Around the League Part 8: Welcome to the league Vegas, and Duchene discussion

[the halleJOKEL]

pretty much every team in every league is having attendance "issues" these days

too many other things for people to do. tickets too expensive everywhere.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

They want to grow the game but in most markets how many people can afford tickets for the whole family? Add in transportation to the game, potentially snacks and parking, and it gets really expensive.

 

[Joe McGrath]

pretty much every team in every league is having attendance "issues" these days

too many other things for people to do.

In Detroit?

Anyway, they’re probably going to suck for a few years at least so it’ll be amusing to watch an original 6 team play to 12k on a Tuesday vs the Canes in 2019.

 

[Negan4Coach]

I think you mean "some awesome place like New Orleans," HTH

I meant dumb for hockey. Like, IDK, "Hot" Lanta or Charlotte.

Either way, not a fan of NOLA. The chow is good but I'm over all night benders and the smell of vomit everywhere.

 

[Roboturner913]

There's way more to the town than drinking all night and tourist traps. That's such a mistake people make. There's more art/culture/music/food/etc. in New Orleans than almost any town in the U.S. other than say, Chicago, San Fran and NYC. It's probably also the closest thing in the U.S. to an old world European city.

It's got its problems, to be sure. But there's a liveliness and spirit there you don't find many places. Even places like Memphis and Nashville are becoming gentrified safe, lilly-white, over-corporatized shells of what they used to be. I don't care much about living in a town with a Starbucks on every block.

 

[vorbis]

New Orleans is one of my favorite towns in the US. some of the best "accidental adventures" of my life happened there. I don't think calling it 'magical' is overstating it.

 

[tarheelhockey]

There's way more to the town than drinking all night and tourist traps. That's such a mistake people make.

Granted, you can get away from the tourist traps and still be drinking all night.

 

[NotOpie]

Granted, you can get away from the tourist traps and still be drinking all night.

I find myself being able to do that very thing in my family room....

 

[Roboturner913]

Granted, you can get away from the tourist traps and still be drinking all night.

 

[HisIceness]

As much as we gripe about Karmanos, at least he isn't Melnyk (Senators owner)

 

[Wolfpuck]

As much as we gripe about Karmanos, at least he isn't Melnyk (Senators owner)

Melnyk is an assclown. What nerve for him to make a sideshow of himself while the Senators are taking part in a centennial event. The irony is that he has the audacity to shit on the fans, when one of them saved his life when he needed a liver transplant.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Honestly, I hope the league steps in and somehow forces him to sell. He’s the kind of owner the league doesn’t need.

 

[Stickpucker]

Also, there sure are a lot of empty seats in Detroit for this Bruins/Red Wings game. I guess by BOHs logic, the Red Wings are going to move to Regina any day now. Just need to see if there are any flights between Detroit and Regina.

All it took was 1 season of mediocrity not 10 seasons of suckage.

 

[Stickpucker]

New Orleans is one of my favorite towns in the US. some of the best "accidental adventures" of my life happened there. I don't think calling it 'magical' is overstating it.

Movie: "Vorbis' excellent adventures"

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Either way, not a fan of NOLA. The chow is good but I'm over all night benders and the smell of vomit everywhere.

Then you're doing it wrong.

Here's the New Orleans I know: Mrs. Hank and I in a tiny music club on Rampart a few years back. Like, 9pm on a Tuesday night. Bandstand barely bigger than a closet. Little brass band, 4 guys, playing the hell out of some old dixieland standards. In comes a cop in full uniform, walks up to the bandleader. They bullshit a little bit, and the cop walks onstage, reaches behind the piano, pulls out a case, pulls a trumpet out of the case, plays an hour set with the band, puts the horn back into his case, puts the case back behind the piano, and goes right back out on his beat.

There is no other place like that in the whole world.

 

[bluedevil58]

There's way more to the town than drinking all night and tourist traps. That's such a mistake people make. There's more art/culture/music/food/etc. in New Orleans than almost any town in the U.S. other than say, Chicago, San Fran and NYC. It's probably also the closest thing in the U.S. to an old world European city.

It's got its problems, to be sure. But there's a liveliness and spirit there you don't find many places. Even places like Memphis and Nashville are becoming gentrified safe, lilly-white, over-corporatized shells of what they used to be. I don't care much about living in a town with a Starbucks on every block.

I agree. Aside from NO, Charleston is close to the old world as well IMO.

 

[Roboturner913]

I sat next to Derek Trucks at the Scores in Nola once. He likes redheads, FWIW

 

[Negan4Coach]

Then you're doing it wrong.

Here's the New Orleans I know: Mrs. Hank and I in a tiny music club on Rampart a few years back. Like, 9pm on a Tuesday night. Bandstand barely bigger than a closet. Little brass band, 4 guys, playing the hell out of some old dixieland standards. In comes a cop in full uniform, walks up to the bandleader. They bull**** a little bit, and the cop walks onstage, reaches behind the piano, pulls out a case, pulls a trumpet out of the case, plays an hour set with the band, puts the horn back into his case, puts the case back behind the piano, and goes right back out on his beat.

There is no other place like that in the whole world.

IDK. It sounds exhausting. I just go there for work,

 

[Navin R Slavin]

IDK. It sounds exhausting. I just go there for work,

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just stay off Bourbon.

 

[GoCanes2015]

How many hundreds of fans will show up at Tuesday's 1:30pm game?

 

[geehaad]

How many hundreds of fans will show up at Tuesday's 1:30pm game?

In Toronto, I'd imagine it'll be a standard number of fans for them.

 

[Joe McGrath]

How many hundreds of fans will show up at Tuesday's 1:30pm game?

200 hundreds of people.

 

[garnetpalmetto]

In case anybody hadn't heard, Toronto will be wearing these throwback jerseys based on what the 1918-1919 Toronto Arenas wore

 

[Lempo]

Tarenas is that guy playing for the Isles?

 

[dogbazinho]

Aretnas sounds like a pill with lots of side effects.