Non-Minnesota NHL News XI

[Uberdachen]

A 10% filled Joe is still 9x more populous than the rest of Detroit.

Man, I'd give anything for their ticket deals. You can take a family of four twice with food and drinks for the price of one Wild vs. the Garbageville Stinkrapes seat that's placed between a toilet and the guy sitting on it.

 

[GopherState]

This might be the dumbest hockey article I've read - http://www.mlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/05/nhl_misses_the_mark_with_suspe.html

 

[tomgilbertfan]

This might be the dumbest hockey article I've read - http://www.mlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/05/nhl_misses_the_mark_with_suspe.html

 

[Jarick]

And people rip on Souhan

Wow.

 

[forthewild]

I wonder if this guy had to have his stomach pumped after writing the last paragraph on being a wings fan....

There is no way you can sit here and call that a clean hit. You want to point out other cheap shot artists like say Correy Perry, sure do it. This isn't the way tho.

WoW the above GIF is perfect

 

[Paul Bunyan]

This. I have always wondered how there can be so many seats open in the lower bowl in "hockey town" ...granted they have a great following but it's sad they can't fill those seats. I don't see that problem in many other cities in the playoffs

Their following is overrated. There is little to no hockey coverage year round, unless they are in the playoffs when the bandwagon starts or unless they are tanking and radio is forced to talk about it.

My friend sent me a text this year lamenting the fact he had to request they put the Wings game on in the bar this season and he's like "they try to call this Hockeytown?"

Also, it's not Hockey Town. That's Warroad. Detroit couldn't be further from it. I wanted to punch Lapanta in the face when he said that on live TV. Sorry, you don't have to encourage name stealing.

I hate the Packers, but I wouldn't want any other town to be called Title Town other than Green Bay (even ESPN tried to "create" a new one). Just leave it.

It used to have a great atmosphere for games back when they were the Yankees of the NHL and I'd sit in the seats and root for them to lose every time, and then slowly but surely the suits crept in, the prices went up, the Joe went to garbage it's really not a good stadium anymore. That was every team in every league in every sport though, as American sports became neutered and more expensive. Also their parking especially if you are in the Joe's Ramp is ridiculous.

You can be stuck in there for two hours or more if you don't leave early, which is a better excuse than "school night" which I've heard from some fans here. My Dad when he was alive wouldn't have even thought that we wouldn't have stayed for the entire game, even my Mom. School night or not, this was Minnesota sports, that's what we did.

Though, my friends ("actual" Red Wings fans) and I would always go and stay for the whole thing. I've sat in those seats for more Wild blowouts than I can count, but it's mainly a myth, as is the name stealing and copyright of "Hockeytown" which just made my hatred for them become more intense as a transplanted Minnesotan who had to grow up there.

 

[Uberdachen]

This might be the dumbest hockey article I've read - http://www.mlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/05/nhl_misses_the_mark_with_suspe.html

From the point of view of everything supporting his closing paragraphs about his level of Red Wings fandom, it was pretty solid.

 

[AKL]

This might be the dumbest hockey article I've read - http://www.mlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/05/nhl_misses_the_mark_with_suspe.html

No it's obviously a joke article. See:

The Red Wings — like most teams from Detroit — get no national media love or attention from the NHL.

 

[Avder]

This might be the dumbest hockey article I've read - http://www.mlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/05/nhl_misses_the_mark_with_suspe.html

He must be on something. Detroit is one of the leagues golden children. It's one of two western conference teams that get regular air time on NBC. It gets away with more interference penalties than the rest of the league combined. Hell, it probably got gifted into the playoffs by a few game changing calls in their favor in the last couple games of the season. Remember, one more loss, and Columbus gets the 8 seed and we get the 7.

He is right about one thing tho. NHL network is garbage except for games. And the NHL does not have a clue on how to market hockey to the US. It's too bad the Red Wings dont really have a clue to market hockey to Detroit either. I mean come on, you've got an original 6 team with a storied history, and the longest current playoff streak in professional sports, and you can only fill your arena to half of its capacity? Do corporations buy tickets just for prestige or something? What a joke. Detroit doesn't have a real fan base. If they did, their fans wouldnt have to ask for the game to be on in a bar, it would just be on to begin with.

The Joe is a hellhole and so is the area it's stuck in. The team is in a steep decline and I think next year they miss the playoffs for the first time in years. Their fanbase will dry up as they get stuck in the same rebuilding slump every team gets stuck in once in a while, and who knows what happens when ticket sales finally drop off and NBC stops putting their games on TV because no one wants to watch a bunch of losers.

Wouldnt it be funny if it got so bad that their owners would start to whisper of relocation plans? I know it would never happen, but wouldnt that just be a riot?

 

[Uberdachen]

It really is too bad the Red Wings don't have enough solid stinker seasons for its die hard fans to log enough Sim City hours to be able to properly improve the area around the Joe.

 

[Avder]

Whenever I played the Detroit scenario on the SNES Sim City I would just use the money code, bulldoze the whole town, and rebuild it using the whole landform, including the Canadian side of the map.

 

[Uberdachen]

On that note, something that blows my mind about Detroit: The area of the vacant properties inside Detroit is larger than Boston.

 

[Avder]

On that note, something that blows my mind about Detroit: The area of the vacant properties inside Detroit is larger than Boston.

Really? Is there an article somewhere detailing this?

 

[Paul Bunyan]

He must be on something. Detroit is one of the leagues golden children. It's one of two western conference teams that get regular air time on NBC. It gets away with more interference penalties than the rest of the league combined. Hell, it probably got gifted into the playoffs by a few game changing calls in their favor in the last couple games of the season. Remember, one more loss, and Columbus gets the 8 seed and we get the 7.

He is right about one thing tho. NHL network is garbage except for games. And the NHL does not have a clue on how to market hockey to the US. It's too bad the Red Wings dont really have a clue to market hockey to Detroit either. I mean come on, you've got an original 6 team with a storied history, and the longest current playoff streak in professional sports, and you can only fill your arena to half of its capacity? Do corporations buy tickets just for prestige or something? What a joke. Detroit doesn't have a real fan base. If they did, their fans wouldnt have to ask for the game to be on in a bar, it would just be on to begin with.

The Joe is a hellhole and so is the area it's stuck in. The team is in a steep decline and I think next year they miss the playoffs for the first time in years. Their fanbase will dry up as they get stuck in the same rebuilding slump every team gets stuck in once in a while, and who knows what happens when ticket sales finally drop off and NBC stops putting their games on TV because no one wants to watch a bunch of losers.

Wouldnt it be funny if it got so bad that their owners would start to whisper of relocation plans? I know it would never happen, but wouldnt that just be a riot?

Hockey just isn't that big of a deal there. The only reason the games at the Big House sell is because it's an "event", not because those are actual college hockey fans.

Here, people are spoiled a bit in terms of hockey coverage. I've had a lot of friends visit me in the past two months from the Detroit and Toledo (fake Detroit) area, and those that were hockey fans were SHOCKED that they went to games and people knew what they were talking about and could talk to them about the game.

Everything from like a 7 year old kid, to a girl high school hockey player to a 80 year old man who has been watching for years. I mean, I grew up in the Detroit area after being forcibly moved, but I've gotten into like hour long conversations at random places because I'll wear a North Stars hat, and then this guy wants to tell me about when he went to see them in their first season with his Dad. Those conversations do not happen in Detroit.

That when we were out and about people would talk hockey randomly, and that they had sports chatter on the radio. The fact the HS tournament is a MASSIVE deal as is or now rather was...the WCHA.

It's a completely different world. I look at us as a halfway house to Canada in terms of hockey, no where else I've been is this into their hockey at all levels (including Boston).

My friends (actual fans that could name Red Wings prospects in the ECHL and things of that nature) actually wanted them to miss this year just to shed off a lot of bandwagoners that join during the playoffs.

Detroit I think is the biggest myth in the NHL.

 

[Haite]

Been watching the Pens-Isles game for less than 10 minutes and so far the Pens have gotten away with a slash, too many men on ice and maybe an interference. And they had a quick whistle in their favor too. Almost like our third period in game 3 .

 

[Haite]

And Strait makes it 1-0. Also, Crosby shaken up after getting a puck deflected up high. At least he's wearing a full face mask, seems to be okay.

E: Neal ties it after 40s.

 

[Wild48]

Nice goal for Subban. 1-0 Montreal

Not the gong show i was hoping for yet.

 

[Haite]

Interesting series of events as MacDonald got a holding penalty in front of Islanders' net. To add injury to insult, he received a shot to his wrist while holding Morrow, and had to head off the ice.

 

[Haite]

Both Nabokov and Fleury letting softies left and right.

 

[Avder]

That sounds like Fleury, but I thought Nabokov was better than that.

 

[Haite]

That sounds like Fleury, but I thought Nabokov was better than that.

To be fair to Nabokov, when I sent that message he let in a goal that looked soft initially was deflected right in front of him. But don't get me started on Fleury.

 

[Sportsfan1]

Fleury was the REASON along with Malkin the pens won in 09, I know their defense is worse in front of him now compared to then, but still amazes me how far he's fallen. I don't get it.

Red Wings/******** most entertaining game of the night last night, great win for Detroit!

Nucks 40 minutes away from golfing again, whoo!

 

[Avder]

I hope the Ducks and Wings go 7 and beat eachother to a pulp, so whoever gets the winner in the 2nd round gets an easy sweep.

 

[Avder]

Sharks tie it.

This night may have a silver lining. We could still end up playing later in the year than those choke artists.

 

[Avder]

Sharks going to OT.