TheImpatientPanther
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Even CGY took revenue sharing just a couple years ago no?
WPG operates at a loss along with 6-7 other teams.
Not just US markets that are hurting
You looking for a new team to support? Here's 10 great reasons to become a Toronto Maple Leafs fan
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Even CGY took revenue sharing just a couple years ago no?
WPG operates at a loss along with 6-7 other teams.
Not just US markets that are hurting
MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
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Plot twist: this thread will never end.
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Fatass
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Before 1970, I was a Leaf’s fan, and celebrated the Cups of the sixties - especially ‘67. They had great players then, who put the team’s winning first.
Over the following decades I grew to like my current team (Canucks) and REALLY HATE the Leafs. I must admit I still have plenty of Leaf’s memorabilia, but nothing newer than Darryl Sittler’s rookie card.
Over the following decades I grew to like my current team (Canucks) and REALLY HATE the Leafs. I must admit I still have plenty of Leaf’s memorabilia, but nothing newer than Darryl Sittler’s rookie card.
Butch 19
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1. I hate the term "original 6" more every time I hear it.
3. The future looks bright. Doesn't EVERY team say this every year?
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Haven't won a cup in ages
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Haven't won a playoff series in a long time
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Deep pockets
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Great management?
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Haven't won a playoff series in a long time
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Deep pockets
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Great management?
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They have Pridham who is basically if Stephen Hawking was doing math for a hockey team.
Shanny is in Mensa as well.
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If there was one thing this site didn't have enough of already, it's Leafs fans.
I actually thought that this was one of his better efforts not that it means much in the big scheme of things.
I'd read more but I need to brush up on the best vacuums to buy for my wife Christmas and other pressing needs.
Plot Twist Twist: Bear of Bad News has an alternate account named Mulletman to troll the verify message board he moderates.
RageQuit77
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Had a bad day. This made it much better, overall. Thanks!
Sadly I must abstain from being a fan of this awesome team and franchise myself, but I promise I will follow their games more closely now when they finally have an all-times great player in their roster.
Sadly I must abstain from being a fan of this awesome team and franchise myself, but I promise I will follow their games more closely now when they finally have an all-times great player in their roster.
CupsOverCash
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But I thought Toronto fans were oppressed due to the oh so horrible salary cap!! Why ask to be oppressed?
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Lt Dan
F*** your ice cream!
I'll play along. This started as a parody of the OP, but it kinda veered off on to a one way street
You looking for a new team to support? Here's 10 great reasons to become a Los Angeles Kings fan
1. The Kings are Second Six team with a checkered history.
How many other teams can boast that one of their former owner’s internet bio title is “Criminal” No One!
Who else can claim their next owner went bankrupt after your owner went to prison! Nobody else!
2. Los Angeles in the most international city in North America.
Want a bacon wrapped guacamole covered hot dog covered in onions and habanero cooked over charcoal in a stolen shopping cart with negative regard for sanitation?
There is no other place!!!
Want a Beyainatu platter the perfect ending to watching your team get destroyed during yet another day game? You can’t get one in many other places.
Want to celebrate being knocked out of the playoffs in December with all you can eat Bulgogi? You can do it in Los Angeles!
3 The Kings have one of the best pools in hockey.
We aren’t talking about actual players here, we are talking about the pool at Dustin Brown’s almost 7 million dollar mansion on the beach. There is an infrared sauna sits near a saltwater swimming pool surrounded by palm trees where you can lay in the sun 362 days a year.
4. The Kings have changed jersey designs more often than most change their underwear.
Have you ever wanted a jersey that looks like a fast food icon? Or want people to think you are really a Laker fan wearing long sleeves? The Kings are your team
Like wearing purple and have people think that you are a fan of Sacramento basketball? No other team can offer this luxury!
5. Do you love to hate team management?
Many fans consider Rob Blake, the teams General Manager a traitor. His nickanme is Judas.
It’s popular in sports to be unhappy with management. But, the Kings are the only team in hockey with a General Manager that stripped himself of the Captaincy as a player of the team and was booed by it’s fanbase in two other rival organizations.
6. The Kings owners bought the team to build a stadium and develop old closed sweatshops in Downtown LA.
Want to watch a mediocre team in one of the nicest and best maintained arenas in the world surrounded by miles of shopping, hotels, restaurants mere minutes from skid row ! The Kings are your team!!!
7. No matter how well the team does you will always be in the shadows of the Lakers, Dodgers, and the NFL teams
Who wants attention? Instagram whores. If you aren’t an Instagram whore and want to lay low, throw on a Kings jersey. In a city of over 10 million almost no one will care!
Even when you win 2 championships in 3 seasons, few will notice! If you aren't an attention whore, we are your team!
8. If you want a long traffic filled hell of a drive to a stadium with little to no public transportation….
Do you love to hate the environment? Want to burn up multiple brontosaurus fossils on the 10 freeway going 3 mph for 3 hours uphill both ways?
Is paying $25 to park your dream?!
This is your team!
9.Want to hear local news anchors come up with seemingly impossible butchering of your player names and have them call the puck a ball? WE ARE YOUR TEAM!
10 . Do you dream of endlessly having your fandom questioned because of stereotypes about your city?
Ever wanted to be told you aren’t a real fan simply based on where you were born? Have you ever wanted to be accused of arriving late and leaving early? Ever wanted to be called a bandwagoner when your team finally wins even though you have watched every game for the last 30 years. We got you fam!
You looking for a new team to support? Here's 10 great reasons to become a Los Angeles Kings fan
1. The Kings are Second Six team with a checkered history.
How many other teams can boast that one of their former owner’s internet bio title is “Criminal” No One!
Who else can claim their next owner went bankrupt after your owner went to prison! Nobody else!
2. Los Angeles in the most international city in North America.
Want a bacon wrapped guacamole covered hot dog covered in onions and habanero cooked over charcoal in a stolen shopping cart with negative regard for sanitation?
There is no other place!!!
Want a Beyainatu platter the perfect ending to watching your team get destroyed during yet another day game? You can’t get one in many other places.
Want to celebrate being knocked out of the playoffs in December with all you can eat Bulgogi? You can do it in Los Angeles!
3 The Kings have one of the best pools in hockey.
We aren’t talking about actual players here, we are talking about the pool at Dustin Brown’s almost 7 million dollar mansion on the beach. There is an infrared sauna sits near a saltwater swimming pool surrounded by palm trees where you can lay in the sun 362 days a year.
4. The Kings have changed jersey designs more often than most change their underwear.
Have you ever wanted a jersey that looks like a fast food icon? Or want people to think you are really a Laker fan wearing long sleeves? The Kings are your team
Like wearing purple and have people think that you are a fan of Sacramento basketball? No other team can offer this luxury!
5. Do you love to hate team management?
Many fans consider Rob Blake, the teams General Manager a traitor. His nickanme is Judas.
It’s popular in sports to be unhappy with management. But, the Kings are the only team in hockey with a General Manager that stripped himself of the Captaincy as a player of the team and was booed by it’s fanbase in two other rival organizations.
6. The Kings owners bought the team to build a stadium and develop old closed sweatshops in Downtown LA.
Want to watch a mediocre team in one of the nicest and best maintained arenas in the world surrounded by miles of shopping, hotels, restaurants mere minutes from skid row ! The Kings are your team!!!
7. No matter how well the team does you will always be in the shadows of the Lakers, Dodgers, and the NFL teams
Who wants attention? Instagram whores. If you aren’t an Instagram whore and want to lay low, throw on a Kings jersey. In a city of over 10 million almost no one will care!
Even when you win 2 championships in 3 seasons, few will notice! If you aren't an attention whore, we are your team!
8. If you want a long traffic filled hell of a drive to a stadium with little to no public transportation….
Do you love to hate the environment? Want to burn up multiple brontosaurus fossils on the 10 freeway going 3 mph for 3 hours uphill both ways?
Is paying $25 to park your dream?!
This is your team!
9.Want to hear local news anchors come up with seemingly impossible butchering of your player names and have them call the puck a ball? WE ARE YOUR TEAM!
10 . Do you dream of endlessly having your fandom questioned because of stereotypes about your city?
Ever wanted to be told you aren’t a real fan simply based on where you were born? Have you ever wanted to be accused of arriving late and leaving early? Ever wanted to be called a bandwagoner when your team finally wins even though you have watched every game for the last 30 years. We got you fam!
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Viqsi
"that chick from Ohio"
Well, the challenge was made, so I guess I feel obliged to meet it.
Top 10 reasons why it's even better to be a Jackets fan:
1. We have a cannon.
Really, that should be enough by itself, but there's other reasons to elaborate on.
2. Jackets fandom implicitly demonstrates your commitment to the game.
Any random whoever can be a fan of the Leafs or the Rangers or any of those other popular teams, or of one of those newcomers like the Golden Knights or the Kraken. It's easy to jump on those bandwagons. By contrast, most casual fans forget we even exist at all. We're a perpetual dark horse with a fanbase that is largely strictly regional. Being a Jackets fan means you stand out as someone exceptional.
3. Defensemen.
We brazenly stole this one from the Preds and aren't giving it back. Werenski/Jones is potentially the best blueline pairing in the NHL, and the others aren't that bad either. If you like defensive play, they're really fun to watch.
4. Seriously, we have a cannon.
Decades-old traditions have their own appeal, to be sure, but it's even more fun to be part of one that's really begun to get up off the ground floor. The cannon qualifies. It's there because of a fan initiative (so you can claim partial credit for it being there), and it punctuates every positive moment on the ice with style. It's something more to be proud of, in addition to the team. Everybody has a goal siren of some kind, but only we set off literal explosive charges for every goal.
5. John Tortorella is much more awesome when he's on your side.
Yes, he had a bit of a clownshow reputation. But he's actually a pretty awesome guy once you get into the details. And c'mon; who doesn't enjoy having a guy like that in their corner?
6. Bright future? Yeah, we've got that too.
The Jackets have been among the youngest team in the League for several years running, and have arguably the youngest core in the League. No single-standout forward names (unless you count Dubois), but the team is top-to-bottom well stocked, the crease has spectacularity potential, and the blueline is already badass. And these guys are all in their low-to-mid 20s. It'll be worth sticking around.
7. The Drunken Master Of GMing runs the show here.
If you're the type who enjoys rollercoasters, following Jarmo Kekalainen's moves are guaranteed to induce a similar effect. He's about as predictable as a butterfly in a hurricane, and yet he still keeps the team competitive and doing well. Doug MacLean kept claiming that his moves were impressive and attention-grabbing; Kekalainen actually does it, and the team keeps coming out the better for it. It's wild.
8. You get respected, rather than hated.
Turning heel full-time sounds fun in theory, but in practice it's emotionally exhausting. Instead, the most common comment you'll see about the Jackets reflects a dawning sense of respect. We haven't been around griping for decades and making nuisances of ourselves enough to set folks off, so when people do take notice of us, it's when they're up against the team on the ice... and they're obliged to notice that, hey, yeah, this is a respectable opponent. It's a nice feeling.
9. When we do lose, it's usually a credit to our opponents rather than a knock on our team.
For the last four years running, the Eastern Conference winner has had to contend with us on the way to the Cup finals. Tampa Bay might not have gone all the way if it weren't for having to face us as their boogeyman. We're in the toughest division in hockey and we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those teams; we're not a passenger. And this team never quits; if we are to go down, we go down hard. That's something to be proud of - and worth respecting, since nowadays it's harder to win a division title than it is to win an O6-era Stanley Cup.
10. I did mention the cannon, right?
Point and laugh at the fans who flinch when it's fired. Smile smugly at the media personalities who complain, because they're just jealous. This could be you.
Top 10 reasons why it's even better to be a Jackets fan:
1. We have a cannon.
Really, that should be enough by itself, but there's other reasons to elaborate on.
2. Jackets fandom implicitly demonstrates your commitment to the game.
Any random whoever can be a fan of the Leafs or the Rangers or any of those other popular teams, or of one of those newcomers like the Golden Knights or the Kraken. It's easy to jump on those bandwagons. By contrast, most casual fans forget we even exist at all. We're a perpetual dark horse with a fanbase that is largely strictly regional. Being a Jackets fan means you stand out as someone exceptional.
3. Defensemen.
We brazenly stole this one from the Preds and aren't giving it back. Werenski/Jones is potentially the best blueline pairing in the NHL, and the others aren't that bad either. If you like defensive play, they're really fun to watch.
4. Seriously, we have a cannon.
Decades-old traditions have their own appeal, to be sure, but it's even more fun to be part of one that's really begun to get up off the ground floor. The cannon qualifies. It's there because of a fan initiative (so you can claim partial credit for it being there), and it punctuates every positive moment on the ice with style. It's something more to be proud of, in addition to the team. Everybody has a goal siren of some kind, but only we set off literal explosive charges for every goal.
5. John Tortorella is much more awesome when he's on your side.
Yes, he had a bit of a clownshow reputation. But he's actually a pretty awesome guy once you get into the details. And c'mon; who doesn't enjoy having a guy like that in their corner?
6. Bright future? Yeah, we've got that too.
The Jackets have been among the youngest team in the League for several years running, and have arguably the youngest core in the League. No single-standout forward names (unless you count Dubois), but the team is top-to-bottom well stocked, the crease has spectacularity potential, and the blueline is already badass. And these guys are all in their low-to-mid 20s. It'll be worth sticking around.
7. The Drunken Master Of GMing runs the show here.
If you're the type who enjoys rollercoasters, following Jarmo Kekalainen's moves are guaranteed to induce a similar effect. He's about as predictable as a butterfly in a hurricane, and yet he still keeps the team competitive and doing well. Doug MacLean kept claiming that his moves were impressive and attention-grabbing; Kekalainen actually does it, and the team keeps coming out the better for it. It's wild.
8. You get respected, rather than hated.
Turning heel full-time sounds fun in theory, but in practice it's emotionally exhausting. Instead, the most common comment you'll see about the Jackets reflects a dawning sense of respect. We haven't been around griping for decades and making nuisances of ourselves enough to set folks off, so when people do take notice of us, it's when they're up against the team on the ice... and they're obliged to notice that, hey, yeah, this is a respectable opponent. It's a nice feeling.
9. When we do lose, it's usually a credit to our opponents rather than a knock on our team.
For the last four years running, the Eastern Conference winner has had to contend with us on the way to the Cup finals. Tampa Bay might not have gone all the way if it weren't for having to face us as their boogeyman. We're in the toughest division in hockey and we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those teams; we're not a passenger. And this team never quits; if we are to go down, we go down hard. That's something to be proud of - and worth respecting, since nowadays it's harder to win a division title than it is to win an O6-era Stanley Cup.
10. I did mention the cannon, right?
Point and laugh at the fans who flinch when it's fired. Smile smugly at the media personalities who complain, because they're just jealous. This could be you.
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My wife is actually (still) a Leaf’s fan, and often cooks stews in her Leaf’s crockpot.
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