Around The NHL #6 - All About The Teams Not Ours.
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f*** Vegas. Can’t wait to watch Benn and Oleksiak run these guys through the glass for the next 10 days
Following tonight's victory, Vegas takes the lead in playoff wins:
Vegas - 24
Arizona - 23
Vegas has existed for 3 years.
Vegas - 24
Arizona - 23
Vegas has existed for 3 years.
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And some people ask "why does Arizona have trouble getting more fans?"
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How do you get fans? Win. How do you win? Whelp, so far we’ve tried being a circus side-show of cronyism and nepotism and under qualified goof balls punching waaaaaaay above their weight. Oddly, it hasn’t worked yet.
So what’s the solution? Oh I don’t know, how about Rick Tocchet’s golf and gambling buddy Eddie-O? Or maybe league-schill Peter Chiarelli? Or maybe some rich guy’s son like Karmanos? Or f*** it, just some asshole from TV like Kevin Weekes. Or how about Doaner?!?!?
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In all honesty we should be glad the team is still here, but it does get old, very old. Hopefully with new ownership things get better. We use to play in front of a SRO arena when the team was good twenty years ago, so the fan base is here we just need signs of life from the organization.
I'm cheering for Tampa. A sunbelt team giving a finger to everyone north of the 49th. I would think the ownership are well aware of Hextall and his qualifications. Money may be a sticking point, although you have to spend money to make money, and I'm more than certain Meruelo knows this.
rt
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The more soul-crushing, you mean. When we pick Karmanos, and Craig learns it was because of “strong connections to the organization” and leaks that Hextall had “interpersonal skills concerns”. That it was really important the GM was a “good communicator”.
TheLegend
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-Vegas had two years to ramp up interest.
-Vegas got to hand pick a roster from existing teams.
-Vegas had no other pro sports team in town.
-Vegas had an owner with money.
What we got Chauncey???
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He also has a hearing today with Player Safety.
Who’d have thought???
Well, I thought he should have gotten a talk about the schmaltz head contact but the league didn't agree lol.
So yes indeed! Whod a thunk?!
TheLegend
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I'm not sure what you're defending? 23 playoff wins in 24 years is pathetic.
TheLegend
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1)Look at my post above at what Vegas has to work with.
2)Then go back and look at what the Coyotes have had.
3)Profit
The Coyotes best year came with no ownership and a skeleton crew at the helm. Stop making excuses for them.
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Eh, that's not really true. I don't think they had super high expectations, but I remember being pretty impressed. Didn't they have three or four 30 goal scorers after the off-season settled?
Doesn't make the Coyotes less inept.
Part of the issue is the NHL just threw the Coyotes into the Phoenix market as a last resort, after having told Colangelo, I think, that they weren't pursuing Phoenix (hence the arena not accommodating hockey). The Coyotes were to move to Minnesota, but that fell through so they wound up in Phoenix last minute. That gave them no time to prep the market and put them into a situation of needing to find a new stadium essentially from day one. The team had more economic issues that they were expected to solve on their own before day one even began. I don't think any other team has started from as bad of footing.
At the very least, Las Vegas' success, and to an extent the NHL continuing to assist the Coyotes financially to whatever degree, has shone the league has somewhat learned from its mistakes and will aid in new teams building up their fanbases. Investing more early pays off so much more when people are willing to give the new team a chance rather than come back to a team that's been on and off life-support for two decades. The rest of the league got to take advantage of a floundering team for years, padding their win totals and thus selling more tickets, as well as drawing more in from TV deals, so it's at least good new franchises don't seem to have to go through this kind of nightmare again.
At the very least, Las Vegas' success, and to an extent the NHL continuing to assist the Coyotes financially to whatever degree, has shone the league has somewhat learned from its mistakes and will aid in new teams building up their fanbases. Investing more early pays off so much more when people are willing to give the new team a chance rather than come back to a team that's been on and off life-support for two decades. The rest of the league got to take advantage of a floundering team for years, padding their win totals and thus selling more tickets, as well as drawing more in from TV deals, so it's at least good new franchises don't seem to have to go through this kind of nightmare again.
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