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New poll series coming from me in June
Seattle Sea Lions makes sense to me. The other Seattle major sports teams have nicknames related to the sea (Seahawks, Mariners) so why not for the hockey team?
would you consider chess a sport? I'm curious what you would think.
You keep using ''Sport'' as the key word. It isn't. Chess isn't sport nor are E-sports. But they are competitions. And sport =/= competition. Sport involves competition but competition doesn't necessarily involves sport.
would you consider chess a sport? I'm curious what you would think.
Read an article about this recently; sort of "Arena Reviews" by players, favorite dressing room setups on the road.... Pittsburgh & Edmonton ranked highly (particularly Edmonton) as did GRA in Glendale Arizona. Some of the visitors dressing rooms are actually quite spacious, lots of room, space. Apparently playing soccer has become a "thing" with players, pre-game, so concourse space adjacent to the dressing rooms also factors in as to how they rate the quality of the facilities.
I bet this was before the Wings opened their new arena. I've heard fairly good reviews about the place.
They had a little bit of a point in T-Mobile's situation. Foley (supposedly) intentionally wanted the Knights' locker room small and fairly spartan to encourage a team atmosphere where everyone's on top of each other. I don't know if it's true, but I'm fairly sure the visiting locker room in Las Vegas is larger than the home locker room because he wanted it to be harder for opposing teams to talk to each other pregame and at the intermissions. With the results thus far, I don't know that anyone can complain.I would think so (space limited so smaller), ya. No big deal. Their only there for a day & if a tad smaller than Edmonton or wherever, still pretty damn close to 5 Star.... I remember seeing another article written before Vegas had truly completed their arena, it was finished but bare, carpet installed, painted etc.... anyway, the author clearly anti-LV NHL team, pictures of the home dressing room with folding chairs setup temporarily, everything pretty bland as hey, work in progress but this guy didnt care... nasty comments about how it reminded him of his locker room at Middle School a lot only the one at his Middle School was a lot nicer, actually had built in seating, school teams logo painted on the cinder block walls... a water fountain and Coke machine & so on & so on before then laying into T-Mobile Arenas' Medical Room & other facilities with accompanying photos... all unfinished.... incomplete but dont let that stop you. Real nasty stuff..... Everyones a critic. I'm sure OVG will do a bang up job.
- They have not yet settled on a team name and it’s highly unlikely to be the Metropolitans based on some reactions I got from people involved.
- They have tentatively settled on colors already, and it’s not blue and green (though it may be one of those combined with other colors). It’s also not red, like the renderings, but could have some red. They wouldn’t leak the actual color decision, yet, just got these details.
- The club sections are larger than I expected, extending all the way to the hash marks on both sides of the lower bowl. GA lower bowl will start at about the hash marks and travel around both goal ends.
- The "new" north upper level club is new based on overwhelming demand for club seats. I was told that more than 5000 deposits were club level. Info I received a month ago was that only 2000 seats in the arena were going to be club. I’d estimate that’s closer to 3500 now. Prior to the drive, they were unsettled on whether they’d have an upper level club. The north club is on the defensive x2 end, not the attack x2 end. Space needle club is on attack x2 end.
- GA deposits will not be able to move up into club, but club deposits can move down to GA (this has been known since before the sale).
- There is a spectator bridge level above the 300 level that will be opposite from the press boxes (like the level of the luxury suites in Rogers arena). It adds about 300-350 seats and will have 3 rows of seating. The view will be high and overhanging the lower bowl seats. I’m not sure I’d like to sit there every game, but I do like the luxury box view from Rogers on occasion. It’s a seat where you truly can see every aspect of the game and every play develop.
Seattle Metropolitans hockey team wins the Stanley Cup on March 26, 1917. - HistoryLink.org
As we all sit here and debate ad nauseum about little things, I bring you a little history lesson today. 101 years ago today, the Seattle Metropolitans won the Stanley Cup. Read and get yourself educated.
Seattle Sea Lions makes sense to me. The other Seattle major sports teams have nicknames related to the sea (Seahawks, Mariners) so why not for the hockey team?
They're both sports.
I was a professional gamer near the eSports infancy (CS/Q3) and the amount of work you need to put in is nuts. Especially in a team environment you are doing a lot of plays that requires a lot of practice.
You're not just casually sitting on a couch. You should see what RTS players do in games:
Just click to about the halfway mark as a lot of the early game they're just doing actions for the sake of keeping their heart rate up and reaction times on point (and minimizing dead time/cool down management)
This stuff is mentally and physically exhausting. There's a reason why there's a lot of gaming deaths, and that's because people don't take the nutrition part seriously even though it's as strenuous to the body as athletic sports.
OT, and only because we have no news to report....
KJR Sports Radio's two afternoon hosts, a certain Mr. Furness along with Dave Mahler, will be hosting their shows Friday from ShoWare Center in advance of the Everett-Seattle WHL playoffs first round game 4. They've put together a promotion attached to this as well. Game is on their new sidecar station, KJR 1090.
I don't know if I should be surprised or not but there really seems to be a big effort by media to get on this hockey story. I suppose I underestimated the interest for the NHL here. The ticket drive and interest I have seen has caught me by surprise in a very good way.
I hope they let the teams protect more players this time around.
I hope they let the teams protect more players this time around.
it's not, and it is... Seattle just doesn't select a player from VegasIts the same rules as Vegas
Which would make it exactly the same as the last expansion draft.it's not, and it is... Seattle just doesn't select a player from Vegas
WASN'T Vegas team 31?Which would make it exactly the same as the last expansion draft.
30 players from 30 teams.
Seattle will choose 30 players from the same 30 teams as Vegas. It's the exact same rules, Vegas is exempt from the potential Seattle expansion draft so it's exactly the same as Vegas'.WASN'T Vegas team 31?
that's what I stated, it is not the same rules as Vegas entered, since your team is exempt.....Seattle will choose 30 players from the same 30 teams as Vegas. It's the exact same rules, Vegas is exempt from the potential Seattle expansion draft so it's exactly the same as Vegas'.