How do you plan to support the Habs?

[Habs10Habs]

A large portion of our fan base say they're okay with the losing. But will they continue to support the team? Ticket sales dropped off last season. I'd say merchandising sales dropped off as well. I'd even add television ratings dropped. I can't speak for other Habs related sites, but I can tell you numbers have dropped on our board here on HFB.

Now I know a lot of that had to do with our previous management team. With this new management team, I have seen the excitement slowly creeping back. Though I'm worried that after another season of the losses out numbering the wins. The numbers will continue to drop off. People will lose interest and find better things to do with their time and money.

Just for the record. I'm not saying you have to spend money to support the team. People support the team in their own way, which is great.

So I guess my question after all this is. How do you plan to support the team as we continue to struggle to get out of mediocracy?

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[ThaDevilGirl]

I'll keep watching the games and bitch about the team unless they're uninteresting to watch. I think that's what really hurt the team in the past years, they were boring to watch.

 

[OldCraig71]

I will watch the games and enjoy the banter of our GDTs, many of us have sat through some terrible teams and had plenty of laughs here despite the awful results. Rebuilds are not usually pretty but are necessary unless we want to continue down the same path of mediocrity that the last 30 years have given us.

 

[Redux91]

I love to watch hockey period.
Just so happens I was born HERE lol

As a baseball fan as well all I can say is
"A" team is better than NO team..

 

[Team_Spirit]

I'll buy a mini stick and a turtleneck for baby Tomas.

If that's not enough Molson can always sell the white jersey and raise the beer price am I right.

 

[Redux91]

I'll buy a mini stick and a turtleneck for baby Tomas.

If that's not enough Molson can always sell the white jersey and raise the beer price am I right.

You NEED to send this to Pleks twitter lol

 

[WeThreeKings]

Spamming every thread that Slafkovsky is a bust.

 

[Habs10Habs]

Spamming every thread that Slafkovsky is a bust.

My first thread ever??? I feel honoured

 

[CHwest]

As soon as the bin man was fired I was once again invested in the team. I hope we stay the course and do a proper rebuild. I will watch the young guys because I once again have hope for a better tomorrow.

 

[Runner77]

So I guess my question after all this is. How do you plan to support the team as we continue to struggle to get out of mediocracy?

By contributing to the cesspool that can be this place and by having survived the perilous continuum we’ve been on, over the past decade.

From a Cretinocracy to a Mediocracy.

To now, an outside the box, progressive Meritocracy.

 

[PavelBrendl]

Emotionally.

They got their RBC millions, they don’t need my money.

 

[MeanMugging91]

I'm excited to watch the young players play so ill tune in for that. Also helps that St Louis style of hockey is far more enjoyable then the previous coaches.

 

[habsgirl5000]

I don't support a business that has an inferior product, why would I?

I pay attention online, and in the media as to what the team is doing,

But as far as watching the games?.....No, I have much better things to do with my time.

I might watch 5-10 minutes of a game here and there, if I have nothing to do,

But I wouldn't be planning my day, or night around watching a game.

I will watch again when (or I should say if) the team becomes competitive.

After years of over-hyped prospects, and failures, I know better by now than to get my hopes up about any of them,

And you all should too,

Unless a prospect PROVES OTHERWISE, then I will assume they are just another fringe player.

 

[Twisted Sinister]

I'll watch as many games as I can while continuing to show up here and be a snarky bastard.

So long as the rebuild looks like it's on track. If I see signs of managerial incompetence, I'll probably bow out for a while. Tired of being a masochist for this team.

 

[Runner77]

Free bidets to the first 100 buyers of multi-game packages and now they’d have our undivided attention.

 

[ArtPeur]

Hockey has been 3rd monitor content for years now. My excitement about next season has yet to change.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Watch and cheer for losses, just hope the "ChEeRiNg FoR a LoSs Is TrOlLiNg" bs

 

[Ezpz]

Having a kid soon, I created the next generation of the fandom. I think that's enough in an era where sports viewership is declining.

 

[Habs]

A large portion of our fan base say they're okay with the losing. But will they continue to support the team? Ticket sales dropped off last season. I'd say merchandising sales dropped off as well. I'd even add television ratings dropped. I can't speak for other Habs related sites, but I can tell you numbers have dropped on our board here on HFB.

Now I know a lot of that had to do with our previous management team. With this new management team, I have seen the excitement slowly creeping back. Though I'm worried that after another season of the losses out numbering the wins. The numbers will continue to drop off. People will lose interest and find better things to do with their time and money.

Just for the record. I'm not saying you have to spend money to support the team. People support the team in their own way, which is great.

So I guess my question after all this is. How do you plan to support the team as we continue to struggle to get out of mediocracy?

i am not renewing the NHL package this year. We are going to be worse than last year, and it wasn't worth the money to watch a low scoring, non-hitting team. So I'm out until they put a product on the ice not made of the waiver wire and player acquisitions based on helping other teams get around their cap issue. This season is going to be so bad with the blueline, goaltending and I suspect massive amount of injuries to the lineup of smurfs Hughes is keeping together.

 

[Gillings]

Just by watching. I feel they get enough ad representation by me watching.

 

[Rapala]

I'll probably attend a few games with my buddy. No Merchandise and certainly No Beer. Tim Hortons being the only reasonable pricing at The Bell Centre .

I enjoyed a number of games last year under MSL and will continue watching for improvements of our on-ice product and execution. Being an advocate of the tank long before it came into vogue wins/losses won't mean a damn thing to me again this year. I want to see the players; and the posters here having fun period.

 

[Habs10Habs]

I don't support a business that has an inferior product, why would I?

I pay attention online, and in the media as to what the team is doing,

But as far as watching the games?.....No, I have much better things to do with my time.

I might watch 5-10 minutes of a game here and there, if I have nothing to do,

But I wouldn't be planning my day, or night around watching a game.

I will watch again when (or I should say if) the team becomes competitive.

After years of over-hyped prospects, and failures, I know better by now than to get my hopes up about any of them,

And you all should too,

Unless a prospect PROVES OTHERWISE, then I will assume they are just another fringe player.

Sorry Larry, I don't mean to point you out. I've been a Habs fan for many years. So, I can definitely understand where you're coming from.

Though I think it's people who feel the same way you do. Is the major reason why Molson doesn't support a full rebuild. People who will pretty much walk away from the team. Only to re-emerge once the team is competitive again. I think sometimes people forget this is a business. You lose revenue (lost tickets, television, merchandise) you replace it with things like the damn RBC patches.

For me personally, my support won't change. I'll still continue to watch as many games as I can. I'll still continue to pay ridiculous cable prices which allow me to watch the games. I'll still continue to purchase Habs merchandise because, well I have a problem. lol When I go to games, I never have to pay for tickets. So that won't change.

 

[habsgirl5000]

Though I think it's people who feel the same way you do. Is the major reason why Molson doesn't support a full rebuild.

Then the team will be a bubble team for all eternity, welcome to mediocrity people, we have permanent residence, population....us

 

[sampollock]

GO SEE the boys in EDM on Dec 3

 

[RealityHurts]

Well, to be honest, it should go both ways. They didn't seem to care about the fanbase much when they added the RBC logo. The decision should've been done with more care. Maybe they thought ticket sales would drop so they'd make up for it in another way. Well, I don't agree with what they did.

Other than that, I haven't seen a single super star in this line up in over 20 years. They haven't hired the right people to make it happen until, possibly, recently. However, at some point, as a fan, I want results

Let's also hope they don't somehow end up with 1st OA only to find some narrative to dismiss Bedard and pick someone else because of a bad stretch. That'd get old.

We can talk about it after.