Predators raise a "Regular Season Western Conference Champions" banner....

[puckIuck]

they're essentially honoring a game 7 blow out loss to Winnipeg

 

[Gnashville]

Along with each individual game they won.

Along with each goal they scored

I don’t own the team but I would have hung one banner with all 3 accomplishments on it.

 

[tarheelhockey]

This sort of thing is why they have divisions and conferences in the first place. It’s in the league’s governing documents. No, I’m not being sarcastic.

 

[OVO16]

LMAO wow

 

[the4thlinegrinder]

Definitely

They raised three. President's Trophy banner (deserved) Central Division champs (deserved) and Western Conference Regular Season champs (lol?)

I mean, it’s harder to finish first in a conference than a division. It’s just that we are used to division banners but not conference banners.

 

[Varan]

I was thinking isn't it normal for teams to have conference/division banners, then I see they have a ceremony for it...

now that you mention it, I'm cringing

 

[The Beyonder]

That is pretty sad. They're competing for a bigger banner and you put up that crap. What were they thinking?

 

[treple13]

You should be raising banners after you earn them. Raise those banners in the regular season after you clinch them. It'd seem a lot less crazy.

 

[HanSolo]

Better than the fans are number 1 banner.

 

[Its a Trap]

 

[heynowbababooey]

Hang all the banners you want but the only one that deserves a ceremony is a Cup banner.

 

[Cellee]

Western Conference Regular Season "Champion"

 

[Machinehead]

It's their damn rafters, they can hang what they want.

 

[Cellee]

And the rest of us can laugh.

 

[Bounces R Way]

It's their damn rafters, they can hang what they want.

 

[TMLeafer]

Don't they do this in the NBA? Pretty sure the Raptors put up a banner when they won the Eastern conference, or maybe it was for winning the division. There wasn't a ceremony though.

 

[Cellee]

The President's Trophy means you had the most points in the regular season. There is no regular season Championship.

 

[triggrman]

Detroit, San Jose, Dallas and Washington have all hung regular season conference championship banners

 

[triggrman]

 

[Canada4Gold]

What's next? October Southeast Quadrant of the United States Champions? Best NHL Team in Tennessee?

 

[Cellee]

Equally stupid/embarrassing.

 

[kalessin]

What’s interesting is that Ottawa used to have a divisional banner and they took it down.

That's valuable cloth. They made five jerseys from that banner.

 

[Cellee]

The Jets need banners.

We should raise a 2017-18 Western Conference Regular Season Championship Finals banner and 2017-17 President's Trophy Runner Up banner.

 

[Chips]

I thought the Caps and some other teams have done this? I don’t see the big deal personally, presidents trophy isn’t nothing.

It’s about building pride and support locally amongst fans , Not so much about impressing random people from elsewhere in the league.


Not everyone subscribes to the “Stanley Cup or nothing” mindset. 82 games is a lot of games to just ignore

 

[Syckle78]

I'm kinda surprised nobody has hung an advanced stats champions banner yet.