HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: Playoffs Edition part 2
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Lionel Messi coming to Inter Miami in the MLS next season...
About 5 years ago I was having a debate with my friends and told them that within 5-10 years, I thought the MLS would surpass the NHL in popularity/viewership, and they laughed at me....
It will be interesting to see much impact Messi will have in North America.
About 5 years ago I was having a debate with my friends and told them that within 5-10 years, I thought the MLS would surpass the NHL in popularity/viewership, and they laughed at me....
It will be interesting to see much impact Messi will have in North America.
DAChampion
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Perhaps as much as Beckham and Drogba?
Andrei79
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The impact will be huge. My 7 year old passionately loves soccer and Messi/Ronaldo. We'll likely go to every Montreal-Miami game and have already talked about booking plane tickets to one of the major MLS US teams (incidentally, we talked about Miami) if Messi ever decided to come over. I've never even done that with hockey outside of going to games in Ottawa to watch affordable (and available) NHL hockey.
Bigger...both of those guys weren't at Messi's level (hope there's no Beckhamites here) and they were both pretty much washed at their respect points of their careers.
the valiant effort
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Adam Michaels
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Crazy what they had to do just to extend Gavrikov
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A bit surprised at the 2 year term but I guess with the cap supposedly taking a nice jump over the next 2-3 years it does make sense for players to maybe take short term deals right now and go for more on their next contract with the higher cap in 2 or 3 years. Expecting to see more short term deals like this during this off season.
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The idea of Patrick Roy ending up in OTT or TOR is unpleasant.
Team_Spirit
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Sadly for us it only means MLS tickets will go up and the chances to compete will go down.
Habs tickets will still be $300.
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Messi is probably the most iconic athlete of all-time. Millions of people literally adore him, in the religious sense. If you were dropped in a remote village in some desert you'd be almost guaranteed to see a kid with an Argentina Messi shirt just running around. I had a latino 8yo today in a class where i was substitute and he has a tourette kind of habit of saying messimessimessimessi. I see countless PSG shirts in elementary and secondary school, the most common by far with the Albiceleste.
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Dorion loves him as long as he’s not allowed to hire a new coach until ownership comes in…
Pompeius Magnus
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Both teams are very likely to keep the staff as it is to start the season. Ottawa won't have any ability to make changes to the management until the sale process is done anyway and that's still weeks away.
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JianYang
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It's the biggest catch for MLS since Beckham.
No doubt on my mind that messi is superior player, but Beckham was transcendent in a way that I don't think messi is. We will see if messi is willing or comfortable to step outside of his box and appeal to the non football fans.
Anyways, consumer tastes will keep going towards football as we get more and more immigration. Keep an eye out for cricket too. It's a massive deal in huge population centers, and we are getting a good amount of immigration from these areas.
I'm already seeing it replace baseball diamonds where I live for the last several years.
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MarkovsKnee
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We might actually see some short term deals in UFA this year, as players know there will be significant cap jumps in 2024 & 2025, especially the younger guys (27).
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That's oof worthy.
I was hoping they'd look to former CBJ Savard, but there goes that.
I wonder what they gave up and they might be interested in a goalie.
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They definitely should be interested in a goalie. D & goaltending is absolutely priorities for them.
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