Bmac 889 Posted January 4, 2012 FWIW, I finally got my Islanders jersey in the mail today. It worked! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bowld 2,146 Posted January 4, 2012 FWIW, I finally got my Islanders jersey in the mail today. It worked!when did you order it? i placed my order on the 24th and it hasnt even shipped yet 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bmac 889 Posted January 4, 2012 FWIW, I finally got my Islanders jersey in the mail today. It worked!when did you order it? i placed my order on the 24th and it hasnt even shipped yetOrdered on the 24th, got an email saying it had shipped on the 27th, arrived today. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BigBubba 787 Posted January 4, 2012 When did they correct the prices? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
evanmaldonado 0 Posted January 4, 2012 Has the little patch on the top of the sleeves of the Wings jerseys been there all year? Just noticed it 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nash61 1,799 Posted January 4, 2012 Has the little patch on the top of the sleeves of the Wings jerseys been there all year? Just noticed itYes, it has. It's for the Lokomotiv victims. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EddieJ1984 1,656 Posted January 4, 2012 I got an email tonight saying my islanders jersey is being shipped 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
poser 393 Posted January 4, 2012 I just received a shipping confirmation for my order. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Max@lcs 6 Posted January 4, 2012 Still nothing.... 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oddball 204 Posted January 4, 2012 As much as I'd like to see Kings/Ducks in LA, it was 82ºF on 1/1 and 80 on 1/2?I predict this will be the last year that you see an afternoon game for the Winter Classic. Why compete against 3 or 4 college football games and possibly the Rose Bowl. Start it at 8:30pm EST and compete against one college football game. So whatever the temp was the past couple days in LA doesn't matter. Besides, they've done one in Las Vegas in 80 degree weather and the ice was fine then and will be fine today because the technology has come so far. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IceCap 22,321 Posted January 4, 2012 As much as I'd like to see Kings/Ducks in LA, it was 82ºF on 1/1 and 80 on 1/2?I predict this will be the last year that you see an afternoon game for the Winter Classic. Why compete against 3 or 4 college football games and possibly the Rose Bowl. Start it at 8:30pm EST and compete against one college football game. So whatever the temp was the past couple days in LA doesn't matter. Besides, they've done one in Las Vegas in 80 degree weather and the ice was fine then and will be fine today because the technology has come so far.That's nice and all but part of the appeal of the Winter Classic is the outdoor olde time hockey feel. Putting it in LA just won't achieve that.Sorry. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charger77 1,787 Posted January 4, 2012 Could we see a neutral site classic? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Casey 0 Posted January 4, 2012 As much as I'd like to see Kings/Ducks in LA, it was 82ºF on 1/1 and 80 on 1/2?It's not like you can't have a rink outside in LA. There's one right outside of Staples center in fact. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Casey 0 Posted January 4, 2012 As much as I'd like to see Kings/Ducks in LA, it was 82ºF on 1/1 and 80 on 1/2?I predict this will be the last year that you see an afternoon game for the Winter Classic. Why compete against 3 or 4 college football games and possibly the Rose Bowl. Start it at 8:30pm EST and compete against one college football game. So whatever the temp was the past couple days in LA doesn't matter. Besides, they've done one in Las Vegas in 80 degree weather and the ice was fine then and will be fine today because the technology has come so far.That's nice and all but part of the appeal of the Winter Classic is the outdoor olde time hockey feel. Putting it in LA just won't achieve that.Sorry.Old time hockey? The Kings are the seventh oldest team in the league. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
njmeadowlanders 162 Posted January 4, 2012 As much as I'd like to see Kings/Ducks in LA, it was 82ºF on 1/1 and 80 on 1/2?It's not like you can't have a rink outside in LA. There's one right outside of Staples center in fact.But there's no way that is NHL caliber-ice.I've skated outdoors in Sun Valley Idaho on a hundred degree July day, but it's not the same quality. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Funky Bunky 162 Posted January 4, 2012 Could we see a neutral site classic?Possibly. But it will take place with the two closest teams. You're not going to get Sharks vs Kings in Utah, but you might get something like Pittsburgh vs Philadelphia at Penn State.Or maybe something like Rangers vs Islanders/Devils at Yankee or Medowlands Stadium with no "Home" team. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IceCap 22,321 Posted January 4, 2012 As much as I'd like to see Kings/Ducks in LA, it was 82ºF on 1/1 and 80 on 1/2?I predict this will be the last year that you see an afternoon game for the Winter Classic. Why compete against 3 or 4 college football games and possibly the Rose Bowl. Start it at 8:30pm EST and compete against one college football game. So whatever the temp was the past couple days in LA doesn't matter. Besides, they've done one in Las Vegas in 80 degree weather and the ice was fine then and will be fine today because the technology has come so far.That's nice and all but part of the appeal of the Winter Classic is the outdoor olde time hockey feel. Putting it in LA just won't achieve that.Sorry.Old time hockey? The Kings are the seventh oldest team in the league.First off, they share that honour with four other teams. The Montreal Canadiens they are not.Secondly "old time hockey," as it relates to outdoor games, has little to nothing to do with the participating teams' ages. It's about trying to tap into a partly contrived sense of outdoor hockey nostalgia. An outdoor rink. Snow visible, if not falling. Coaches in heavy coats and goalies wearing toques. Visible breath, that sort of thing. That's what the league wants and that's what the networks want. Given that, the Wild are a more logical choice to fill the "olde time iced hockey" nostalgia role as hosts then the Kings. The team's young, but the area has a very rich hockey history and it fits all of the above mentioned points.Not to say the Kings can't be involved as a visiting team. They'll just never host it. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oddball 204 Posted January 4, 2012 As much as I'd like to see Kings/Ducks in LA, it was 82ºF on 1/1 and 80 on 1/2?I predict this will be the last year that you see an afternoon game for the Winter Classic. Why compete against 3 or 4 college football games and possibly the Rose Bowl. Start it at 8:30pm EST and compete against one college football game. So whatever the temp was the past couple days in LA doesn't matter. Besides, they've done one in Las Vegas in 80 degree weather and the ice was fine then and will be fine today because the technology has come so far.That's nice and all but part of the appeal of the Winter Classic is the outdoor olde time hockey feel. Putting it in LA just won't achieve that.Sorry.Old time hockey? The Kings are the seventh oldest team in the league.First off, they share that honour with four other teams. The Montreal Canadiens they are not.Secondly "old time hockey," as it relates to outdoor games, has little to nothing to do with the participating teams' ages. It's about trying to tap into a partly contrived sense of outdoor hockey nostalgia. An outdoor rink. Snow visible, if not falling. Coaches in heavy coats and goalies wearing toques. Visible breath, that sort of thing. That's what the league wants and that's what the networks want. Given that, the Wild are a more logical choice to fill the "olde time iced hockey" nostalgia role as hosts then the Kings. The team's young, but the area has a very rich hockey history and it fits all of the above mentioned points.Not to say the Kings can't be involved as a visiting team. They'll just never host it.Screw old time hockey. If you want that, then go play on a river somewhere where no one knows you're there. The league doesn't care about old time hockey feel, if it did then it would include Montreal instead of Washington and Buffalo. But based on the ratings, no one cares about the Classic except the people in the city where it's hosted. Truth be told, it's just another way for the league to get the Only 6 (Pittsburgh, Rangers, Detroit, Boston, Washington, Philly) on tv. I guarantee you that an outdoor game on Manhattan Beach as the sun sets, just outside of LA between the Kings and the Rangers will clearly outdraw any Winter Classic because it's novel. The ratings have proven that people could care less about a hockey in a baseball or football stadium in a cold environment, it no longer will draw people to the tv. The novelty has worn off. Heck, I didn't even watch it, yet I watched Detroit and Dallas tonight. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CS85 10,596 Posted January 4, 2012 I think they struck gold with the snow game a few years ago and have tried to replicate it with less success each time. The games themselves are interesting, but there's only so much you can do with fake snow and faux-vintage uniforms when there's no additional weather dynamic to make it stand out. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FiddySicks 11,202 Posted January 4, 2012 The more I see these possible locations (AT&T Park would be SO kick ass, BTW), the more I yearn to see a game played on this rink.I mean really, can you ever beat that backdrop? And it's not like it's never happened before. This isn't the same rink, but Squaw had the first artificially refrigerated rink ever, I believe.Even had Olympic hockey.Sigh 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites