How would you feel about a Wild/Jackets SCF?

[TMLife*]

Go Blue Jackets!!!

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

A Cup final with new teams is always fun. Both teams play great hockey, with a lot of underrated players contributing.

 

[Never]

I'd watch it.

 

[TaketheCannoli]

Would be the worst finals ever

I think Columbus doesn't get that far.I haven't seen enough of the Wild to have an opinion.

I think it would be awesome just to see certain team's boards and some noticeable posters implode.

 

[Digitalbooya]

I would laugh at all the crying done by certain posters who couldn't bare to see Columbus or Minnesota (or both) in the Final. It would be amazing just because of that.

 

[Dogewow]

Would be strange, yet awesome to see.

 

[PariseNation]

giddy AF, would be a dream come true

 

[Classicnamesup]

If it was good hockey I would watch. Would probably cheer for CBJ

 

[BrindamoursNose]

Vomit

 

[John Eichel da GOAT]

Snoozefest

 

[nickschultzfan]

Snoozefest

Explain

 

[oobga]

I'd enjoy it. Would have to cheer for Dubs.

 

[John Eichel da GOAT]

Explain

Blue Jackets, while obviously talented, lack the star power.

The Wild may be the most boring team to watch in the last decade. Reminds me of the Devils in the decade before that.

Overall not much star power on either side to gather interest outside of us hf diehards and the local cities. Would be terrible for ratings.

 

[Drewcifer]

This boring thing is a trope regurgitated by a lazy hockey media that barely watches the Wild. It is especially a go to notion in media of the Canadian cities that used to be in the Northwest. Hockey fans who don't watch much beyond their own team lap it up without much critical thought. If you think the Wild are boring then you think hockey is boring, because the Wild don't play much differently than any other good team in the league. There are some teams that really struggle against the Wild. For example, one of the reasons Edmonton fans are constantly calling them boring is because we consistently shut their team down and have for a decade. That isn't boring, its getting beat.

The New Jersey references are telling. Minnesota hasn't played like that in a while.

 

[ottawa]

That would be awful. I'd like to see at least one Canadian team or a big market team in the finals (hawks, rangers, pens, etc.).

I probably would still watch a game or two, but if I'm being perfectly honest, I wouldn't be happy with the matchup.

 

[major major]

Minnesota is a big hockey market.

Ohio has big potential as a hockey market.

Some of the teams you consider big market are only big market because they are long term contenders. Believe it or not the Jackets actually outdrew the Penguins until Crosby arrived.

 

[major major]

Blue Jackets, while obviously talented, lack the star power.

The Wild may be the most boring team to watch in the last decade. Reminds me of the Devils in the decade before that.

Overall not much star power on either side to gather interest outside of us hf diehards and the local cities. Would be terrible for ratings.

The playoffs is where stars are created (in the States). No schmuck would tune in to see Jonathan "Toes" if he didn't have playoff branding behind him.

The top pair for Team USA for the next 15 years could be Zach Werenski and Seth Jones. That's a story.

 

[gretskidoo]

Any combination of 2 teams that haven't been there lately(or ever, as the case may be) would be fantastic.

 

[Butch 19]

Hockey fan elitism is alive and well.

 

[Anisimovs AK]

Minnesota is a big hockey market.

Ohio has big potential as a hockey market.

Some of the teams you consider big market are only big market because they are long term contenders. Believe it or not the Jackets actually outdrew the Penguins until Crosby arrived.

IIRC, we outdrew them the first 2 years they had Crosby as well

 

[NotYou]

The Central isn't amazing anymore but the Wild are a mediocre team propped up by fantastic, unsustainable goaltending right now. They're not a better team than Nashville and St. Louis and will very likely lose to either of them in the playoffs.

This is a great point. Dubnyk is so good he has lead them in scoring and is a big reason they're 4th in the league in scoring.

 

[YEM]

Two teams that have never been there before would be more intriguing to me
I'd much rather watch MN v. COL than, for example, Pens v. Chicago

 

[kfan22]

I love how everyone still thinks the Wild are boring, I bet a majotrity dont know the Wild are 4th in the league in goals

 

[Jesus comma Brodin]

I love how everyone still thinks the Wild are boring, I bet a majotrity dont know the Wild are 4th in the league in goals

It's cause Dubnyk though. Duh.

 

[NotWendell]

Minnesota is a big hockey market.

Ohio has big potential as a hockey market.

Some of the teams you consider big market are only big market because they are long term contenders. Believe it or not the Jackets actually outdrew the Penguins until Crosby arrived.

Ohio has SEVEN MILLION people and one NHL team. Sleeping giant.