Niagara Icedogs 2024-25 Season, Part II

[beastintheeast]

Just a question for all you IceDogs fans. Reading the posts from the last two days some of you seem to feel all is good in IceDogs land and the owner is going a good job. You realize the IceDogs franchise is in trouble, right? Under the Burkes, the team averaged around 4800-5000 a game. Now they are at about 3200 a game. The new owner came in and cut costs drastically. The in-game experienced declined and the last two seasons had the worst records in franchise history. People got fed up and stopped coming to the games.

The team is winning this season but fans are not coming back. The last 4 games has had 3 nights where attendance was under 3000. The IceDogs franchise is not in a good spot right now and I think attendance could even decline further next season.

I bet when someone give you a glass of coke you complain it isn't in a bottle LOL

OK Consider this the present owner got hit huge buy the OHL and walked into ateam in coplete disarray. Previous owners canned then 2 players kicked out for language on whats app.

I think there was also a loss of 1st round pick.

This guy has done what a lot of teams are afraid to do he built a franchise that should be et to win for a long time. He finally found a coach that knows what he is doing
Got players with the right mindset.
Beleive me there are a lot of GM and Scouts that are hoping he falls flat on his face because he did it his way and not buiding through trading players or getting super Euro.

Yes the last 2 years were interesting and tough BUT if you look at the team as it is you can see a team that has only 4 players drafted outside the first 4 rounds. That is not normal.

It is a team that has fire power It is a team that has a goal and that is to build so that they can be competitive year in and also have an on ice product that will at least get them a favourable look when the M Cup comes back to Ontario.

3000 may seem small but to a lot of teams it is a good number.

Getting rid of things and adding things is as always the prerequisite of the new owner.

As I have said instead of badmouthing and the doom and gloom look at your team and where it is heded witht he current coach, system and players.

As t increasing fans the old build it and they will come applies