green, Road Vehicle Orange and Lifeless Gray, a logo that looks like it deserves to be for a water slide instead of one of the oldest teams in Minor League Baseball

It says a lot about the state of the NHL that their Thanksgiving float prominently features a team that doesn't even exist anymore.

NO. NO. Just no. Even for the minor leagues, this is not a uniform design this a design for an overpriced $25 t-shirt that you buy in the gift shop right after getting off of the roller coaster.

Kane County Cougars (Class A Midwest League, Arizona Diamondbacks) unveiled their new logo and uniforms today.

Looks familiar...

Buddy, get in line.

Kane County Cougars (Class A Midwest League, Arizona Diamondbacks) unveiled their new logo and uniforms today.

Those are some nice uniforms... for the Columbus Clippers.

The old set had definitely grown stale but this just stinks. I love how the old green color scheme has been reduced to a name plate above the rat cougar.

Whoever comes up with the ECHL schedules deserves to be given a kick in the pants.

7:30 PM Sat 10/24 Brampton (ON) Beast at Wheeling (WV) Nailers

Game ends at 10

- 6 Hour bus ride to Brampton -

3:00 PM Sun 10/25 Wheeling Nailers at Brampton Beast

NHL Anti-thread: More Songs About Buildings and Mexican Food

Sounds like no expansion to Quebec City, just Las Vegas. Figures with this league.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/39616/bruins-owner-jacobs-i-dont-know-if-theres-a-desire-for-expansion

While Jacobs admitted Quebec has the history and a beautiful new arena with a strong fan base, he believes Las Vegas would be more viable.

OITGDNHL would a long history with the game and an arena of size mean "not viable" compared to a desert vacation spot with no history in any major professional sport.

The Islanders have dropped their doofy Brooklyn goal horn, and have announced they're going back to the one they used in Uniondale.

Well that horn lasted all of three days.

Personally I'm hoping that this is the first step to the reveal that this whole Brooklyn thing is just an elaborate prank and that they'll be opening the season in Nassau County.

I do realize that it's only the preseason but Brooklyn's looking like it might be in the running for Glendale East

Travis Hughes

visSBN

Attendance in Allentown (population 118k) for Flyers-Isles Monday: 7,981. Attendance in Brooklyn (pop. 2.59 mil) for Flyers-Isles: ~2,000

Beautiful. The Mason Jar logo is pure genius. Love the moon and the palmetto in the background of the primary as well.

I'm sorry but the first thing that springs to my mind when I see the mason jar alt is:

So where to for 2022?

I say USA with a couple opening games in Canada.

FIFA won't allow a joint bid between two large countries, especially when one only hosts a few games.

Well maybe our good friend the Right Honourable Robert Borden can convince them otherwise

So with another team up for sale how long is it now until we can rename the thread to "LNH Contre-fil: Le Revaunche du Chelmdale"?

Until Quebec City is awarded an expansion team.

So, never. I see.

So with another team up for sale how long is it now until we can rename the thread to "LNH Contre-fil: Le Revaunche du Chelmdale"?

Well at least I'm relatively certain the new Vegas club won't institute zip code blackouts on ticket purchases for visiting fans.

They probably won't have many home games from late November to December too. NFR (rodeo) will boot them out around Thanksgiving for two weeks, their will be a NCAA holiday tournament to be booked and to end the year UFC come in on the last Saturday night.

Booted out for two months for rodeos and college basketball? This sounds like a terrific place to have a Big Four franchise! Perhaps the NHL will be freethinking enough to also put a team in a city with no arena.

*Seattle waves*

Well at least I'm relatively certain the new Vegas club won't institute zip code blackouts on ticket purchases for visiting fans.

They probably won't have many home games from late November to December too. NFR (rodeo) will boot them out around Thanksgiving for two weeks, their will be a NCAA holiday tournament to be booked and to end the year UFC come in on the last Saturday night.

Booted out for two months for rodeos and college basketball? This sounds like a terrific place to have a Big Four franchise! Perhaps the NHL will be freethinking enough to also put a team in a city with no arena.