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    Image of DirkToberFest DirkToberFest
    11/13/09

    In reply to Optimistic Coyotes Fan Misses Point Entirely
    LSAT Question

    The conclusion of the statement is justified if which of the following is true:

    [I just put a gun in my mouth] #phoenixcoyotes
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    Image of Phintastic Phintastic
    11/13/09

    In reply to Optimistic Coyotes Fan Misses Point Entirely
    The two pick-up and drop-off locations are the Arizona State University Main Campus (Lot 16)

    That's because Leinart's party shuttle has a stop at Lot 17. #phoenixcoyotes
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    Image of Pete Gaines Pete Gaines
    11/13/09

    In reply to Optimistic Coyotes Fan Misses Point Entirely
    BREAKING: Someone is stupid on the internet! #phoenixcoyotes
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    Image of titansfan78 titansfan78
    10/01/09

    In reply to The NHL Gets Its Way, And Paradoxically, So Do The Fans
    As a Nashville Predators fan I can tell you this deal wont end well in the future.
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    Image of HockeyMountain HockeyMountain
    10/01/09

    @titansfan78: Umm the Preds actually have solid stable ownership (and are seeing their fanbase grow). So it actually turned out ok for them.
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    10/01/09

    In reply to The NHL Gets Its Way, And Paradoxically, So Do The Fans
    Hockey in the Sun Belt (outside of Dallas) has been an indisputable failure. The fans don't care, the players don't want to come, and everything from the uniforms to the team names screams "minor league."

    Except for Carolina, San Jose, Dallas, and Phoenix when they didn't have completely inept management. Then again, when Canadian clubs had inept management, like Calagary Edmonton and Ottawa, they struggled too. Or American teams in the north, like Buffalo, Pittsburgh and others.

    But that's just a coincidence. It's certainly "Sun Belt"and not piss-poor management that's the problem here.
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    Image of Drunken Midgets Drunken Midgets
    10/01/09

    @HockeyMountain: When Atlanta was a playoff team they drew quite well, too.
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    10/01/09

    @Drunken Midgets: They've made the playoffs once. And were 21st in the league in attendance.
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    Image of Sir Hotbod Handsomeface Sir Hotbod Handsomeface
    09/30/09

    In reply to The NHL Gets Its Way, And Paradoxically, So Do The Fans
    First Star: Barry Petchesky
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    Image of bubbaprog bubbaprog
    09/30/09

    In reply to The NHL Gets Its Way, And Paradoxically, So Do The Fans
    I guess Tampa Bay isn't in the "Sun Belt"? Because we're in the top 5 total attendance in the league over the past five years.
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    Image of TotallyRuckedUp TotallyRuckedUp
    09/30/09

    @bubbaprog: Better success story: I've been in Raleigh for a year and a half and have been very impressed. The Canes do fine in attendance (very well considering their metro-market size), put out a competitive team (Cup and EC finals in last four years), turn a profit, players love playing there (just resigned Canada's national goalie, 25-year-old '06 Stanley Cup MVP Cam Ward long term, kept all important pieces from last year's run and added a few), and they have created a unique, loud, affordable atmosphere complete with the best tailgating in the sport.

    Not every sun-belt team has been a failure. Arbitrary, yes, but being rated No. 2 on ESPNs list of all sports franchise hardly cries failure for the move from Hartford.

    Miami, Atlanta and Phoenix? Meh. Toronto can have 'em.
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    twoeightnine promoted this comment Edited by TotallyRuckedUp at 09/30/09 11:06 PM TotallyRuckedUp was starred TotallyRuckedUp was unstarred
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    09/30/09

    @bubbaprog: Wha wha what? By the last 5 years you mean the year after you won the Cup (notice I didn't say the year you won it) and the year after that right? Hell I'll even give you the lockout year. I was at opening night last year and there were sections upon sections that were completely empty. Opening night! The advertisements on the boards were for the Lightning and arena events. They couldn't get anyone to give them money.

    [sports.espn.go.com]
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    09/30/09

    @kylejahner: Yeah, fine in attendance... wake me when they crack 90% of tickets sold again.
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    Image of Barry Petchesky Barry Petchesky
    10/01/09

    @kylejahner: I didn't mean to crap on the Canes, but in my mind I don't really consider them (or the Sharks) a Sun Belt team.

    Still not backing down re: the Lightning, though.
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    Image of Sir Hotbod Handsomeface Sir Hotbod Handsomeface
    10/01/09

    @twoeightnine: wooooo Islanders! #1!
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    Image of Kid Canada Kid Canada
    10/01/09

    @kylejahner:

    When the Hurricanes are lousy, nobody goes. That's the difference.

    Also, it's been said, but Cam Ward will be lucky to make Canada's Olympic team. Luongo and Brodeur are virtual locks to be 1-2. Ward will be fighting with the likes of Steve Mason and Marc-Andre Fleury for the right to watch from the stands.
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    Image of TotallyRuckedUp TotallyRuckedUp
    10/02/09

    @Kid Canada: Team's been in this non-hockey region for what, a decade? That's a pretty short time to build a sport AND a franchise up.

    In 2007-08, a second-straight non-playoff year, they were still in the middle third of attendance (over 16,600) and outdrew Boston, Los Angeles, the Isle, and Washington (all MUCH bigger markets than the one-million metro area of the Triangle). Sounds like there are a lot of teams that don't draw too well when they aren't winning; including some teams you would never consider relocation candidates or market failures. StL (where I once lived) and Chi also have a Post Lockout 13,000 season.

    Carolina, in the PL era, has never drawn less than 15,500 per. No one is saying its the best market on the planet, but you can't say its not viable and you can't say its a failure.

    Hundreds of fans great players at the airport at 1 am or whatever at every return flight during the playoffs... I don't think that tradition exists anywhere else. So don't cast this team off with the rest of the nameless expansion/relocated masses just yet.
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    Image of TotallyRuckedUp TotallyRuckedUp
    10/02/09

    @Kid Canada: And you know more about the Canada national team than I do, but I do know that statistically, Ward and Brodeur all had identical .916 save percentages and near identical GPG.

    I'm sure Marty will be on Canada's roster as long as he wants to, but I don't know of a lot of goalies more highly regarded than Cam, especially in big games. Plus at 25, Ward is much younger than either. Locking him up long term is huge for the 'Canes, and really that was my only point.

    And I echo Ausoleil on the playoff record. Cam has lost one playoff series out of 7 career, and a brick wall wouldn't have stopped the onslaught of Pittsburgh (combined with the Canes' inept offense.) MAF? Great young talent but not as established as Cam Ward. Also almost lost the series against the Caps with some bad goals. Did not carry his team like Cam did in 06 or 09.
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    Image of ScientificMapp ScientificMapp
    09/30/09

    In reply to The NHL Gets Its Way, And Paradoxically, So Do The Fans
    I guess it just wasn't Balsillie's Day.
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    Image of Kid Canada Kid Canada
    09/30/09

    In reply to The NHL Gets Its Way, And Paradoxically, So Do The Fans
    The NHL will have an expansion team in SW Ontario within 5 years, and will be able to auction it off to the highest bidder, raking in more coin than they would receive through the process of moving the Coyotes there.
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    Image of Pedro Cuatrocinco Pedro Cuatrocinco
    09/30/09

    @Kid Canada: Completely ignorant on the subject -- is the market there that obviously underserved?
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    09/30/09

    @Kid Canada: Unless the Fishsticks end up moving there ...
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    Image of TheTick TheTick
    09/30/09

    @DennyCrane: Word is the Isles finally have their new arena deal, and are locked in until 2030 on the Island...
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    Image of Sir Hotbod Handsomeface Sir Hotbod Handsomeface
    09/30/09

    @DennyCrane: watch your mouth
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    Image of Sir Hotbod Handsomeface Sir Hotbod Handsomeface
    09/30/09

    @TheTick: Only half-true. Approval is required from the town of hempstead, whose hand-sitting ways have been the lone reason that the Lighthouse proposal has not been approved to begin with.
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    Image of Kid Canada Kid Canada
    10/01/09

    @Pedro Cuatro Cinco: "Under"-served? Not necessarily. But the "Greater Toronto Area" has a population of about 5.5 million people and could EASILY support two teams. You have to appreciate that the same kind of reverence that Americans have for the NFL is what Canadians have for pro hockey. TSN aired a mock fantasy draft among their experts last night in PRIME TIME TELEVISION. The Leafs sell out every game and rake in cash hand over fist in part because they are the only game in town. Buffalo requires a border crossing which is harder to do nowadays (need a passport to cross into the US, whereas a driver's license used to be sufficient).
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    Image of Pedro Cuatrocinco Pedro Cuatrocinco
    09/30/09

    In reply to The NHL Gets Its Way, And Paradoxically, So Do The Fans
    That headline is an all-timer. Well played, Mr. Petchesky.
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    Image of svenhoek svenhoek
    09/12/09

    In reply to An All-Too-Brief Moment Of Steeler Schadenfreude
    I still think this cunt and her lawyer are only ratcheting everything up during the season so Ben will fold and pay the settlement.

    As for the Pittsburgh girls line, so says the man whose never been there. And their even hotter then normal girls since their Steeler's fans. -1 to anyone posting that old ass picture of Bens biggest fan, that bitch was from the South and you all know it. Pitt has too many hills for girls to get that large.
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    Image of Lanceifer Lanceifer
    09/11/09

    In reply to An All-Too-Brief Moment Of Steeler Schadenfreude

    That Pittsburgh girl line... That is SO funny. What a witty, imaginative writer you are! So clever and original! How do you do it? Where do you come up with such fresh material? Because like you're saying Pittsburgh girls are so ugly Ben couldn't find a single one to fuck in the whole city. Now that's cutting edge. You're taking sports writing into an exciting new direction. You're a visionary. And so hysterical. Oh my God, I do believe I've wet myself.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    09/11/09

    @Lanceifer: Back to Sewickley with you, Jessilynn.
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    Image of formerly Chief Wahoo formerly Chief Wahoo
    09/11/09

    In reply to An All-Too-Brief Moment Of Steeler Schadenfreude
    "Cultural thing" my ass, cut that hair, hippy!
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    Image of CaliCheeseSucks CaliCheeseSucks
    08/26/09

    In reply to Today In Antitrust Violations
    What a goddamn joke

    The antitrust violation or the NHL having a team in Phoenix?
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    Image of cromartie cromartie
    08/26/09

    @CaliCheeseSucks: Take your pick. The Hammer would sell out for an NHL team in about 3 minutes, without impacting the Leafs at all. Why Bettman is intent on maintaining the Southern Strategery at all costs is beyond me.
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    Image of GreatOdensRaven GreatOdensRaven
    08/26/09

    @cromartie: I'm not even convinced that Bettman's doing it to preserve the Southern strategery. I think it has more to do with Balsillie initially trying to make the move without asking Bettman's permission first. Which, I guess, favors the antitrust violation.
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    Image of ClueHeywood ClueHeywood
    08/26/09

    In reply to Today In Antitrust Violations
    Considering Glendale's wealthiest resident is a tweaker named Wayne, I'm not sure how many local bids the NHL will get.
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