NHL To Resume Play In Edmonton and Toronto | Teams Arrive Sunday

[bellagiobob]

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

anyone wanna lend the hub a little better patio furniture? that's embarrassing

 

[bellagiobob]

anyone wanna lend the hub a little better patio furniture? that's embarrassing

It’s the gathering area for Flamers and Canucks players. Can’t have them ruin the good furniture.

 

[tabs]

anyone wanna lend the hub a little better patio furniture? that's embarrassing

Gotta hope that these are just them getting a visual for spacing and whatnot during the planning stage. That looks super cheap and will blow away with any wind. Got an opportunity to show off the city, arena, and team during the summer months that most of the world never sees, and this is what they put out? The weather may actually start to cooperate just in time for everyone to arrive, at least use the same type of patio furniture that is in every surrounding restaurant in the district.

 

[Cloned]

Some quotes from that article:

“We’re really fortunate to be dealing with the people from the Oilers Entertainment Group. They are fantastic. Not every NHL team is set up like OEG or had the infrastructure to pull off an event like this."

“I’m a television guy. That’s my background. I spent years producing hundreds and hundreds of television shows. So when I knew there were going to be no fans, I immediately adopted the philosophy that lets take something for the fans that are going to watch at home and make it a special viewing experience. Lets take out the seats and put on a show — make it a television event in addition to a live sporting event,” he said. “There will be all sorts of staging effects and backdrops in the stands.”

The lack of fans creates another opportunity.

“We’ll be able to move cameras around. And Rogers Place is the ideal location. The beauty of Rogers Place to me is that they went around to all the other arenas and they picked the best ideas and built an arena that’s absolutely spectacular.

“With no fans in the stands, we can position cameras in places that are absolutely ideal. We’re going to have one camera every day that goes to a different position. We’re going to have double the amount of microphones that we’ve ever had on the ice. The sound is going to be amazing. I think it will be very compelling for our fans.”

“Each team will have a meeting room, a film room and a team lounge. There are activities we’re setting up through the entire environment involving such things as e-game stations, golf simulators, ping pong tables, pool tables, indoor areas, outdoor areas and places to go if they just want to watch some hockey.

“We hope it won’t take them long to see that our general philosophy here is player-first. We’ve talked to the players on so many occasions. Connor McDavid was involved in the process. We wanted to understand what their interests are.”

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

 

[Canovin]

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Whatever happens in the bubble, stays in the bubble

 

[RinkRatOil]

anyone wanna lend the hub a little better patio furniture? that's embarrassing

Oh god. Please please dont let this turn into the Fyre Festival.

 

[GrinningBuddha]

5 days to game action!

 

[Ritchie Valens]

5 days to game action!

Who's #4 are you going to use tomorrow?

 

[GrinningBuddha]

Who's #4 are you going to use tomorrow?

I never know until it comes time to choose. But I know a thing or two about #4s, don't you worry.

 

[bellagiobob]

Who's #4 are you going to use tomorrow?

Only three possible choices. Go with the Caroline cowboy.

 

[Stoneman89]

How ironic. The last 2-3 years, the district fenced up because of construction, and then finally, enough stuff done that it opens up. Only to be fenced off again.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Official Site of the National Hockey League

45 minute detailed presentation about the hubs.

 

[Del Preston]

anyone wanna lend the hub a little better patio furniture? that's embarrassing

 

[T-Funk]

It always makes me smile when pizza places uses barbie tables on their pies.

 

[bellagiobob]

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Caleb Jones.

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

lol

 

[CupofOil]

Caleb Jones.

You think the Oilers will go 7-3-1?

I think a lot depends on next year. If Jones continues to flourish (I'm assuming that they try to move Russell), he'd be a valuable trade chip at the very least post-expansion draft so I'd consider going 4-4-1 and expose Kassian, AA, Puljujarvi etc.
Is it worth losing Jones just to protect Kassian, AA and Archibald or somebody else (Benson? Pulju?)? I don't know. It would hurt to lose Kassian in particular but not the worst thing to free up that money to fill a need. He'll be 30 by then and is a contract that might not age well on the back half.

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

The Matrix is bubbled off as well, interesting

 

[McJadeddog]

Caleb Jones.

The standard thinking is that we will go 4/4, and protect Klef, Nurse, Bear, Jones on the back end. Larsson is UFA, so we could even sign him in the off-season if the money works. No need to expose Jones.

 

[McJadeddog]

You think the Oilers will go 7-3-1?

I think a lot depends on next year. If Jones continues to flourish (I'm assuming that they try to move Russell), he'd be a valuable trade chip at the very least post-expansion draft so I'd consider going 4-4-1 and expose Kassian, AA, Puljujarvi etc.
Is it worth losing Jones just to protect Kassian, AA and Archibald or somebody else (Benson? Pulju?)? I don't know. It would hurt to lose Kassian in particular but not the worst thing to free up that money to fill a need. He'll be 30 by then and is a contract that might not age well on the back half.

Yeah, I love Kassian as much as the next guy. But deciding to expose Kassian or Jones isn't hard decision. You keep the young promising defender over the 30 year old winger every time. Even if that forward has a somewhat unique skill set.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

You think the Oilers will go 7-3-1?

I think a lot depends on next year. If Jones continues to flourish (I'm assuming that they try to move Russell), he'd be a valuable trade chip at the very least post-expansion draft so I'd consider going 4-4-1 and expose Kassian, AA, Puljujarvi etc.
Is it worth losing Jones just to protect Kassian, AA and Archibald or somebody else (Benson? Pulju?)? I don't know. It would hurt to lose Kassian in particular but not the worst thing to free up that money to fill a need. He'll be 30 by then and is a contract that might not age well on the back half.

With the plethora of D we have coming that we don’t have to protect my guess is 7-3-1. But who knows it’s just my gut feel today.