This is right. As soon as the CT Scan revealed no serious damage, it was always going to take a while to get stitches. This is because hospitals don't work on a first come, first serve basis but rather a system where the most life threatening cases are handled first, even if they come in after you. Depending on the time, it could have also been during a shift change, which can cause delays as well.
This was actually one of my first thoughts. I was very surprised that the Stars didn't have an agreement with a local private hospital to have priority access for people injured during one of their games.
It's low hanging fruit but Quebec City Confirmed?
Yup. Spanish and French have mostly the same word order, which differs from English. Adjectives come after the nouns in Spanish.Well doing a Google translate, in Spanish it would read 'Liga Nacional de Hockey'.
The marketing to the Hispanic community is in full force.....or they're moving to Mexico City next year...YMMV
By your definition, every team that has failed in the NHL was viable up until the day they ceased to be part of the League. Interesting.
Take your pick on which road we take. We can take the road where we talk about how ridiculous it is for a team to have several hundred million dollars in debt, no arena, had horrible attendance WITH minor league level pricing (prior to Mullet arena where they have horrible attendance WITHOUT minor league level pricing), a history of ownership issues, a current owner that has question marks, receives max revenue sharing, horrible tv numbers, and is losing 10's of millions of dollars a year, yet somehow that's considered viable to you.
Rarely will you ever hear me defend the "fans" of the valley, but had the lock out not happened and the subsequent loss of promised all star game ( I know, silly, but not so much for the casual fan), not to mention the following economic collapse, forcing the sell off of the Westgate ED, things would more likely than not, look differently today.
I don't believe teams travel with their medical staff, for numerous reasons, ability to practice in different states just being one. I do think they should have had a team advocate available to him, but then again, he may be a pro athlete, but still no different than the common man... one pant leg at a time stuff. So does he really deserve preferential treatment, particularly when the hospital (apparently) had no surgeon to work on him?
To hell with protocol, if true, the Stars lacked common decency.
Ah, I see where you are coming from and would not put it past the asshats to tell the advocate to just get him a room at the motel 6!
It's low hanging fruit but Quebec City Confirmed?
You absolutely are: Growth of the game.
I mean the economic collapse was 2008/09. I get the trauma of the bankruptcy but even that was resolved in 2012. I also understand that Glendale wasn't ideal because the fan base was on the other side of the valley. After over a decade in Glendale shouldn't they have been able to build a fan base on that side of town? Shouldn't the fans on the other side who somehow couldn't make the trek from Scottsdale at least been watching on TV?
Depends on your definition of resolved, I guess. Like I said, you won’t find medefending valley “fans,” just pointing out that things would be further along.... It takes quite some time here, I've seen it with the Suns.
During the Cupcake Summit, Goldwater Institute brought up the possibility of a minor league team at Glendale Arena and the mayor said they had 5 minor league teams over the years that all failed. Obviously the two that existed at the same time as the Coyotes wouldn't have a chance but there is no evidence to indicate the market will support a team.
Has the market (whole region) showed they can support an NHL team?
