But he is right that its the biggest Hockey City in the world. Every other claim on that can go away. If your team is doing well its easy to support them. When they aren't and you still sell out every game and have crazy fans cheering you on no matter what that is Truly Hockeytown. Hockey City Planet Hockey. Whatever you want to call it that's what Toronto is.
Sportsnet: Toronto pitching to host NHL events
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Daisy Jane
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LEAFS WANT ALL THE THINGS:
http://theleafsnation.com/2014/7/14/leafs-want-all-the-things/score#comments
http://theleafsnation.com/2014/7/14/leafs-want-all-the-things/score#comments
So does anyone have any kind of actual source on this "Winnipeg will get Canada's first Winter Classic" silliness?
Okay, I did find a reference that Winnipeg will supposedly get an outdoor game in 2016, but I suspect it will be a Heritage Classic rather than a Winter Classic. Frankly, if the first Winter Classic in Canada was held in Winnipeg, I would consider it an insult to all the other Canadian teams. And frankly, it might cause me to stop watching the NHL.
Okay, I did find a reference that Winnipeg will supposedly get an outdoor game in 2016, but I suspect it will be a Heritage Classic rather than a Winter Classic. Frankly, if the first Winter Classic in Canada was held in Winnipeg, I would consider it an insult to all the other Canadian teams. And frankly, it might cause me to stop watching the NHL.
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Toronto Maple Leafs want everything for their birthday!
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...ar-game-winter-classic-world-cup-tim-leiweke/
I personally would like to see at least the all star game for the Leafs 100th birthday. I like what Tim is doing, you shoot for the stars and your bound to get at least 2 of the 4.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...ar-game-winter-classic-world-cup-tim-leiweke/
I personally would like to see at least the all star game for the Leafs 100th birthday. I like what Tim is doing, you shoot for the stars and your bound to get at least 2 of the 4.
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Toronto should get all of them... and they probably will. A centennial anniversary is a big deal.
Suckitude aside, the Leafs have been a big money maker for the NHL. Toronto and the GTA produces a crap load of NHL players as well.
No reason why Toronto couldn't host all of the fan events in that year.
I just hope we can have a team by then that isn't a complete joke.
Suckitude aside, the Leafs have been a big money maker for the NHL. Toronto and the GTA produces a crap load of NHL players as well.
No reason why Toronto couldn't host all of the fan events in that year.
I just hope we can have a team by then that isn't a complete joke.
the florida panthers are hosting the 2015 nhl entry draft,so the likely chance of it staying out the southern us cities is slim to none and the nhl has already said that Nashville will get to host the NHL all-star game in the future(might be the 2016 all -star game),they have placed a bids for the 2016,2017,2018,and 2019 all star game
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We better get all the events like MTL did. No reason not to.
Oh and we will vote our scrubs to start the ASG too!
Oh and we will vote our scrubs to start the ASG too!
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Forbes list came out today - #26 overall, and the only NHL team worth over a billion. (and Bettman said if the Clippers were being sold at 2 billion (AND THEY STINK) this means some other NHL clubs are worth around that - which means the Leafs could very well be worth more than 1.15 billion).
quite frankly - Lieweke shouldn't have had to say a blessed thing. The mere fact Montreal had everything on the basis that they were 100, should have ended all discussion. Centennial teams get everything. the end. Us, then New York, then Boston, Detroit, Chicago (however they fall out)
I think Bettman is going to do it like this
World Cup, ASG, Draft - Leafs Host
Heritage Game - Us vs. Montreal (they host if BMO isn't ready)
Winter Classic (Us vs. Boston)?
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If we can't get the winter classic, surely we could arrange a Heritage Classic with the Habs.
that would be great.
that would be great.
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I'm fine with the all star game being shared around but I don't believe the entry draft should be down there;
we can debate about how much hockey is followed in the south but how many Southern USA fans follow junior hockey or know anything about these prospects? Remember the 'seen Stamkos' campaign in Tampa 2008? While the NHL and AHL is predominantly played in the states, the majority of players getting drafted are still getting drafted out of Canadian junior teams.
I was at toronto in 2002 and especially the late rounds were still fun because I was hanging with a bunch of OHL fans and a lot of us still recognized some of the players getting drafted in the late rounds.
To those using the 'montreal got everything in their centennial year' argument; I'm not saying it's right or wrong but the leafs centennial will fall the same year as the NHL centennial. That will be the argument for whatever events Toronto is not awarded. It will also be 50 years since the original expansion (though that will likely be celebrated by another NHL expansion).
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On January 1st of this year Winnipeg was colder than Mars. There is no way.
