I spent the week in Vancouver for a work trip and while the weather was okay (too cold for me having lived in Florida for a decade and was grey and rainy one of the days) I can tell the city doesn’t care about any team but the Nucks. I tried to find Panthers and Oilers gear I as support both but only found Nucks gear. My sports obsessed co-workers didn’t seem to care about the SCFs either.
Concur. I do understand people who say the grey skies and rain from Nov to March is dreary and depressing. Especially if you come from somewhere sunny.To me, it's a pretty ideal climate. Never really goes much outside that prime operating range for me 5-20 degrees. Doesn't get nearly as hot or as cold as the prairies even, usually. Though everything's changing.
I don't mind the grey and rainy either. I kinda dig it tbh. It's less bright than getting blinded by pure sunlight reflecting off snow even though it's -30. lol. Or broad daylight 'till 11pm and right up again at 5am. But a lot of people can't handle it. Find it dreary and depressing. Everyone's got different preferences. I'd just die in Florida i assume.
But with Vancouver...the few months of "summer" that the rain stops definitely send people outdoors to do literally a million other things. It's just a quirk of the market. Doesn't even matter the sport. If the team isn't doing really well, and the weather is nice...people got other stuff to do.
Agree. Season should be over before the end of May. Not sure why they're starting the season so late now, playing into mid-June is ridiculousSeason needs to end sooner.
Why are the Oilers unlikable? I honestly believe if another team had McDavid and Draisaitl I would love to watch them. Back in the day I loved to watch great players doing great things. Heck, I even liked rival teams if I watched great players, like the Sedins or Iginla.A super unlikable team from alberta vs the Florida panthers wow I'm so shocked
The primary reason I’ve seen of the nhl beginning their regular season in October is to avoid as many weekends with the nfl for their USA based teams. Plus mlb PO are in full swing in September, plus NCAA football is also beginning in Sept. but realistically the nhl doesn’t get a big Puck Drop intro to the season.Agree. Season should be over before the end of May. Not sure why they're starting the season so late now, playing into mid-June is ridiculous
Why are the Oilers unlikable?
It's better to be seen at night than to wear a toilet bowl on the chestBlue and bright orange. Probably a good for jersey for walking at night though. No one would run you over in that.... Or maybe they would? Either way they'd see you.
Ya definitely backfired on the Vancouver OP,Dumb poll just meant to spark outrage. Who the f*** cares that your typical Canadian that never watches hockey isn't watching the Stanley Cup Finals? This is meant to make people believe that Canadian hockey watchers are tuning out these finals specificaly... A poll saying that Canadian hockey fans are watching this final less (or more) than others is really what's needed, but that's not what this is at all. Just some clickbait bullshit preying on people's ignorance about stats to create fake outrage.
where did you make up those numbers from+350M market versus 38M. Where do you think money is?
All of NA are immigrants,With risk of sounding racist... I aint.. That's because half of that number aren't true Canadians *cough* immigrants.
Also Barkov > McDavid. Daggers (or double edged) blades are more valuable. Barkov owns the ice. Several other skaters deserve actual credit too.. esp the defense.
In my personal opinion Bobrovsky is getting too much credit. Judge a tender by the quality of their saves, and almost never letting soft goals. Panthers defense is boosting him up. Also that's not to say Bobby isn't in the 'elite' goaltenders club.
But would you take Bob over Shisterkin? I would not.
Apologies for going off topic. The game thread is closed for some reason
yeah but watching hockey is now free for anybody with an internet connectionThe costs to put a kid through hockey in Canada have tripled in the past 20 years.
I'll let you figure it out!where did you make up those numbers from
All of NA are immigrants,
It's better to be seen at night than to wear a toilet bowl on the chest
I mean isnt this what everyone does? I never watch the finals if my team isn’t involved.Cant speak for all of Canada but here in Van, almost everyone i know through the hockey community ( beer league, coaching, friends etc) are not watching the games at all. They might tune in to Sportcentre at the end of the night to see the score and highlights but thats about it. Summer weather is here with plenty of things to do and its hard to convince people to watch a game that their team is not playing in.
How fitting that a Canuck fan started this thread.So much for Edmonton being " Canada's team", I guess the Boston Pizza commercials didnt work
Survey: 58% of Canadians not following Stanley Cup final between Oilers and Panthers | TSN
Albertans may be watching every second of the Stanley Cup final but most Canadians are not, according to a recent survey. The poll released by market research company Leger on Tuesday found that 58 per cent of Canadians are not paying close attention to the NHL final between the Edmonton Oilers...www.tsn.ca
The problem is while it's June and nice out I don't buy these excuses. Somehow the NBA runs at the same time and people tune into the NBA finals.Why do I have to watch the Cup final if I am hockey fan? In my post I mentioned that I watched a few minutes of other teams games, not just my team (Leafs). It's summer here.....it's been hot and sunny and there are things that can be done other than watching hockey. A week off between rounds doesn't help.
Not all Canadians eat, sleep, breathe hockey - that's a media stereotype/hype. Not every Canadian is going to automatically cheer for a Canadian team just because they are in the finals.
No matter how much sports media in Canada wants you to think, even with a Canadian team in the finals....the Stanley Cup finals isn't as big a deal as they want you to think it is. Now.....put 2 Canadian teams in the finals....that might be a different story.