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Around the League 2020-21 Part 3, Trade Deadline Edition

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If they are dumb enough or cheap enough to lose Tocchet maybe they are dumb enough to move Chychrun. We have tons of picks and prospects that they must be craving.
 
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funky said:
If they are dumb enough or cheap enough to lose Tocchet maybe they are dumb enough to move Chychrun. We have tons of picks and prospects that they must be craving.
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I don't think Bill Armstrong is that much of an idiot to trade him (Chychrun is a stud and already is OEL's replacement).

Dude always pots one against LA this season.
 
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The Coyotes are an embarrassment.
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Honestly when you see the salaries “established” coaches get vs first time head couches I get it. I mean there are coaches making 5 times their peers for similar results. How many coaches in recent years have been first time cup winners when they won the Stanley Cup? I feel like as the game continues to evolve, you have to start reaching out of the retreads. Very similar to Mcvay in the NFL.
 
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KingLB said:
Honestly when you see the salaries “established” coaches get vs first time head couches I get it. I mean there are coaches making 5 times their peers for similar results. How many coaches in recent years have been first time cup winners when they won the Stanley Cup? I feel like as the game continues to evolve, you have to start reaching out of the retreads. Very similar to Mcvay in the NFL.
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I can't even believe Arizona still has a hockey team. Getting rid of Tocchet just adds to the revolving door halfway house aura. They can't fill their building, the team sucks, and there's constant turnover. I bet the Roadrunners get a bigger crowd.

Their last couple home games against LA and Vegas might as well been home games for the road team. 80% of the allowable crowd were road fans. It's gotten to the point I honestly disdain them. Marchessault was mocking the arena. You think after a nearly year long lockdown they'd at least have a capacity crowd that is all home fans. Nope.

 
Lol yotes started letting fans in this season and that's the same amount of fans that watch their games in a normal season. :laugh: 90% empty.
 
They're allowing 8,000 fans and tons of the people in the building are from LA or Vegas. Based on what I see on TV there's probably less than 4,000 actual Coyotes fans in the building, EMBARRASSING!!!

Gila River Arena is really nice though and I like the surrounding shopping/dining. I've seen a few concerts there.
 
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They're allowing 8,000 fans and tons of the people in the building are from LA or Vegas. Based on what I see on TV there's probably less than 4,000 actual Coyotes fans in the building, EMBARRASSING!!!

Gila River Arena is really nice though and I like the surrounding shopping/dining. I've seen a few concerts there.
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It is embarrassing but Bettman will never move them, and show his mistake. Same with the Panthers. Good team, good coach, no fans in the seats. I wonder how many will show up forthe playoffs. Two teams in Fla, is 1 too many.
Panthers should be in Hamilton or Quebec.

Rumor last year was Coyotes going to Houston.
 
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It is embarrassing but Bettman will never move them, and show his mistake. Same with the Panthers. Good team, good coach, no fans in the seats. I wonder how many will show up forthe playoffs. Two teams in Fla, is 1 too many.
Panthers should be in Hamilton or Quebec.

Rumor last year was Coyotes going to Houston.
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Dee, I wish but it will never happen. Too many politics involved with Toronto and Buffalo.

I was gutted when the NHL chose Ottawa over us back in the early 90's for expansion. I recall rushing home from school that day and asking my parents if they heard any news and my dad told me Ottawa and Tampa got teams, I felt my heart sink. We had put deposits down on season seats and I believe my brother had a gig lined up as part of the crew who did the ice resurfacing in between periods. Haha

I know I gave up hope long ago as did most Hamiltonians.

Hamilton has been down the NHL aisle many times since the Hamilton Tigers left in 1925, but never made it to the alter:

1925
HAMILTON TIGERS
What happened: The players went on strike on the eve of the NHL playoffs, seeking an additional $200 pay for playing an extra six games during the regular season. The team balked, the league backed the management. The players wouldn't budge and were suspended. Shortly after the season, the team's assets were sold as part of league expansion, becoming the New York Americans.

Late 1970s
COLORADO ROCKIES
What happened: Some say if Jack MacDonald had been re-elected mayor in 1980, the Rockies would have ended up in Hamilton. Instead, they ended up as the New Jersey Devils in 1982.

*The above is a true story! :laugh: My brother went to school with a player who was on the Rockies and he told him back in the day it was close.

1983-84
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS
What happened: With Copps Coliseum under construction, several business interests were linked to the struggling Penguins, including Bill Ballard, son of the Toronto Maple Leafs owner. The Penguins drafted Mario Lemieux in 1984, and never moved.

1991
NHL expansion
What happened: Tim Hortons mogul Ron Joyce was backing a Hamilton bid for a team, but reports said he lost out when he sought to stagger the payments on the $50-million expansion fee the league was seeking.

2003
Ottawa Senators
What happened: With the Senators in bankruptcy, a Toronto group was approached about buying the team and moving the team to Hamilton. Instead, Eugene Melnyk bought the team and kept it in Ottawa.

2006
Penguins
What happened: Canadian businessman Jim Balsillie reached an agreement to buy the Penguins that October, but withdrew the bid in December, when the NHL insisted he keep the team in Pittsburgh.

2007
Nashville Predators
What happened: Balsillie reached a tentative agreement to buy the Predators and even accepted deposits for season tickets for a team playing out of Copps, where he had secured a lease. Then-Predators owner Craig Leipold - reportedly under pressure from the NHL - decided not to go forward with the deal and the team was sold to a local group.

2009
Phoenix Coyotes
What happened: Balsillie offers to buy the Coyotes out of bankruptcy and move them to Hamilton. Process was before the U.S. courts. The Coyotes remained in the desert.

Courtesy Globe and Mail staff
 
Perhaps it is time for the NHL to consider contraction, rather than expansion.

The fans of the contracted teams wouldn't be large in numbers, and the hockey for the fans would be better with fewer teams and say the bottom 10% of NHL players sent back to the minors.
 
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