Now that’s splitting hairs over playing in a suburb. Are you sure you’re not Hutch? Kanata to Ottawa is a further drive than Cedar Park to Austin. We still call them the Ottawa Senators. Rosemont to the center of Chicago is a longer drive than Cedar Park is to Austin. They’re still called the Chicago Wolves. It is equidistant to the Mavericks location with respect to Kansas City and even 1.5 times closer than Duluth to Atlanta for the Gladiators. You get the point. Nice try, I’ll give you a few cracks at it again if you want.
It is not like San José and San Francisco. San José is it’s own city with more than 2 million people. There’s plenty there to make it not need something else nearby. And White Plains is literally one of the best known suburbs for NYC commuters, which would hurt your argument more than it helps. That’s an example of the rare self-defeating argument. Once again, I’ll give you a few more cracks at it if you’re up for it.
And you only made one point. I see a “first,” but no “secondly” or “next.” I’m going to assume you got so tired from thinking that being relatively near far reaching surburban sections of Chicago itself is pertinent and just got tuckered out. Both my points stand. As well as the team being much better off down there than in Dallas.
@axecrew get the tape measure and protractor out, it’s happening again.
So, Rosemont actually borders Chicago, damn near surrounded by it. Look at the map.
It is the Texas Stars not the Austin Stars and we were talking about driving distance, not names.
Having made the drive, driving from downtown Austin to Dallas is way different than driving From Round Rock/Cedar Park to Dallas.
So when you decide to make the drive yourself, then you can start spewing about the difference between Cedar Park and Round Rock.
You are the one that brings up the ridiculous naming situations. I dont give a rat's patoot about the name of the clubs.
So let's go back to the original post. Being in Ft. Worth, not Arlington or Grand Prairie or Denton, or the HEB area would cut driving time by about 90 to 120 minutes depending on time of day, where they are during the call up, etc.
If you bother looking at the NHL CBA, there are very specific time deadlines for when call ups and send downs have to occur by in order for time on the NHL club, and therefore their NHL Salary ad per diems, are in effect. It also goes towards counting the number of days they are on the team for free call-ups and send downs.
All of this factors into the NHL decision as to where their AHL affiliate plays. So if it is easier for the NHL team to get their players on a flight from DFW than it is for them to drive from Cedar Park to the Austin Airport, or even the same, the flight schedule form DFW is far better than the crap schedule out of Austin.
And hutch jr, when you have traveled around the country by both plane and car as much as I have, then you can start spewing off interesting facts, until then, just try to stay sparring with hutch, who I hope is OK since he hasn't posted in a while.