Travel will be rough. If they get the chance to end it in 5, they can to do it, unlike the 2011 team that had to go 7 vs Chicago. Don't want to do that nearly 4 hour flight to Nashville twice.
People in the East don't get how rough it is for the West in a 1 vs 8 format and so many time zones.
Beauvillier has 29 points in 49 playoff games. Actually insanely impressive for someone as vanilla as him
His first job is to educate/inform players about SLC, Utah. What do any in the NHL know about it? Aside from the Jazz, the games in 2002 which no player today was a part of and thus didn't attend. Probably need to break some preconceptions about the place first.
Yup, which is why it's always impressive when a Western Conference team wins the Cup. All you can hope for is a short series for the Nucks in this 1st round
Van to Nash by miles is probably the combined total of all 4 Eastern series by distance.
Honestly, it's better to not have a team there while they figure out an arena if they can. I don't trust AM to get it done.
Yep. If Fertitia had not been so critical of the price, and just say, I would like an NHL team but I would need to make sure that the economics work. Something general like that, which is fair. Not say, stuff about the NHL south of the Mississippi. I think he would have been close to the front of the line, then the NHL doesn't have to move the Coyotes to a non NHL arena.
I'm not afraid of Vegas but ideally you want some of these teams to beat up each other before you face them.
