derbyfan
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Just wondering, how do you think fans will respond to the NHL, once this *%@!ing thing is finally over? Not just in Carolina, Phoenix and Nashville, but also up here in the great white north? I'd love to hear what people think.
Personally, I'm pretty fed up (not that that's a shock). I was thinking of the MLB situation of a decade ago.
Now, back in '94, when the baseball strike went down, things were pretty rosy here in Toronto. Back-to-back World Series champs, 50,000 per game, a city in love with it's team. My family had a 1/2 share of season tickets, and going to a Jays game was always an event. After the strike, baseball in this town never recovered.
In fact, it took years for the game to recover in quite a few markets (never did of course, in Montreal - R.I.P. Expos ).
Dad cancelled his tickets after 10 years of subscribing. For me, it just never FELT the same.
I'm not sure how else to describe it... That strike just seemed to drive a stake between the Jays and their loyal fanbase. The slide has continued for years.
I understand that some might say that baseball hadn't been around long enough in Toronto to be truly ingrained in our mindset.
Yet the city has a colorful ball history that goes back over a century, and this is a city that absolutely CRAVES the "major league" tag. Something happened there that, in my opinion, has never been fully erased.
So what will happen with hockey? How bad will the impact with the fans be south of the border? How are YOU, the paying hockey fan, feeling about this?
Will you go back when they "fix" this thing?
Or will YOU hold out?
And in Canada, will the response (at the gate) be worse than most seem to be predicting? I get the impression that most seem to think that we Canadians will be so happy our beloved game is finally back, that we flock back to the opulent corporate palaces that pass for arenas these days.
Or will the hardcore fans, the ones that gave their heart and soul to their teams, and paid for tickets out of their own hard-earned cash (rather than corporate freebies) feel that they've lost something that was there before...and stop blowing their money to line the pockets of millionaire players and owners?
Let's hear some opinions.
P.S. As for me, I'm having a hell of a time watching junior hockey...
Personally, I'm pretty fed up (not that that's a shock). I was thinking of the MLB situation of a decade ago.
Now, back in '94, when the baseball strike went down, things were pretty rosy here in Toronto. Back-to-back World Series champs, 50,000 per game, a city in love with it's team. My family had a 1/2 share of season tickets, and going to a Jays game was always an event. After the strike, baseball in this town never recovered.
In fact, it took years for the game to recover in quite a few markets (never did of course, in Montreal - R.I.P. Expos ).
Dad cancelled his tickets after 10 years of subscribing. For me, it just never FELT the same.
I'm not sure how else to describe it... That strike just seemed to drive a stake between the Jays and their loyal fanbase. The slide has continued for years.
I understand that some might say that baseball hadn't been around long enough in Toronto to be truly ingrained in our mindset.
Yet the city has a colorful ball history that goes back over a century, and this is a city that absolutely CRAVES the "major league" tag. Something happened there that, in my opinion, has never been fully erased.
So what will happen with hockey? How bad will the impact with the fans be south of the border? How are YOU, the paying hockey fan, feeling about this?
Will you go back when they "fix" this thing?
Or will YOU hold out?
And in Canada, will the response (at the gate) be worse than most seem to be predicting? I get the impression that most seem to think that we Canadians will be so happy our beloved game is finally back, that we flock back to the opulent corporate palaces that pass for arenas these days.
Or will the hardcore fans, the ones that gave their heart and soul to their teams, and paid for tickets out of their own hard-earned cash (rather than corporate freebies) feel that they've lost something that was there before...and stop blowing their money to line the pockets of millionaire players and owners?
Let's hear some opinions.
P.S. As for me, I'm having a hell of a time watching junior hockey...
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