sneakytitz
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Man these hats look so good. Gonna have to get them all.
Potential Atlanta NHL Expansion Team Thread
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GreenHornet
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Hoping to make it to Sunday's game. Saturday's game, BTW, will be telecast on Peachtree Sports Network (if you're able to get it).
I'd rather them bring back the Gwinnett Gladiators color scheme and branding and jerseys. It got so much worse when they became Atlanta. The original jerseys were fantastic.
Top scorer all time for the team Derek Nesbitt played with my brothers beer league team a few times a year or two ago lol.
Lt Dan
F*** your ice cream!
They need to name the team the Atlanta or Georgia Peaches and this needs to be their goal song
FWIW, the Gladiators have sucked since becoming the Atlanta Gladiators.
Made the playoffs eight out of 12 years as the Gwinnett Gladiators (including a Kelly Cup Finals appearance in 2006).
Made the playoffs two seasons out of eight (getting swept both times) since becoming the Atlanta Gladiators. This is probably a mean joke to make but *EVERY* night is a retro Thrashers night when you look at in those terms...
sneakytitz
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dj4aces
An Intricate Piece of Infinity
I like the Glads, but I also look at them as a developmental team for a NHL organization, not an independent team in an independent league. When you view it under that lens, the number of reasons why they'd miss the playoffs (or fail to advance if they do make it) grows. Is it bad signings? Is it a shallow prospect pool from an AHL and/or NHL affiliate? Is it the Atlanta curse? Who knows?
sneakytitz
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Tale as old as time, the second an ECHL goalie puts together a solid 10-15 game stretch, they're gone. Happened with Parks and Murdaca a few times and during some pivotal seasons recently. I predict it will happen with Haider next year. Glads will be solid in the first half, lose Haider, and we will be lucky to make it to the playoffs.
nhlfan79
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Full house tonight. 9,400+ (capacity).
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nhlfan79
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I shot this during intermission.
sneakytitz
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Remember when that guy on the FB group gave you shit for wearing a GLADS Thrashers jersey during a non-Thrashers night game? LOL.
IIRC, last night was the first Thrashers night win. Let's hope we even the series today. 2-2.
nhlfan79
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That was another guy on the ice crew, not me! But yes, that was the dumbest self-own ever.
nhlfan79
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sneakytitz
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7300+ today, almost a sell out. Thrashers win. Last back to back Thrashers win since March 5/9th, 2011.
16k overall is a good weekend for the Gladiators
Also interesting to see how well Savannah has done in regards to attendance so far during their existence
Doesn't all this Atlanta Gladiators crap belong in the ECHL thread?
It's only very tangentially related to the potential Atlanta expansion situation.
It's only very tangentially related to the potential Atlanta expansion situation.
nhlfan79
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No, it's pretty clear we're not talking about the ECHL per se here. The relevance is about the dramatically spiked interest in a low-level minor league hockey team when they cosplay as Atlanta's former NHL franchise.
The big turnout this past weekend unequivocally confirms that there is significant and widespread interest in the NHL's impending returning here, despite what some seem to believe on these forums.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If done properly (and I have no reason to think it won't be this time), Atlanta 3.0 is going to blow away all the naysayers' expectations.
nhlfan79
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The one part of all of this that perplexes me is that the Anson-owned Gladiators got the NHL's permission to use and market the Thrashers name and logo, yet it's Krause's competing group that seems to have the inside track to getting the expansion franchise and has made no secret that he wants to resurrect the Thrashers branding.
So, you have two competing potential ownership groups, one of which is currently allowed to use the Thrashers name, and the other who seems primed to commandeer it.
So, you have two competing potential ownership groups, one of which is currently allowed to use the Thrashers name, and the other who seems primed to commandeer it.
Did it really need 15 posts to make that point? Because the last 15 or so posts in this thread and several before that are all about the Gladiators and while some dealt with "the dramatically spiked interest in a low-level minor league hockey team when they cosplay as Atlanta's former NHL franchise" many just seemed to going on about the Gladiators' performance in recent years.
In my mind, one post of a few sentences after the event that described its success would have been more than sufficient for its relevanceto the subject of this thread. After all, it's the success of the event not the event itself that is relevant.
Some of the excessively large graphics (most of yours seemed reasonably sized) also added to the annoyance.
Tawnos
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In response to "did it really need 15 posts to make that point?" I would just ask "did it really need 2 posts from you complaining about it?"
If you have a problem with it, report it to the mods and see if they agree. Otherwise, recognize that this is a conversation that can have tangents related to the main topic and participate in that conversation, or don't.
nhlfan79
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Interesting that the poster said nothing when this very same thread recently got hijacked for literally pages and pages about Hamilton and southern Ontario--which he himself posted about--which is plainly off-topic.
Some have such short memories. SMH...
Based on this article from last year, I'm not sure how interested Oak View, who will be running the Hamilton arena, are in having a NHL team there.
Hamilton arena boss Tim Leiweke eyes many sports for renovated facility
The man leading a $280-million renovation of Hamilton's FirstOntario Centre says it doesn't make sense to pursue an NHL team for the full-sized arena, but sees plenty of interesting sporting opportunities for the facility.
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Interesting that the poster said nothing when this very same thread recently got hijacked for literally pages and pages about Hamilton and southern Ontario--which he himself posted about--which is plainly off-topic.
Some have such short memories. SMH...
Based on this article from last year, I'm not sure how interested Oak View, who will be running the Hamilton arena, are in having a NHL team there.
Hamilton arena boss Tim Leiweke eyes many sports for renovated facility
The man leading a $280-million renovation of Hamilton's FirstOntario Centre says it doesn't make sense to pursue an NHL team for the full-sized arena, but sees plenty of interesting sporting opportunities for the facility.www.sportsnet.ca
Again, I didn't mean to hijack the thread. I was called out and asked why I had a negative view towards "non-traditional markets" and I answered it was because with the limit on the total number of teams a team in one market means another city can't have one. Then the back and forth ensued.
dj4aces
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This river empties into some very murky waters, because what looks fine to one will look huge (or tiny) to someone else. Probably better to attach the tweet than the image directly, but sometimes that's not even possible. Tweets can get deleted, or sometimes not even display properly on posts.
Is it annoying to get an image attached to a post and have it take up the whole monitor? For sure. But imo, it's better to have context -- even if it's eleventy times larger than it needs to be -- than it is to have none. One could argue that we should be able to display an image in a post at 50% and allow us to click to see the original size, but that doesn't seem to be a feature of Xenforo.
Apologies for the extremely off-fopic tangent
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