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Smirnov2Chistov said:
lmao, we are literally discussing this on the Business board. Your take is wrong

it really wasn’t about attendance, it was more of the ownership group that wanted to sell its assets and wanted nothing to do with hockey.
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Oh, you're discussing it on the BOH board? Well that seals it then.

Still, I wonder why the ownership group wanted to get rid of such a great asset where the fans were coming to games all the time. Prob no reason! Ah well.
 
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The Midnight Burrito said:
Oh, you're discussing it on the BOH board? Well that seals it then.

Still, I wonder why the ownership group wanted to get rid of such a great asset where the fans were coming to games all the time. Prob no reason! Ah well.
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Again, the ownership group wanted to get rid of the Thrashers asset no matter what. Didn’t have to do with fans
 
atlanta spirit group never wanted to own the thrashers. they only bought the team because they basically had to in order to purchase the hawks and the arena. they couldn't care less about the team and tried finding buyers for them for years before they were sold to true north

attendance was not the reason they left town
 
My understanding is that attendance also went down due to that. Other reasons too, to be sure, like the 2008 economy crash for one, but having an ownership that was known not to give a damn must not have helped. Fans know these things, and become very apathetic very fast if an owner is known not to give a damn.

Your team has to have a legacy for people to be willing to stick through the hard times. A decade-old franchise with nothing but awful results doesn't generate that. Especially in a city that has already lost a franchise once.

You can tell by looking at the attendance numbers. First season almost completely sold out. Second season, still strong. Then gradual decline, only for the building to be sold out again when they make the playoffs once. Utter collapse at the end. Doesn't sound like an uncaring market to me, sounds more like they just got let down as consumers.
 
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I really think the Ducks are playing better than the Rangers as of late. Ducks don‘t have the roster to really be competitive , but they are at least putting in the effort.
 
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Dryish said:
My understanding is that attendance also went down due to that. Other reasons too, to be sure, like the 2008 economy crash for one, but having an ownership that was known not to give a damn must not have helped. Fans know these things, and become very apathetic very fast if an owner is known not to give a damn.

Your team has to have a legacy for people to be willing to stick through the hard times. A decade-old franchise with nothing but awful results doesn't generate that. Especially in a city that has already lost a franchise once.

You can tell by looking at the attendance numbers. First season almost completely sold out. Second season, still strong. Then gradual decline, only for the building to be sold out again when they make the playoffs once. Utter collapse at the end. Doesn't sound like an uncaring market to me, sounds more like they just got let down as consumers.
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I recognize that this is the narrative that's been sort of birth-of-a-nation'd into existence on the internet since the team left but it's ridiculous, an obvious oversimplification. They had arguably the second best player in the game playing there as a draw, and supposedly terrible management desperately offered him a nine (!) figure contract to stick around. Any fanbase has some excuse to not attend games (lousy owners, lousy team, whatever), they either take it or they don't.

I have to wonder if the Atlanta franchise's second failure led in part to the more favorable expansion team rules for Vegas and Seattle, essentially not wanting to leave it up to a fickle fanbase if they want to support a lousy team past the expansion honeymoon.
 
The Duck Knight said:
Tuch has been with Thompson for most of that time. Eichel has had a healthy Stone for about 15 games and the rest of the time a collection of spare parts that don't fit on his wings. Lately it's finally settled down as Barbashev has fit in nicely with him at LW.
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That would explain it.
 
Arizona's rookie LW Maccelli is keeping pace with Beniers and McTavish in the rookie race. In fact, Maccelli's scoring rate is the highest.

SEA Beniers: 65 games, 48 pts (19g + 29a), 0.738
ANA McTavish: 66 games, 40 pts (16g + 24a), 0.606 ppg
ARI Maccelli: 50 games, 37 pts (6g + 31a), 0.740 ppg
 
Hockey Duckie said:
Arizona's rookie LW Maccelli is keeping pace with Beniers and McTavish in the rookie race. In fact, Maccelli's scoring rate is the highest.

SEA Beniers: 65 games, 48 pts (19g + 29a), 0.738
ANA McTavish: 66 games, 40 pts (16g + 24a), 0.606 ppg
ARI Maccelli: 50 games, 37 pts (6g + 31a), 0.740 ppg
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Too bad he got injured and missed a lot of games. Probably won't get much Calder votes even if his scoring rate is highest at the end of the season.
 
duxfan1101 said:
This Blues-Wild game is crazy. Binnington doing Binnington things and Ryan Hartman, as always, antagonizing people while refusing to drop his gloves.
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The discourse on Twitter about Binnington and his antics is equally entertaining. Seems like a really divisive guy.

I'm sure I'd care more if he pulled that shit against us, but it hasn't happened yet. Just seems funny to me every time he does something and people on both sides lose their minds just as much as he does.
 
A while ago I was convinced that Nashville will miss the playoffs. Now, with the Jets falling off a cliff and they playing each other now with Nashville leading after two periods and having games in hand... man Josi might not go to the World Championship after all.

Man I bought tickets to 2 Swiss games just to see him, he will troll me AGAIN after getting Nino to not sign with us? :laugh: Josi is becoming my nightmare, the tickets are expensive :laugh: What other ways to troll me will he find next????
 
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