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That the Canucks are tied for first in the league at 49 points. So, anyone else follow the NHL? It's my second religion.
Perfect Stu
12-29-2002, 08:35 PM
SECOND religion?
ha! it's my first and foremost religion :D
I like the Canucks and every other Canadian team other than Ottawa, but my team is, always was, and always will be the TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS
http://www.team-blankets.com/nhl/images/torontomapleleafs.jpg
GO LEAFS GO
Stonecutter
12-29-2002, 10:30 PM
Originally posted by Perfect Stu
SECOND religion?
ha! it's my first and foremost religion :D
I like the Canucks and every other Canadian team other than Ottawa, but my team is, always was, and always will be the TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS
http://www.team-blankets.com/nhl/images/torontomapleleafs.jpg
GO LEAFS GO
What is it with you and teams that wear blue and white? you wouldn't happen to be a cubs fan would you?
Personally I love my hawks, but unfortunatly the hawk home games aren't televised so I dont see them very often.
they arent televised?? hmm. why not?
i can watch all 82 games on TV for Wings. hawks have a nice fanbase. i dont know why they wouldnt televise the games.
Oh, and BTW about this topic....
Canucks arent tied for first anymore. :D they're tied for 2nd. ;)
The Germanator
12-29-2002, 11:28 PM
I think the Flyers are still tied for first or something...but they are mediocre at best...they suck.
flyers tied for first in thier devision at 43
vancouver and ottawa tied for 2nd in the league at 49
detroit first in league at 50
Crono
12-30-2002, 09:49 AM
Yeah!! Go Buffalo!! Haven't even won 10 games yet!! :rolleyes:
I like all the Canadian teams, but Toronto would have to be my favourite...
Joeiss
12-30-2002, 11:31 AM
Mogilny, Sundin and Belfour are my heroes.
http://www.team-blankets.com/nhl/images/torontomapleleafs.jpg
Leafs rock, and Vancouver rocks too. Cloutier is sweet (I have him in my pool).
I'd just like to point out that Vancouver has 1 more win over Detroit...so once we win our game tomorrow we'll be a point and 2 wins ahead:) Ottawa is doing good as usuall but their fan base sucks. To many Leaf fans out there.
Originally posted by bouncer_agb
I'd just like to point out that Vancouver has 1 more win over Detroit...so once we win our game tomorrow we'll be a point and 2 wins ahead:) Ottawa is doing good as usuall but their fan base sucks. To many Leaf fans out there.
just like to point out vancouver has 2 more losses then detroit. ;)
and if you win the next game, may be a point ahead. however you'd of played 1 extra game.
have to count them when they played the same amount of games.
right now same about of games, they in 2nd. :p
hopfully soon we get 2 of our better players back that have been out pretty much the whole year.
Vancouver is doing good tho picking up where they left off the 2nd half of last season. then again with colorado doing craptacular *snicker snicker snicker* they not really having a team to compete with.
however i expect colorado to take first in that division when its all over. ( dont want em to. but i think they will)
Nevermind....just posted useless crap that made sense at the time but now it doesn't.
nWoCHRISnWo
12-30-2002, 06:03 PM
Almost all the Canadian teams are in play-off spots right now and Vancouver & Ottawa are close to the top of the league, plus Lemieux is dominating the league in offense. I love hockey.
Stonecutter
12-30-2002, 11:52 PM
I'm sure if you had a dish with the hockey package you could see every hawk game, but the home games aren't televised in chicago. The hawks owner Bill Wurtz believes that if the games are televised people won't go to the stadium. The fact of the matter is he could probably make more money on a tv contract than he could on home games alone. At one point in time he may have been right but he is so hated by hawk fans that he refuses to televise the games out of pure stubborness.
yanno. the detroit Lions do the same thing... unless a home game is sold out. they dont televise it. problem is the team sux and no one wants to see them :D
However our wings. every game always is on TV. they block out ESPN when its on there. and put it on a local channel. And every game is sold out. over and over.
so i have to think the theory of people not going to a game if its on TV is wrong.
*shrugs* ah well.
Stonecutter
12-31-2002, 02:19 AM
Yeah, but with the lions not being on tv, that's an nfl rule, not a detroit rule. The only people who enforce the blackhawks black out are the hawks themeselves.
Every once in awhile when the bears are really really bad (kind of like this season, although it wasn't an issue this year) the bears will threaten the fans with "buy tickets or the game will be blacked out by nfl rules."
Guess what. It never happens. Here's why.
The local fox station (the bears being an nfc team means that 6 out of their 8 home games are on fox.) Makes huge money on the commercials that they sell during bears games because Chicago is a HUGE market and the bears get great ratings. If the game isn't on they lose that revenue so if there's 1000 seats left that haven't been sold, they'll eat the 40,000-45,000$ that it costs to buy up those seats themselves. They still end up making money on the deal.
Joeiss
12-31-2002, 11:42 AM
Originally posted by Null
And every game is sold out. over and over.
so i have to think the theory of people not going to a game if its on TV is wrong.
*shrugs* ah well.
Ya, Detroit and Montreal have the best average ticket sales. They are in the 20,000's. Toronto is in third with 29,210 average ticket sales this year.
Originally posted by Joeiss
Ya, Detroit and Montreal have the best average ticket sales. They are in the 20,000's. Toronto is in third with 29,210 average ticket sales this year.
either im reading that wrong....
or theres a typo....
but wouldnt THOES numbers make toronto higher? :p
Perfect Stu
12-31-2002, 03:33 PM
yeah, he meant 19 210
but if the Air Canada Center held 30 000 people, the Leafs would most likely still sell out most games. Toronto is hockey.
Joeiss
12-31-2002, 03:34 PM
Originally posted by Null
either im reading that wrong....
or theres a typo....
but wouldnt THOES numbers make toronto higher? :p
My bad! replace the 29 with a 19... lol
Originally posted by Perfect Stu
Toronto is hockey.
no more so then Montreal or Detroit. :p
id have to say thoes are the 3 biggest places for hockey fans.
very nice considering they make up half the original 6.
3 of my fav teams.
nWoCHRISnWo
12-31-2002, 06:06 PM
Ottawa would probably be better for the fans if the arena wasn't in the ****tiest possible place. Then there's teams like New Jersey, who couldn't sell out an arena if the arena was the size of a car.
At least Edmonton has the best ice. :cool:
Perfect Stu
12-31-2002, 09:25 PM
Originally posted by Null
no more so then Montreal or Detroit. :p
I disagree
Toronto is much more of a hockey city than Montreal...and to be honest, no American city can touch Canada's passion for the game
montreal as of late as gotten a little less into it.
canada as a country. no one can touch.
as for toronto. i disagree that they are the #1 hockey city.
Originally posted by bouncer_agb
I'd just like to point out that Vancouver has 1 more win over Detroit
so once we win our game tomorrow we'll be a point and 2 wins ahead
i aint gunna say a word. ;)
Stonecutter
01-01-2003, 01:19 AM
Before the United Center, when it was still the Chcago Stadium, absoluty nothing touched chicago as far as hockey fans were concerned. The Blackhawks pretty much entered every single game in that staidum leading 1-0 simply because of the fans.
The loss of the stadium, combined with the fact that the hawks aren't on tv, and the fact that the team sucked from 97-2000 pretty much means no one cares anymore, and there's usually only 14-16 thousand people at hawk games every night.
yea. quite often i wish instead of destroying a stadium just to build a new one........ that they could spend the money on a total resoration of the old stadium. to make it look like its brand new.
new stadiums are cool and all. but they never have the feel of the old ones
:D Damnit. The Canucks soooo had that game. Oh well, our goals were much more beautiful. And damn detroit. I was watching the game recap and was hoping for St Louis.
as for the hockey town debate, no one can beat Toronto + Montreal. I have to say, Toronto though is a bit more hockey crazy. But, 50 years ago I'd have to say Montreal. Like I said before, as long as Canadian teams perform well i'm all good. The Oilers and Flames need it more than anybody. And the fed government just cancelled the extra funding.:( Which, is a iffy subject. I think there's always better things to spend money on than sports.
nWoCHRISnWo
01-01-2003, 03:34 AM
God dammit, I don't know why we even bother playing the Stars anymore, we NEVER, EVER win. We'd be much better of just forfeiting before the game starts and resting our players.
And as for fans of hockey, as noted you gotta give credit to Toronto and Montreal, Detroit's there too. Of course, Canada as a whole is easily the greatest though. :) During the gold medal game against USA IN USA you'd think it was in Canada, the crowd was singing 'Oh Canada' near the end.
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