Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Eh, I'm going to assume their demographics are a feature to them, and not a bug.

For hockey, sure. I never understood how or why basketball works there.

 

[axlsalinger]

Leaning towards the Salt Lake City Salty Lakers myself.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

There was always a better chance of an abortion clinic being built in Arizona than a new arena.

Not really. Grifting taxpayers for sports stadiums is what North American pro sports is all about nowadays.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

View: https://x.com/pierrevlebrun/status/1778184871640244405?s=46&t=moEoHBmqH0l4NE3F_49J3Q

Funny how Quebec City and it's 18500 seat, state of the art arena isn't an option.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

View: https://x.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1778215305665552447

Oilers beat Vegas 5-1 without McJebus.

 

[zeke]

axl has a friend now!

 

[LeafGm]

Funny how Quebec City and it's 18500 seat, state of the art arena isn't an option.

Quebec will get their team roughly 10 years after the NHL expands to Atlanta again.

 

[Artnes]

If they don't do the opening night player introductions as Brother Keller etc then what's the point.

 

[JackBurton]

Funny how Quebec City and it's 18500 seat, state of the art arena isn't an option.

They have 0 interest.

 

[JackBurton]

For hockey, sure. I never understood how or why basketball works there.

It is odd.

 

[JackBurton]

OJ has died.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

OJ has died.

Good.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Quebec will get their team roughly 10 years after the NHL expands to Atlanta again.

And of course by then the first thing the owners will say is that the arena is old and outdated.

 

[zeke]

you guys can't be serious about QC.

Sens and Jets are permanent minnows even with full sellouts. Oilers would be the same if they didn't have McDavid.

 

[CH1]

Full sellouts in small markets are still better than whatever shit Zona and Atlanta have been serving us

 

[zeke]

minimally in the short term. absolutely useless in terms of things like future TV contracts tho.

a little bit of on-ice success in those markets could have helped a whole lot.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

you guys can't be serious about QC.

Sens and Jets are permanent minnows even with full sellouts. Oilers would be the same if they didn't have McDavid.

Neither the Jets nor the Sens are selling out much these days. Although despite the obstacles, in their history the Jets and Sens have both won 2 playoff rounds in the same season (once the Sens even won 3) so...yeah.

 

[zeke]

Although despite the obstacles, in their history the Jets and Sens have both won 2 playoff rounds in the same season (once the Sens even won 3) so...yeah.

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[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

minimally in the short term. absolutely useless in terms of things like future TV contracts tho.

a little bit of on-ice success in those markets could have helped a whole lot.

You need to be serious about TV contracts as they pertain to hockey. Simply put, they are never going to be big enough to matter except in Canada. And the way to get more Canadian TV money is to have more Canadian teams, not fewer. The NHL, unlike the NFL, MLB, and the NBA, is a gate-driven league. Bums in seats matter in a way that they don't in the other major sports. So yes, a full arena in Quebec or Ottawa or Winnipeg is more significant than a half-empty 5000 seat college arena in Phoenix with a regional TV deal.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

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Yeah, not sure you're aware but the NHL playoffs last 4 rounds, not just the one or two rounds in which the Leafs participate.