Series Talk: SCF: Carolina Hurricanes [M1] vs Vegas Golden Knights [P1], Canes Lead 3-2

[Lshap]

By state does seem like poor methodology for the question, but saying it is just farmland and mountain ranges is a touch divorced from reality.
It only takes two of those states to exceed the entire population of Canada...

Apart from California, there are probably more hockey fans in one mid range Canadian city than in those other 10 states combined.

Even the hugely populated California can't compare per capita hockey interest with northeastern states, let alone Canadian provinces.

This isn't to diminish those states or the many hockey fans out west. Just pointing the glaring problem with a poll that prioritizes raw acreage over actual people.

 

[Austrianwing]

Apart from California, there are probably more hockey fans in one mid range Canadian city than in those other 10 states combined.

Even the hugely populated California can't compare per capita hockey interest with northeastern states, let alone Canadian provinces.

This isn't to diminish those states or the many hockey fans out west. Just pointing the glaring problem with a poll that prioritizes raw acreage over actual people.

Don't disagree, and it's a stupid poll.
I was just poking a little fun at the 'farmlands and mountains' characterization.

 

[Tryamw]

Maybe the myth of the canes only having a few, casual fans can finally be laid to rest.

They've got some crazy diehard fans.

Smoke and mirrors.

 

[Summer Rose]

Apart from California, there are probably more hockey fans in one mid range Canadian city than in those other 10 states combined.

Even the hugely populated California can't compare per capita hockey interest with northeastern states, let alone Canadian provinces.

This isn't to diminish those states or the many hockey fans out west. Just pointing the glaring problem with a poll that prioritizes raw acreage over actual people.

Very true. California has the most registered players with USA Hockey, but they're far and away the most populous state. Per capita I'm not sure what it is, but I wouldn't imagine that it's California.

 

[Joe McGrath]

People who "hate" Vegas don't even know why they hate them, it's just a sheep mentality. 3 cup appearances in 9 years and people "hate" them. They should hate their own team for not being able to do what Vegas has done. It's probably more about being jealous than hating them.

Pot meet kettle.

 

[NYRnine94]

Pot meet kettle.

What team am i jealous of?

 

[CupsOverCash]

I originally picked canes in 6. Torts says they're going back to Raleigh. What is he going to watch the parade?

 

[NYRnine94]

I originally picked canes in 6. Torts says they're going back to Raleigh. What is he going to watch the parade?

Should he say yeah the series is over? Maybe you just give up when you face adversity but that doesn't mean everyone is the same way

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

I originally picked canes in 6. Torts says they're going back to Raleigh. What is he going to watch the parade?

If he doesn't get fired and replaced before game 6 to motivate the team..

 

[CupsOverCash]

Should he say yeah the series is over? Maybe you just give up when you face adversity but that doesn't mean everyone is the same way

I don't think there's much they can do. With the prediction and everything.

 

[CupsOverCash]

If he doesn't get fired and replaced before game 6 to motivate the team..

Coach bombay is going to replace torts in the 3rd period and they turn into the Vegas mighty ducks with new jerseys and charlie Conway scores the game winner on a penalty shot.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

It's been that way for years. In the 02 finals the announcers talked about it.

In fact, they implied that it was because all of the Canes fans were just drunk.

I mean, they weren't wrong, but kind of unfair to single us out for having a drunken fan base, considering the Habs were literally playing in Canadian Beer Arena at the time.

 

[ORRFForever]

Why is there NO game tonight?

 

[Nikishin al Gaib]

I would be absolutely flabbergasted to find out that even one person went out of their way to attend a watch party in Raleigh, solely because they want to see Vegas lose.

Maybe hate-watching Vegas is a thing in Toronto, but that is absolutely not the case in Raleigh.There’s zero connection or history there, literally zero basis for hate.

Yeah this city isn't hate watching Vegas, they're cheering for their local team that started a contention run nearly a decade ago with a fanbase fully believing this is their time and the entire city wants to be a part of it. And at a certain point, after the Stadium Series sold out within minutes and what we are seeing with the arena immediately selling out for both home and away games for the Finals with the team basically unable to open enough outdoor viewing parties to satisfy demand, and something like a 160 or so game sellout streak within the regular season (that could be over 200 games now, I'm really not sure) the league and people around the league really shouldn't be surprised that we are a strong fanbase now.

Our problem in the past was that we had an owner who didn't care to invest enough to matter. Only spent to the floor most years because the league made him and then publicly blamed the fans on why he wouldn't spend more during a 10 year run of utter mediocre play. And even our best years under Karmanos were immediately followed by our worst. That would piss off any market.

What you're seeing now is that the fans in Raleigh are just as strong and passionate as fans anywhere else.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Highlight which part of the post you disagree with and why instead of trying to strawman the discussion - which I understand is easier for you than making a point.

Loud does not mean bigger/better fans. Never had, never will. For the Leafs, the louder fans are usually outside the arena at the watch parties than inside the stadium due to being younger and tickets being much more expensive.
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I'll tell you why you're wrong:

The Triangle is full of die hard college sports fans. The kind who camp out for days to get Duke and UNC basketball tickets. Ever heard of the Cameron Crazies? And here's the thing: we raise crazy fans from the cradle, and they stay crazy for life.

The Hurricanes are the one team in this region that every crazy fan can get behind. And we do. That's why we get to the arena six hours before game time, by the thousands, in hundred degree heat, in June. And then fire up grills. That's why the Canes watch party for game 6 is filling up not one, but two, arenas, to watch a game that's happening two thousand miles away.

I was in the house for Game 7 in 2006. That was the loudest place I've ever been in my life. Everyone stood, all game, and screamed, all game. 19,000 people shouting with one voice, absolutely determined to will those twenty guys to a Stanley Cup. I will never forget it for as long as I live.

The players know it. The coaches know it. Ray Ferraro knows it.

If you don't know it, that's on you, bud.

But hey, I'm sure you're a "better" hockey fan because reasons. Okay.

 

[Nikishin al Gaib]

That doesn't explain Lenovo being the loudest building in the league in the first three rounds.

That's because our roof line is one of the lowest in the league, effectively trapping noise down in the lower bowl, whereas the vaulted higher ceilings in newer arenas allow for more noise to escape.

 

[NYRnine94]

I'll tell you why you're wrong:

The Triangle is full of die hard college sports fans. The kind who camp out for days to get Duke and UNC basketball tickets. Ever heard of the Cameron Crazies? And here's the thing: we raise crazy fans from the cradle, and they stay crazy for life.

The Hurricanes are the one team in this region that every crazy fan can get behind. And we do. That's why we get to the arena six hours before game time, by the thousands, in hundred degree heat, in June. And then fire up grills. That's why the Canes watch party for game 6 is filling up not one, but two, arenas, to watch a game that's happening two thousand miles away.

I was in the house for Game 7 in 2006. That was the loudest place I've ever been in my life. Everyone stood, all game, and screamed, all game. 19,000 people shouting with one voice, absolutely determined to will those twenty guys to a Stanley Cup. I will never forget it for as long as I live.

The players know it. The coaches know it. Ray Ferraro knows it.

If you don't know it, that's on you, bud.

But hey, I'm sure you're a "better" hockey fan because reasons. Okay.

Every building is loud in game 7.

 

[Lshap]

I'll tell you why you're wrong:

The Triangle is full of die hard college sports fans. The kind who camp out for days to get Duke and UNC basketball tickets. Ever heard of the Cameron Crazies? And here's the thing: we raise crazy fans from the cradle, and they stay crazy for life.

The Hurricanes are the one team in this region that every crazy fan can get behind. And we do. That's why we get to the arena six hours before game time, by the thousands, in hundred degree heat, in June. And then fire up grills. That's why the Canes watch party for game 6 is filling up not one, but two, arenas, to watch a game that's happening two thousand miles away.

I was in the house for Game 7 in 2006. That was the loudest place I've ever been in my life. Everyone stood, all game, and screamed, all game. 19,000 people shouting with one voice, absolutely determined to will those twenty guys to a Stanley Cup. I will never forget it for as long as I live.

The players know it. The coaches know it. Ray Ferraro knows it.

If you don't know it, that's on you, bud.

But hey, I'm sure you're a "better" hockey fan because reasons. Okay.

I find all this empirical evidence unconvincing. I'll go with the story that watch parties in Raleigh are filled with fans who hate Vegas.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Every building is loud in game 7.

Our building is loud on Tuesday in February. Ask all of your friends who moved south, come to the games, and wear their Rangers jerseys twice a year.

 

[NYRnine94]

Our building is loud on Tuesday in February. Ask all of your friends who moved south, come to the games, and wear their Rangers jerseys twice a year.

Every building is loud. All of a sudden Carolina is the only loud building?

 

[Tryamw]

Why is there NO game tonight?

NBA tonight

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Every building is loud. All of a sudden Carolina is the only loud building?

All of a sudden?

Ever been to a game in Raleigh in the Brind'Amour era?

I'm not saying there aren't other loud arenas.

I am saying that there are none louder.

We've put up with the "not real fans" bullshit for a very long time. Enough with that. I'm sure your fans are also amazing.

 

[NYRnine94]

All of a sudden?

Ever been to a game in Raleigh in the Brind'Amour era?

I'm not saying there aren't other loud arenas.

I am saying that there are none louder.

Ok lol whatever helps you sleep at night

 

[Nikishin al Gaib]

All of a sudden?

Ever been to a game in Raleigh in the Brind'Amour era?

I'm not saying there aren't other loud arenas.

I am saying that there are none louder.

And again, the reason for this is building design and acoustics. Noise is naturally amplified in that arena unlike anywhere else in the league, and add 19k fans whom at least half have been tailgating before hand, it makes that building uniquely deafening.

Seriously, for anyone who comes to a game, highly recommend some kind of earplugs, I use Loop myself. I have permanent ringing in one year because of that arena.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Ok lol whatever helps you sleep at night

What helps me sleep at night is watching K'Andre go hard while Adam Fox is at home in his Rangers PJs watching the Food Network.

(Actually, it's all the money I sleep on like Scrooge McDuck, if you must know. I spray the hundreds in Chanel for the wife, keeps them soft and smelling sweet. All that cash can get filthy if you're not careful.)