Around the NHL 2024-25 regular season

[Brodeur]

As one of the few on here who actually is interested in this and wanted to buy tickets in advance the prices are outrageous. I can't justify buying tickets for this at these prices. Maybe the secondary market will adjust if the interest in this tournament is truly as low as this thread makes it appear to be.

I was looking to buy USA vs Sweden and the final championship game, the cheapest prices are listed per ticket before all the horrible ticketmaster fees...

Thanks for posting, I didn't know the pre-sale had started. I had a silly idea about making a long weekend of it after seeing the doubleheader on President's Day. Flights were a bit more than I could justify and that was before looking at game tickets.

Hypothetically:

2/14: (F) UMass @ Boston College
2/15: (S) Providence @ Boston University
2/16: (S)
2/17: (M) Canada/Finland, Sweden/USA

 

[Its Always Sundstrom]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1850378260598624462

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851423397370003462

hope its Igor 8 x $15

 

[MadDevil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1851757996080083418

 

[Guttersniped]

Don Waddell keeps Halloween in his heart.

 

[Emperoreddy]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852040877151039709

 

[Goptor]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852040877151039709

Talks about NHL but not the Pirates winning the world series.

 

[Bleedred]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1852040877151039709

I'm pretty sure they put out something like this last year and had us winning at least one of the next 5 cups.

I'm pretty sure Toronto are the only team in that bunch that look to be anything close to a serious contender. The Yzerfail I mean plan winning the cup in 2 seasons from now? Really?

I don't think the Kings are a contender this year or next, Chicago will need more than 2 more years after this one to be that good and Minnesota in 2029 seems like a shot in the dark. Too early to rule out a 2029 cup for the Wild, but seems like a random 8 ball shake.

I don't follow the other sports enough, but they clearly cheated with that Dodgers in 2024 one, since the date on that was the 31st of October and the Dodgers won on the 30th of October lol. That looks like the free spot on a bingo card with that one. Why didn't they just start at 2025 with the MLB like they did with all the other leagues?

 

[JrFischer54]

i will never understand the need to play a pair of regular season games overseas in the middle of the season. you want to play a pair to start it? sure you can make that work but to play in the middle of the season? just stupid! then again we are going to shut the league down so 4 nations can play a tournament in the middle of the season.


at least they got it right with two out of conference teams playing each other so that fills their yearly matchup.

 

[njdevils1982]

i will never understand the need to play a pair of regular season games overseas in the middle of the season. you want to play a pair to start it? sure you can make that work but to play in the middle of the season? just stupid! then again we are going to shut the league down so 4 nations can play a tournament in the middle of the season.


at least they got it right with two out of conference teams playing each other so that fills their yearly matchup.

its all stupid. prague nonsense and a two week break in february.

lobotomize gary

 

[Brodeur]

I don't mind the two week break. Not coincidentally they planned it to start right after the Super Bowl to try to fill that sports void (mix in NBA taking a break the following weekend for their All-Star weekend).

I know how much the 1996 World Cup helped make me a bigger fan back in the day. Probably before the Internet, I had no idea which players were American or Canadian. It might be a nice Olympic appetizer for some young fans who haven't seen a best on best, even if it's a truncated tournament.

I don't remember which sports radio show it was, but the host had a comment that hockey/NHL has the same level of die hards as the other sports but it just struggles with attracting the casual viewer. Breaking out Team USA for a handful of games would be a better draw for ESPN than say a run of the mill regular season game.

 

[Camille the Eel]

i will never understand the need to play a pair of regular season games overseas in the middle of the season. you want to play a pair to start it? sure you can make that work but to play in the middle of the season? just stupid! then again we are going to shut the league down so 4 nations can play a tournament in the middle of the season.


at least they got it right with two out of conference teams playing each other so that fills their yearly matchup.

Another question is whether the league wants to allow fist fighting and cheap shots (elbows to the head, slashing for the sake of inflicting pain, not accidentally) during the European games to the same degree they encourage it here. To the point where the NHL network, after all the league, actually replays fights on its game night wrap-up shows as prominently as it replays goals.

The NHL idea behind these European games is I imagine marketing the brand oversees, with an eye to television revenues (like the premier league is popular hear in soccer - I can't see actual expansion franchises in that geographic area). So do Bettman and his marketing people (since I assume marketing is driving this) actually sit down and decide how they see the brand over there? I can't believe that European hockey currently tolerates the same degree of serendipitous extra-action violence, especially fist fights, that the North American audience currently sees and now even likes.

 

[Satans Hockey]

I don't mind the two week break. Not coincidentally they planned it to start right after the Super Bowl to try to fill that sports void (mix in NBA taking a break the following weekend for their All-Star weekend).

I know how much the 1996 World Cup helped make me a bigger fan back in the day. Probably before the Internet, I had no idea which players were American or Canadian. It might be a nice Olympic appetizer for some young fans who haven't seen a best on best, even if it's a truncated tournament.

I don't remember which sports radio show it was, but the host had a comment that hockey/NHL has the same level of die hards as the other sports but it just struggles with attracting the casual viewer. Breaking out Team USA for a handful of games would be a better draw for ESPN than say a run of the mill regular season game.

I'd love to go to the four nations tournament in Boston to see the US play but prices are insane.

 

[JrFischer54]

nhl just has to accept the fact that the needle will never move in terms of popularity in our lifetimes. if sid scoring that overtime gold medal goal during primetime live in north America didn't move the needle then playing some regular season games overseas isn't nor is playing an in season national tournament won't. i also guarantee stopping the season and flying to the other side of the world to play in the olympics won't either. all these outside countries have legitimate hockey leagues of their own just be happy where the product is now enjoy the billion dollar franchises and try and fix the game at home. i'm not saying don't do any of those things but find a way to do them without interrupting the season. as stupid as it sounds i would much rather hockey be played in the summer olympics then have them shut down to go play there. its amazing you can't get any basketball players to go play but hockey players absolutely want to go play.

 

[MadDevil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1853501695667421621

Novo with the not so subtle jab at Lindy.