Hockey Randomness

Postby **shoeshine boy** » Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:53 am

what a snowflake!

Postby **Lemon Berry Lobster** » Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:41 pm

Postby **dodint** » Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:47 pm

Good.

Postby **JC2** » Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:48 pm

How much stumbling was in his announcement?

Postby **nocera** » Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:59 pm

Just a little bit of bad hockey karma. Or are we supposed to act like he wasn’t a jackass now that he has to retire early?

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:29 pm

Well, he was a massive homer. But unless something has changed, they couldn't determine the cause of his speech issues...which is scary. Hope he gets better.

Postby **meow** » Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:30 pm

this will give him more free time to go **** himself

Postby **dodint** » Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:36 pm

Well, he was a massive homer. But unless something has changed, they couldn't determine the cause of his speech issues...which is scary. Hope he gets better.

I wonder what it could be.

*glug* *glug* *glug*

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:42 pm

He looks like the kind of person who sucks at Halo and calls everyone else F’s 3 seconds before the lobby ends.

Postby **nocera** » Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:06 pm

This just seems mean. Especially coming from the "#SaveTheCrew" city.

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:21 am

Hey Columbus, 136 days till college football starts.

Postby **Gaucho** » Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:15 pm

Flower will be back for one more season.

Postby **nocera** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:48 am

Hell of an organization you had there, Meruelo.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:13 am

What's the backstory on that? He started working for another team, and Yotes management got pissy?

Postby **MR25** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:33 am

I think it was from their old arena. I guess when they got the boot they threw away everything and weren't allowed to hang it up in Mullet/didn't bother asking.

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:34 pm

Garbage organization, and that comes from a Commanders fan. I'm an expert.

Postby **willeyeam** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:44 pm

This made me a little sad

Postby **dodint** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:45 pm

Boohoo.

Coyotes are vermin.

Postby **Pavel Bure** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:14 pm

It always sucks to see a team move. Let’s not act like hockey ever “worked” in Arizona though.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:24 pm

Let's not act like it was ever given a chance for success...

Pittsburgh ended up becoming a hockey town in some respects...its youth programs are producing legit talents now...but it also fell into bankruptcy in the same decade where it won 2 Cups and was actively making the playoffs.

Arizona got little in the way of superstar talent, they got put into a basketball arena, then got kicked around to every town that wasn't where the fanbase lived, poor owners, poor managers, tons of turnover...their regional sports network went out bankrupt...etc. etc.

A 52 minute flight away in Vegas, hockey is booming...they're also in the middle of a desert. They also don't have a hockey background.

This is why judging things purely by result isn't enough most of the time...the process is important. Arizona/Phoenix had a lousy process, the NHL had a lousy process that dragged on this pain for too long perhaps too...I don't think they necessarily got a fair shake, I don't think they generally expanded their platform for luck any either...but it's too hasty to say that "Arizona can't do [this]" - there will be a team back in Phoenix in the next 10 years.

Postby **nocera** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:26 pm

It always sucks to see a team move. Let’s not act like hockey ever “worked” in Arizona though.

It worked as far as growing the game there and getting a new market to buy in on hockey. It did not work because the owner is (was) a doofus and horrible businessman who didn't pay his rent so nobody wanted his team to play in their city. The NHL is leaving a big market (nearly 5 million people) for a much smaller market in Sal Tlay Ka Siti (1.3 million). On the plus side, they won't play in a college arena.

Postby **Pavel Bure** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:28 pm

I didn’t say the “it didn’t work in the desert” line because that wasn’t the truth. It didn’t work in large part because it was never a priority for the NHL or for Arizona.

Postby **nocera** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:30 pm

I hope Phoenix gets the Coyotes back at some point but I really hope the league doesn't give Meruelo the team if he gets that arena built. Something something definition of insanity.

Postby **willeyeam** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:17 pm

I hope Phoenix gets the Coyotes back at some point but I really hope the league doesn't give Meruelo the team if he gets that arena built. Something something definition of insanity.

this is as good of a place as any to point out that the definition of insanity is not actually doing the same thing over and over agan and expecting different results

https://www.merriam-webster.com/diction ... ty%3A%20as

Postby **nocera** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:27 pm

Next you're going to tell me that people who can't dance don't actually have two left feet.