SimonEdvinssonAtSix
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Speculation: With Covid around is our private plane an advantage?
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Gniwder
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Considering what happened with the Cardinals, and Toronto not allowing baseball games in that city, I would not be surprised if the NHL decided to play the entire season in Edm/Tor bubble. Makes the private plane discussion moot.
It would suck for the players, but they have to be willing to make some sacrifices for $1M+ salaries.
It would suck for the players, but they have to be willing to make some sacrifices for $1M+ salaries.
I've heard we have world class hand sanitizer too
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I think this is the only hope for a full season.
Are players willing to sacrifice that kind of freedom and be away from their families? I don't know. It's easy enough when it's just the playoffs like now, but the full 82 game grind?
TCNorthstars
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Other teams aren’t flying coach here. They are still on chartered planes.
And all the East coast teams that get to bus from place to place for half their games. The Rangers aren't just a draw for their market, but the travel (or lack thereof) is absolutely the best.
Gniwder
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You gotta figure in the salary. Playing careers are limited, and $1M is a lot of money, and that's the low end of salary. The average league salary is $2.78M. I'd sacrifice freedom for that, just shorten the season so it ends in June (including playoffs).
As for the Rangers, you ever visit NY? I hate that city, but then again I hate Detroit and Seattle too.
Used to live an hour train ride from NYC. I'm not really a big city guy so it wasn't my thing, but I get the appeal for a young hockey player. They can live quite a life there and avoid all kinds of travel.
I wonder if there is an opportunity to do some kind of roaming bubble where we’d fly into Edmonton for example and have games against the oilers, flames, Canucks then go to Minnesota and play the jets wild and hawks. Later play a series at home with the kings, sharks, ducks and yotes coming to town then head up to Toronto to against the Habs, leafs, sens and jackets. etc. The schedule makers will be working a lot of overtime to make something like this feasible. Just spit balling here
Gniwder
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If I had my choice of NHL cities to live in, top 3 are:
1) Denver
2) Vegas
3) San Jose
Just goes to show how weird I am, I guess.
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I don't think that's "easy enough" to be honest.
Playoffs, including play-ins, last 2 1/2 months.
82Ninety42011
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Vancouver and San Jose for me. However to play in NHL if I could lol I'd be happy anywhere.
Only for a couple teams. And staying longer means you're playing for playoff glory, which takes all the sting out of it. Not so much over the 82 game grind when you're on the Red Wings.
Steve Yzerlland
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This makes a ton of sense, so I have little hope of it happening.
I'm sorry, Sirloin, but you're overqualified to work for the NHL at this time.
SimonEdvinssonAtSix
It's possible to commit no mistakes and still lose
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I don't know why I didn't think about this. You're absolutely right.
Thanks for the serious reply and not some silly MEME format.
Retire91
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Even before Covid I don't think there is a single professional sports team that shares a plane with others especially the general public.
Edit: I should probably clarify when I say professional sports team I mean major sport major league.
Edit: I should probably clarify when I say professional sports team I mean major sport major league.
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Gniwder
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I live an hour south of Vancouver, not real fond of that city or Seattle.
I'd do Detroit and DC just because I'm already familiar with them, but yeah, if I could play in the NHL, I wouldn't care which city.
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You don’t want Vegas, trust me. Went to my backyard at 7:30AM last week and about burnt my toes off on the turf. Routinely gets 110+ in the summer. I’m initially from a small town in Indy (so probably biased) but most of my neighbors aren’t exactly “warm”.
My top three in no particular order
Denver, Vancouver, Nashville
If money was no object, I don't think there's a damn person alive that shouldn't be picking Vancouver.
But since I went into academia instead of investment banking, I have some mixed feelings about it.
But since I went into academia instead of investment banking, I have some mixed feelings about it.
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Gniwder
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I live in Bellingham. The lines at Costco are a lot shorter after we banned you people. And the traffic moves a lot better. So sick of Canadian shoppers driving 50 mph and crowding Costco, lol. I'm still waiting for Trump to build a damn wall to keep you people out.
I've been in Vegas and Death Valley in the middle of summer. Trust me, it's better than Manitoba in the middle of winter. Also, hockey is a winter sport, and I'd be rich, so I'd probably have a summer house in the UP or something.
Ummmm.... no. I live an hour south and I avoid it. I would go with Denver for best big city. It's the big city for people who don't like big cities, very little city attitude there.
Gniwder
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Get a job with WWU, I live here (one hour south):If money was no object, I don't think there's a damn person alive that shouldn't be picking Vancouver.
But since I went into academia instead of investment banking, I have some mixed feelings about it.
