Around the NHL - Playoffs? We're Talkin' 'bout Playoffs?

[haseoke39]

STARPUCKS

 

[joshjull]

STARPUCKS

We have a winner!

 

[Baccus]

Columbus ain’t moving

And Carolina just sold 51% yesterday and standard part of the sale agreement is a 7 year no relocation clause, so no, Carolina won’t be moving


My guess is Florida

Florida just signed a new lease a couple years ago that has another 7-8 years to run and a billionaire owner so they seem off the table at the moment as well.

Arizona is the obvious one based on losing money even though they have a renewing yearly lease, Calgary is the dark horse with the current arena head butting going on up there though seems far fetched.

It was interesting that Bettman mentioned that Seattle could also get a relocation team when the arena is ready, so who knows what happens in a couple years. Houston has people excited now that they have a new arena owner who's interested, but nobody knows if interested means shelling out 600 million or whatever.

 

[Icicle]

Adding an expansion to Seattle evens everything out league wise. Bettman is just trying to control the press. They'd expand unless there's a problem somewhere, and Houston is more likely to get a relocated Arizona before Quebec.

 

[Howie Hodge]

Columbus ain’t moving

And Carolina just sold 51% yesterday and standard part of the sale agreement is a 7 year no relocation clause, so no, Carolina won’t be moving


My guess is Florida

Nope, and The North Stars weren't moving from Minnesota because Norm Green said so.

You just never know. I mean they're not going to say at this point anyhow.

Sad to see so many empty seats in Florida and Carolina.

 

[Sabretooth]

Yeah, so now my official stance has changed to the Seattle Spice Girls.

Nice ring to it.

Just call them Pumpkin Spice for the double entendre!

Goddammit lol:

Seattle Pumpkin Spice, marketing to 20-something women nationally.

STARPUCKS

love it! haha

Columbus ain’t moving

And Carolina just sold 51% yesterday and standard part of the sale agreement is a 7 year no relocation clause, so no, Carolina won’t be moving


My guess is Florida

Another longshot relo to QC might be the islanders. Not working out in Barclay's I guess. I think they're maybe working on a potential new arena near Belmont though? But I think Bettman is totally against losing a US team to QC so I have my doubts QC ever gets a team. Maybe Calgary if they don't get their new arena deal sorted out but I'm guessing they will. Maybe expansion to team #33 some day...

And yeah Arizona to Houston makes way too much sense. I expect it to wait to happen until after the owners have that expansion money from seattle well in hand though.

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

Stupid

In 3 years I probably won't be watching this sport.

It's always nice looking forward to something.

 

[Chainshot]

Vancouver and LA swap: Jordan Subban to the Kings, Nic Dowd to the Canucks.

 

[26CornerBlitz]

 

[oldgoalie]

8.2% with this shit product? unbelievable.

 

[Chainshot]

8.2% with this **** product? unbelievable.

That was my thought. Or is it a surge in CDN that is pushing "league wide" revenue? I'm sure having competent teams in all of the Canadian markets has to be helping things.

 

[Jim Bob]

That was my thought. Or is it a surge in CDN that is pushing "league wide" revenue? I'm sure having competent teams in all of the Canadian markets has to be helping things.

Having a 31st team that is doing well on the ice probably helps, as well.

 

[sparkychewbarky]

There's no way the stuff board of directors lets them go with Kraken.

That's too bad...

 

[joshjull]

 

[valet]

lol, that's so NHL

 

[enthusiast]

nothing will top the thunderbirds imo

 

[joshjull]

 

[Chainshot]

That's too bad...

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Then they need some players named Phil.

 

[brian_griffin]

"Starpucks" is awesome, but if that won't go, maybe Seattle Spliff?

It would be even more NHL'ian if they didn't round up or round down, just truncated.

 

[Club]

Seattle Communist

I laughed.. cause it made no sense to me whatsoever

 

[Beerz]

I laughed.. cause it made no sense to me whatsoever

I thought Seattle was the place where they have the Joseph Stalin statue .. I dunno..maybe it's Portland... somewhere in the Northwest they have it

 

[cybresabre]

I thought Seattle was the place where they have the Joseph Stalin statue .. I dunno..maybe it's Portland... somewhere in the Northwest they have it

There was one in Georgia.

 

[HaNotsri]

I thought Seattle was the place where they have the Joseph Stalin statue .. I dunno..maybe it's Portland... somewhere in the Northwest they have it

As a swede I’ve always thought that the one thing that scares americans the most is communism. If that would be true Communists would be a pretty great name. Imagine: milk bars in the arena with smelly food, a Stalin mascot, ticket prices based on your salary and then the league should have a salary cap to create ”parity” (puts more money into the pockets of the oligarchs).

 

[Moskau]

There was one in Georgia.

Which is in the Northwest if you're looking at the map from across the table.

 

[dotcommunism]

Guys, try to stay on topic