Timmy
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nyr7andcounting said:Gary Bettman can make good on his promise and make the game more affordable for it's fans.
Link?
nyr7andcounting said:Gary Bettman can make good on his promise and make the game more affordable for it's fans.
If you don't think that Bettman hasn't used more affordable prices as a way to sell this lockout to the public you are crazy. Since I don't want to go looking around for old quotes, here is a link to Spector's site, June archives and he wrote a whole article about it. http://spectorshockey.tripod.com/June2005_soapbox_archives.htmlTimmy said:Link?
iagreewithidiots said:I dont think so.
MLB had fans before its labor issues. The NHL was falling fast. The people that were there were hardcore fans. The NHL chased away most of the casual fans before the lockout.
What is absurd, to me, is people acting like jilted lovers. Like the NHL did something to personally hurt their feelings. The NHL is not you lover and not your friend. If the NHL hurt your feelings you need to get your priorities in order.
Its a business. It shut down for a year. Now its back. If you like NHL hockey watch. If you dont watch something else. Quit thinking everyone owes you something when they do something you dont like.
Are you a hardcore fan? Do you think there may be an uproar if the NFL missed a year? Would the fans in England keep their mouths shut if the Premiership took a year off? The game gets ingrained in you and sports being what it is, is a great source of entertainment as well as a release. You come to expect it to be there. I found other things to do but for some their real joy is NHL hockey. Even if you show little respect for the diehards you have to believe the NHL feels it owes their fans and they are showing signs with reduced ticket prices. I am surprised at the cavalier attitude in thinking they do not feel they owe something. I'd say they know they have some making up to do. If Tim Hortons locked out their workers( hypothetical) and had a years shut down, then tried to come back- do you think they may try a few things to entice people back? Would they not owe their loyal fan base? They would not legally but they would be morally compelled. Such as it is with the NHL.iagreewithidiots said:I dont think so.
MLB had fans before its labor issues. The NHL was falling fast. The people that were there were hardcore fans. The NHL chased away most of the casual fans before the lockout.
What is absurd, to me, is people acting like jilted lovers. Like the NHL did something to personally hurt their feelings. The NHL is not you lover and not your friend. If the NHL hurt your feelings you need to get your priorities in order.
Its a business. It shut down for a year. Now its back. If you like NHL hockey watch. If you dont watch something else. Quit thinking everyone owes you something when they do something you dont like.
Tekneek said:I also think Tampa Bay will not be able to spend the whole cap amount if they depend solely on those sales so far. They will have to generate a lot of walk-up sales to pay the bills. Those numbers sound good and make decent print, but it won't finance a hockey team.
RLC said:NO PULL ? TRY this , our games are in HD we will entertain selling our rights to stations that can trasnmit our signal, if your station wants to transmit both 480i and 1080i together then you can do so.
cbc, src, tsn, rogers, ctv and so on. IF you want NHL games then make sure you can transmit in both regular and HD
Golden Ducky said:I do predict the NHL will create there own NHL channel (not tsn nhl network)and sell there feed to other stations , I think MLB does that right.
missK said:I think $400,000 in season-ticket sales and $100,000 in suite sales IN ONE DAY this past Thursday is a damn good start!
Tampa Tribune
And then there's the 93% retention rate of season ticket holders from the 04-05 lockout (which includes the additional 4,000 season ticket holders since our Stanley Cup Championship).
NYRGoalieGlut said:They can brainwash all of America into thinking that it was created in the United States. That's about the only thing, Americans don't like games that they didn't invent. They would even pretend that baseball is interesting to watch a game they invented and pretend that hockey's boring in order to avoid watching a game that they didn't invent.