Confirmed with Link: Ryan O'Byrne to Toronto for a 4th rounder

[The Kingslayer]

That was more Phaneuf's fault than O'Byrne's.

yah Dion was at fault but its not like Horton was apart of the scoring play. It was essentially a 2 on 2 thanks to Kessels strong back check and ROB skated backwards right into Reimer. ROB stood there and did nothing. Oooooh how I dont miss that haha

 

[henchman21]

I think Toronto would hate ROB less if he wasn't put into stupid positions by the coaching staff. ROB playing the left side is dumb, as is playing on a pairing with Phanuef. Don't do either one of those, and put him on the bottom pairing and he will be competent enough for people to not hate him.

 

[tucker3434]

Its funny how many out-of-towners say that if they lived in Denver they'd get season tickets in hot minute, but then they don't realize how expensive it is when you add in parking concessions etc. Its not very realistic to get season tickets, its just too expensive. There are very few people that have season tickets to any of the major sports teams in any town. Its usually the corporations and the wealthy. I'm not poor but I couldn't afford season tickets if my life depended on it, thats why I go to about 8 games every year about 1/5 of the home games. Sure I'd love to go to more, but I can live with only going to about 8 and not blowing my budget. It doesn't mean I don't watch every game, and it doesn't make me any less a fan, its just realistically what I can afford to do.

The reason the Avs are struggling with attendance isn't due to lack of season ticket holders its due to high competition for peoples money. When the Nuggets are good, the Broncos are good and the Rockies are tolerable but have one of the best fan experiences in professional sports its going to hard for a poor Avs team to wrestle money away from the other teams. Once the Avs put a competitive product out on the ice the casual fans will start to come back. They might go to a few less Nuggets games and Rockies games and add a few Avs games in. Thats just how it works, good team=lots of fans, poor team=less fans. Every team goes through it, Avs used to sell out every game and the Nuggets were terrible and got nobody to come to games. When the Avs get better the casual fan will be back in the seats and the Avs will sell out the stadium again.

Well my yearly trip for two runs me between $2-3k when everything is totaled up. That alone would buy me some cheap season tickets.

And like I said, I was in line to get season tickets for the Thrashers before they left town. If I ever end up in Denver, one of the first things I do will be to buy season tickets.

 

[niwotsblessing]

Also, there isnt any public transport available to get to the arena?
No metro/subway?

There are some hitching posts in front of the Pepsi Center, but effective public transport only serves certain areas of Denver.

Subway? Friend, this is America, we don't spend money on services that benefit the public like subways and healthcare, that there's socialism.

 

[Stories]

There are some hitching posts in front of the Pepsi Center, but effective public transport only serves certain areas of Denver.

Subway? Friend, this is America, we don't spend money on services that benefit the public like subways and healthcare, that there's socialism.

Boston, New York, Chicago, and DC all have subway access to their hockey arenas My studio in DC is way too expensive... But hey, I've got central A/C!

Of course, it's hard to actually live financially sound in these cities.

 

[Foppa2118]

yah Dion was at fault but its not like Horton was apart of the scoring play. It was essentially a 2 on 2 thanks to Kessels strong back check and ROB skated backwards right into Reimer. ROB stood there and did nothing. Oooooh how I dont miss that haha

I don't care too much about OB since he's not on the team anymore, and you're definitely right that he was awful this year, but I'd suggest watching that play again. Kessel tried to skate back, but there's no way he was in position to block the pass or tie of the stick if OB wasn't there. It would have been an easy tap in play.

He got back to tie up the stick at the last second only because Krejci slowed way down and waited till the last second to shoot, since O'Byrne had taken away the pass. O'Byrne was a little slow moving his stick from blocking the pass to blocking the shot, but that's not his main priority. He was blocking the pass, he wasn't doing nothing. It was pretty textbook.

Phaneuf's an idiot for thinking he could get that loose puck, and for making such a risky pinch in OT.

 

[Alex Jones]

Boston, New York, Chicago, and DC all have subway access to their hockey arenas My studio in DC is way too expensive... But hey, I've got central A/C!

Of course, it's hard to actually live financially sound in these cities.

All those areas are filled with socialist liberals.

 

[Stories]

All those areas are filled with socialist liberals.

Politics aside, the convenience of living on a subway line to get around is great, though. It's also way cheaper than car ownership and you can read or play with your phone or something while commuting wherever you're going. It's great. Also, being able to walk (literally 1 minute) to any grocery store or restaurant you want without hopping into a car is also lovely.

I think if I ever get a job in an area without really good transit infrastructure, I'm going to be a really sad panda. Not needing a car (even though I have one but rarely use it) has been a great great experience for the past 10 years.