FriendlyGhost92
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I've seen this episode before...
Expectation:
Reality:
As a Sabres fan maybe he wants to explain the current situation in Buffalo? Terrible market, or terrible management has pushed STHs away?Still avoiding explaining your ridiculous statement about cold-weather teams never having attendance issues...got it. Winnipeg, Hartford, and Quebec lost multiple franchises. And to get back to topic, it was reported and discussed earlier that the Coyotes were profitable last year. So, just keep being wrong.
Construction can move quickly in Arizona because there are no cold weather concerns.
For example, to build the arena in Glendale, groundbreaking was in April 2002 and it opened its doors in December 2003.
Construction can move quickly in Arizona because there are no cold weather concerns.
For example, to build the arena in Glendale, groundbreaking was in April 2002 and it opened its doors in December 2003.
Everyone here in the Carolinas would kill to bring Richardson back from the dead to own the Panthers again. Workplace issues aside, he actually cared about the team. It's univerally agreed around here that Tepper has taken over as the NFL's worst owner, and it's not even close. The only good thing Tepper has done is bring Charlotte an MLS team. Anything related to the Panthers has been an unmitigated disaster under his reign of terror. He's a self-centered attention whore who is completely clueless when it comes to running an NFL team.The NFL has David Tepper as an owner. OK'd him with much fanfare, after original owner Jerry Richardson had to sell the team for sexual and racial harassment in the team's workplace. He's already showing he's a goddamn disaster as an owner. Pretty sure nothing in his background suggested he'd be this f***ing bad. [Just like I'm pretty sure nothing in Richardson's background suggested he was a serial sexual / racial harrasser, or would become one.] The NFL can't do a f***ing thing about it until he runs afoul of league rules.
MLB expanded in 1993 in large part to pay the penalties for collusion vs. MLBPA in the 1980s.This right here is the reason Bettman & the owners. Continues to pound that square peg in the round hole.
Then quit listening.What part of hockey fan are you people not getting. 30 years of distraction, 30 years of false starts, 30 years of endless promises and 30 years of media reporting in the same subject.
for those questioning the annoyance at the 30 year battle to get Arizona a proper place? Where was the 30 year battle to save the Nords or the OG Jets? NHL rolled over and played dead when those teams got into trouble. The only reason Edmonton still has the oilers is because at the 11th hour, a consortium of Edmonton business and private individuals raised enough capital to keep the team in Edmonton. The oilers were maybe 12 hours away from moving to Edmonton. As a fan who nearly lost their team and has seen 2 other Canadian teams relocate..I see a double standard being put in place here.
The NHL sees the Canadian market as being maxed out, and the USA as being a place where it can grow. It's all about the potential for growth.for those questioning the annoyance at the 30 year battle to get Arizona a proper place? Where was the 30 year battle to save the Nords or the OG Jets? NHL rolled over and played dead when those teams got into trouble. The only reason Edmonton still has the oilers is because at the 11th hour, a consortium of Edmonton business and private individuals raised enough capital to keep the team in Edmonton. The oilers were maybe 12 hours away from moving to Edmonton. As a fan who nearly lost their team and has seen 2 other Canadian teams relocate..I see a double standard being put in place here.
for those questioning the annoyance at the 30 year battle to get Arizona a proper place? Where was the 30 year battle to save the Nords or the OG Jets? NHL rolled over and played dead when those teams got into trouble. The only reason Edmonton still has the oilers is because at the 11th hour, a consortium of Edmonton business and private individuals raised enough capital to keep the team in Edmonton. The oilers were maybe 12 hours away from moving to Edmonton. As a fan who nearly lost their team and has seen 2 other Canadian teams relocate..I see a double standard being put in place here.
1. The league tried to find a local buyer. No one wanted Quebec, no one showed up for Winnipeg until after the sale was announced.for those questioning the annoyance at the 30 year battle to get Arizona a proper place? Where was the 30 year battle to save the Nords or the OG Jets?
The "maybe 12 hours away from moving" line wasn't a league-imposed thing. It was was a contractual deadline imposed on Pocklington through the lease he had at Northlands Coliseum. It stipulated that Pocklington couldn't move the team or sell the team to someone who intended to move it, without an ownership group interested in keeping the team in Edmonton from having a chance to do so. That was a 6-week timeline.The only reason Edmonton still has the oilers is because at the 11th hour, a consortium of Edmonton business and private individuals raised enough capital to keep the team in Edmonton. The oilers were maybe 12 hours away from moving to Edmonton.
As a fan who's seen an American team relocated to Canada, ..... wait, I bet that's different.As a fan who nearly lost their team and has seen 2 other Canadian teams relocate..I see a double stanard being put in place here.
People just feel it's their duty to come on here every so often and whine about this subject. Even for over a dozen years after some places that lost teams got new ones. Just laugh at them and move on.Where were they gonna move? I don't remember this story, although sometimes it's hard to keep track of all the "close calls" that have happened with regards to relocation.
Also, goddamn you're almost at 100k posts!
It sure would be something that a franchise that has used up more than its 9 lives and is playing out of a university-sized arena would all of a sudden have one of the best arena districts in the entire league (based on the renderings).
I'm not the least bit convinced this will come to fruition. But if this plan too falls through, then something has to (finally?) give.
The whole district looks nice, if they could even do half that. Still a long way to go, but I hope things start falling into place for the Yotes.
Look the entertainment district Vegas built around their arena.... so ahead of the game, they built the district first.The district is normally a bunch of bullshit to sell the government on financing their arena lol.
Yup.
Instead let them be Nightmares..Never give up. Never surrender. Don't let your dreams be dreams.
The league could've taken ownership of the Jets, for let's say...4 years, until the new arena would've been built.
If I recall correctly, when the lease was up on Gila River Arena, the city of Glendale, knowing the Yotes wanted to move to Tempe, only offered a 20 year lease.What was the issue with the Glendale rink? I know there was some bad blood between the team and the city but with the situation so dire couldn’t they try and work something out with Glendale so they can actually play in a suitable arena?
I may be misremembering but I seem to recall that the arenas location was one of the reason given for poor attendance as it was a bit out of the way but it’s right next to the Cardinals stadium so that seems like strange reasoning, and wouldnt this new potential arena location be even further out of the way then the Glendale location?
The official statement:What was the issue with the Glendale rink? I know there was some bad blood between the team and the city but with the situation so dire couldn’t they try and work something out with Glendale so they can actually play in a suitable arena?
Statement from the City of Glendale said:With an increased focus on larger, more impactful events and uses of the city-owned arena, the city of Glendale has chosen to not renew the operating agreement for the Arizona Coyotes beyond the coming 2021-22 season.