2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs

Hamilton Coyotes? Or are the Leafs still not wanting to share?

 

Can’t swing a dead cat in Nashville without hitting a damn Yankee but do go on about the Sun Belt.

 

Many others are morons.

 

Walk us through how they rig it with the 4 ball combinations. Ernst and Young are in on it? The other 15 teams are in on it? The journalists in the room are in on it?

 

I forgot I was talking to a Ducks fanboi.

 

Team and insiders say they’re playing at Mullett next year, but THN brought up an interesting destination: SLC. The arena formerly known as the Delta Center hosted the 2002 Olympic tournament and the Jazz’s owners have apparently expressed interest.

I was not aware of Peladeau’s seperatism, but I assume he has more than enough money to make up for that. Quebec seperatism hasn’t really been a thing for 10-15 years anyway. More problematic than that is probably that Quebec City is deeply Francophone. Like there are probably more English speaking hockey fans/players in Duluth. I don’t think the league wants to go through what it would need to be really bilingual, especially in such a small market and when a much smaller percentage of players are full-blooded Quebecois than there were in 1995.

I also think geography is a problem. As mentioned previously, the Coyotes moving to Quebec puts an Eastern time zone team in the Western Conference, either Detroit or Columbus.

I’d vote no conspiracy mostly because we all saw last night that Gary would F up a two car parade if given a chance.

 

Bettman is smarter than me. He is definitely smarter than you guys. I never called anybody a moron or a fanboi.
I presented my beliefs based on his history under similar circumstances. And I was fucking right, again.
You can use reverse psychology to make a scenario that there will be a lot of heat on the league (isn't there always?) and the Blackhawks, but in the end, making their franchise better helps the league. Bettman doesn't care how much heat he gets, he's made it into a joke every time he gets booed at an arena.

 

You guessed right. The team tanked all year and had the 3rd best chance to land it.

Now explain how everyone else would have to be in in it? My guess is you have no idea how the number combinations work.

This is Trumpist election was stolen nonsense.

Also, right again? If true, I forget what else you have been right about.

 

This one is so you know how it works.




there’s also this.



And this.

Man does the dumbest commissioner is sports somehow come up with a way to keep thousands silent for years upon years with no leaks. There’s a better chance the earth is flat.

But Chris Long guessed the Blackhawks.

 

Never mind an Edmonton-Carolina Final in '06.

 

One complicating thing for SLC, and it's also a problem for just about all of the cities I mentioned higher in the thread: I don't think they have much interest in being a tenant.

The Tempe arena deal was really a major real estate deal that had an arena in the middle of it. That's the kind of situation the ownership is likely to be looking for. I don't think they really give a shit about hockey, so just owning a team in someone else's building may not work for them.

They could always sell, of course, but they'll probably want to exhaust every possible route to a new arena first -- wherever that might be.