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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jun 25, 2024 11:53:28 GMT -5
New Senators entered in 92-93 with the Lightning. Sharks were a solo expansion team the year before Shit! My brain always remembers it as one eastern, one western team, but that's when we still had the Wales and Campbell conferences. Sorry not sorry about the 2003 Senators team. I will never be sorry for that one. The only apology needed for that season was for Brodeur not winning the Conn Smythe. At least McDavid takes the latest mvp to not win |
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Jun 25, 2024 12:21:51 GMT -5
New Senators entered in 92-93 with the Lightning. Sharks were a solo expansion team the year before Shit! My brain always remembers it as one eastern, one western team, but that's when we still had the Wales and Campbell conferences. Sorry not sorry about the 2003 Senators team. I will never be sorry for that one. The only apology needed for that season was for Brodeur not winning the Conn Smythe. you wouldn't have given the Conn Smythe to Jiggy? |
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Post by HMARK Center on Jun 25, 2024 12:32:08 GMT -5
Shit! My brain always remembers it as one eastern, one western team, but that's when we still had the Wales and Campbell conferences. I will never be sorry for that one. The only apology needed for that season was for Brodeur not winning the Conn Smythe. you wouldn't have given the Conn Smythe to Jiggy? Jiggy was deserving, but Marty also set the record for shutouts in the playoffs. I guess, if nothing else, it was something that cemented the "Marty's Better!" chant for Devils fans. |
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Jun 25, 2024 12:33:54 GMT -5
you wouldn't have given the Conn Smythe to Jiggy? Jiggy was deserving, but Marty also set the record for shutouts in the playoffs. I guess, if nothing else, it was something that cemented the "Marty's Better!" chant for Devils fans. if it makes you feel better, i still know plenty of long time Ducks fans who lament we had to run into Marty that year they still fear him. one of those fans is me! |
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Post by mo on Jun 25, 2024 14:10:50 GMT -5
Here’s the voting for the Conn Smythe. It was all McDavid. Barkov was the vote winner for the Panthers and Bobrovsky had to settle for fourth.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jun 25, 2024 14:47:56 GMT -5
you wouldn't have given the Conn Smythe to Jiggy? Jiggy was deserving, but Marty also set the record for shutouts in the playoffs. I guess, if nothing else, it was something that cemented the "Marty's Better!" chant for Devils fans. Brodeur set the record for shutouts, but Giguere let in like 10 goals that entire run and carried an 8th seed on his back to Game 7 of the finals. Dude became a hockey legend basically because of 8 weeks |
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Post by animaniac on Jun 25, 2024 14:51:35 GMT -5
Roenick, Weber, and Datsuyk among the 2025 Hockey Hall of Fame Class.
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Post by jm on Jun 25, 2024 19:15:56 GMT -5
A NEWS DUMP WHILE THE CUP IS BEING RAISED This is news to be celebrated also. Now Meruelo can go take his grift somewhere else and Arizona can have hope in finding a owner who knows what he's actually doing. |
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Post by Heart of fools gold on Jun 26, 2024 5:01:42 GMT -5
Am I the only one who thinks having the Coyotes franchise in Utah is better? Like Utah would make for a much better hockey state. They get snow they like cold weather activities and as long as you can put a good Christian spin on hockey you'll get all the lil Mormons flocking like they're beloved seagulls to the new team
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Jun 26, 2024 14:24:15 GMT -5
I love the ducks new jerseys so much i might actually buy one
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Post by sfvega on Jun 26, 2024 15:04:33 GMT -5
I love the ducks new jerseys so much i might actually buy one It's Fanatics, buy at your own peril. It's the only brand I would say has worse quality than their knock-offs. |
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Jun 26, 2024 15:08:17 GMT -5
I love the ducks new jerseys so much i might actually buy one It's Fanatics, buy at your own peril. It's the only brand I would say has worse quality than their knock-offs. ah shit true. I learned my lesson getting a nationals cherry blossom jersey and it fell apart before I even opened the bag lmao. |
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Post by mo on Jun 26, 2024 15:14:57 GMT -5
Can’t be worse than the MLB jerseys…or can they?
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Post by jm on Jun 26, 2024 18:16:21 GMT -5
Please PLEASE don't let Fanatics botch these jerseys like they did for MLB!!! Because I want one so badly!!!!
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Post by DichEvans on Jun 26, 2024 18:33:25 GMT -5
Am I the only one who thinks having the Coyotes franchise in Utah is better? Like Utah would make for a much better hockey state. They get snow they like cold weather activities and as long as you can put a good Christian spin on hockey you'll get all the lil Mormons flocking like they're beloved seagulls to the new team I used to be a season ticket account manager for the Mariners, and I think Utah will make a great market, but where most of the revenue from ticket sales comes from is corporate and suite sales. The NHL has remained in the Phoenix area all this time because they are the 3rd biggest business hub in the west. In the 20ish years the Phoenix area had a team, they had 2 series wins. No matter what market you're in, that is going to kill interest. I really don't get why the NHL even allowed the OG Jets to move to Phoenix, when from day 1 they had arena issues. They only went out ot Glendale because they were forced to |
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Post by HMARK Center on Jun 26, 2024 22:32:33 GMT -5
It's Fanatics, buy at your own peril. It's the only brand I would say has worse quality than their knock-offs. ah shit true. I learned my lesson getting a nationals cherry blossom jersey and it fell apart before I even opened the bag lmao. To be fair to Fanatics (I just threw up a little in my mouth typing that): the MLB situation is apparently that Nike gave them marching orders on how to put the jerseys together, and they simply did as they were asked. Is that true? Who knows, but that's the story as of now. For the NHL, it's Fanatics and Fanatics alone doing it here, no Nike or anyone else involved. Word is they've taken that seriously and beefed up their staffing and whatnot to get things right...or, well, at least as right as we can presume Fanatics is capable. All of that said, the big difference with Fanatics this year is that they're moving to a three, yes, count 'em, THREE tier system for the kinds of jerseys you can buy: replica style (the shitty kind that currently carry the Fanatics logo, where there's a tag near the hem, probably around $140), "authentic" style (closer to the real deal, more expensive, closer to $200), and full on-ice style, which will obviously be most expensive, and are produced in the same factory in Quebec that all on-ice NHL jerseys have been made for a good while now, and will probably run closer to $400. What's interesting about that is that the first two NHL jerseys I bought were on-ice style Reebok Edge 1.0 jerseys, back around 2007-2009; I remember them being pretty pricey, especially when I had to get them to a store to get their numbers/lettering done, but they've held up wonderfully over the years. Once Adidas took over, though, they moved to only the cheaper replicas and the "authentic" style, they chose not to make the on-ice quality available. So, well, now we're going to have access to them again. Long story short: we're not likely getting a disaster on the level of what happened with MLB, but with *three* different styles of jersey to be available at retail now it'll be interesting to get a feel for the differences involved and whether they'll be prodding us to buy the super expensive ones. |
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Post by sassafrastaz on Jun 26, 2024 23:21:52 GMT -5
I really don't get why the NHL even allowed the OG Jets to move to Phoenix, when from day 1 they had arena issues. They only went out ot Glendale because they were forced to Let's just say various reasons, both related to Winnipeg and the initial plans for a move in the first place.
Winnipeg's own arena issues dated back to the early 1980s. They expanded the Winnipeg Arena in 1979 after the Jets moved from the WHA to the NHL, but I think the renovation/expansion was considered a short-term solution. The idea was always to build a new arena eventually. Things first truly came to a head in the early 1990s, to a point where Jets majority owner Barry Shenkarow worked out a deal where the provincial government paid for the team's losses up to I believe the 1996-97 season unless a new arena was built before then. Of course, the team ended up leaving a season earlier (so no paying for the 1996-97 losses), but that deal with the Province of Manitoba was the thing that kept the Jets in Winnipeg until they left in 1996.
Once things finally fell through in 1995, Shenkarow and the other three minority owners sold the team to Richard Burke and Steven Gluckstern for $65 million. Their original plan was to move the franchise to Minnesota, who lost their own NHL franchise (Minnesota North Stars) in 1993. Unfortunately for them, they couldn't get a deal done to play in either the Target Center or the St. Paul Civic Center, so they had to look elsewhere.
In comes Phoenix Suns owner Jerry Colangelo, who offered to house the team in the America West Arena. That also was likely to be a temporary solution even at that time, as the arena was built for basketball, not hockey, and AWA had something like 4,000 obstructed view seats for an arena that sat around 19,000 at the time. Hence the eventual move to Glendale, and the rest is history. In particular the Arizona Coyotes franchise, from the looks of things.  |
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Post by HMARK Center on Jun 27, 2024 17:31:08 GMT -5
And now we bid thee adieu, current season thread.
You ended, and the draft and free agency are *already* here.
Au revoir!
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