Honestly, I don't blame him.
When Gary was hired the owners wanted him to grow the game. He's done a good job at it. The number of American players is growing. In fact I believe the number of youth registered players in the US is higher than Canada.
A widespread occurrence here and everywhere, two or three people of a group saying something simply becomes “all of them” to some people.
Kill Wild Thing! was the sentiment I remember most.
That will always be the biggest difference.
And the former ownership didn’t give a shit about any of it.
Idk there's quite number of billionaires in Canada or it could be an ownership group like many sports teams in the past have done. The Leafs and Sabres are definitely an obstacle to overcome but they just need to be told to f*** off.
Maybe somethings going right over my head because I was only born in one of these years, but what is the point youre trying to make here?
Maybe...just maybe....money matters more than it used to. 30% of 10m is a lot more money lost than 30% of 3m. Idk why Florida fans try to downplay the location and tax advantage.
The number of people is not what determines the size of a market. For example, Congo is not a good market for ice hockey expansion even if it has 100 million people.
what i meant is that Canadian teams also can have declining attendance, its
In that case I agree with you. I'm not one of the people shitting on the sunbelt teams
I dont know how NHL does business, but every business seem to look for growth and thinking long term, in hindsight it would probably been good to have had a team
Getting paid millions and residing in luxury hotels to play hockey isn’t difficult no matter how you try to frame this.
Lets ask Florida residents if they want to add a 30% tax to their income since it doesn't matter?
You guys act like you are somehow superior to us. When it is simply not true.See, but those top two lines I hi-lighted are EXACTLY the reason people talk like that.
I grew up learning to skate on the frozen septic field until the dugout was safe enough ffs. I mean, my story here is not unique. While I never actually played competitive hockey (parents never had the money) I spent as much time as I could playing outdoor shinny. Sometimes even when temperatures hit close to -30 and you were taking real shifts in and out of the shack
The NHL will always have fans like us up north.. Look at Oilers fans still selling out Rogers/Northlands when missing playofffs for a decade. Or Toronto. But that there is also part of the resentment. I mean, they don' need to cater to us. They will always have us. Even when jerseys are thrown on the ice. And that for the most part leads to sense of a lack of appreciation.
Then there is the bottom lines....where you can't just state your case without being a clueless dink,
Don't worry everybody knows it's just crybaby canadians crying again. We aren't all like that
Will Florida winning a cup make hockey there cheaper? No
Matthews played hockey regardless if Arizona won the cup or not. A Canadian winning the cup will create more attention, coverage and celebration. In this day and age, you don’t need your city to win a cup to be exposed to hockey. If Montreal wins, the sheer amount of attention on that within Quebec might actually inspire more people to play, if anything.
