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Jamwad Hilder posted:Gallant is a good coach, I think. There were a lot of worse picks out there for your first coach, anyway They approached Oates first
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Gallant seems to like grit, but his Panthers teams were very fun to watch. Big + for me.
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Did they not have Barry Melrose's number?
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Barry's got way too easy a gig with ESPN at this point to leave
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He's no Rick Bowness, that's for sure.
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Las Vegas will become the third team to have a spanish language radio broadcast. Chicago and Florida are the other two.
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They've said they're looking into the same Fox Sports West channels that carry Ducks/Kings for their TV broadcasts. That might sound weird, but Vegas is a tiny media market by way of isolation that can't support it's own RSN. Cox locally offers these Los Angeles based RSNs, but also exempts them from their skinny no-sports packages so any residents who don't care can opt to never see games. What Vegas cable doesn't offer, as the asking price is so high that Cox refuses to inflict it upon customers, is SportsNet LA, the LA Dodgers channel. As that channel is about the Dodgers 24/7/365 even during the MLB offseason, one has to wonder if Charter and the Dodgers have considered ceding a few hours here and there to the Knights in order to push Cox LV into picking it up and adding another cable system in a 2M population area to shove dollar bills into their filthy mouths.
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Well, for one thing, it's Sportsnet LA, not Sportsnet LV. The other thing is that it wouldn't necessarily mean that Cox would have to pick up Sportsnet LA. I have Spectrum in Austin, and I haven't been able to watch the Astros since they were in the NL.
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https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/854472502692782082 Mark your calendars for the date we know the roster of the 30th place Vegas Golden Knights (31st are the Avs, obviously).
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Ok, bumping this with a thought. I know there's a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth here because the raiders are shipping over to Vegas too. I'm not worried. Why? Look at Nashville. They have both the Titans and the Predators. Look at how rabid Nashville's fans are. If Nashville of all places can have a fanbase like that with an NFL team in the same city, I don't see why Vegas can't either.
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The Titans have a fanbase that can be measured in the dozens. E: and yeah the NFL/NHL fanbase overlap isn't particularly huge, but the NFL is a juggernaut in every conceivable way now, and it's not hard to see the Vegas Raiders quickly overshadow the Knights. This will obviously also depend on how well the Knights market themselves too.
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The other thing to remember is the seasons don't particularly overlap. I mean yeah, the beginning of hockey is towards the end of the NFL season, but the playoffs are months apart.
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not only do the seasons barely overlap, but NFL games are typically on Sunday afternoons, with maybe one or two games per team on a Monday or Thursday night.
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Titans aren't even the biggest distraction from hockey in town, college football is way bigger.
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I think the next expansion team should be a gypsy team with no home arena that plays 82 road games a year. You could stick all the players nobody likes on there and laugh at them when they go 10-70-2
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Powershift posted:I think the next expansion team should be a gypsy team with no home arena that plays 82 road games a year. You could stick all the players nobody likes on there and laugh at them when they go 10-70-2 The hockey version of the Washington Generals. I'd be all about that
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Powershift posted:I think the next expansion team should be a gypsy team with no home arena that plays 82 road games a year. So kind of like the Panthers? Just kidding, I hear they actually get fans wearing their jerseys at Sunrise now.
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Martytoof posted:So kind of like the Panthers? As someone who lives near that arena, nope.
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Powershift posted:I think the next expansion team should be a gypsy team with no home arena that plays 82 road games a year. You could stick all the players nobody likes on there and laugh at them when they go 10-70-2 Put the arena in a blimp and fly to each city.
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iospace posted:Ok, bumping this with a thought. I'd look at arizona and florida first, imo. vegas has a lot of people that aren't from vegas, just like phoenix/miami. I think the raiders are going to be a red herring for when the knights suck and tickets naturally decline.
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hifi posted:I'd look at arizona and florida first, imo. vegas has a lot of people that aren't from vegas, just like phoenix/miami. I don't know if the tickets are going to decline and the thing is going to be a huge fuckup, but if it does, the Raiders actually will probably play a role because the media here is just fuckin' hyped as hell for the Raiders. There seemed to be very little taxpayer revolt to the politicians making such an expensive pork barrel project without any input from residents or a public referendum. But the alt-weekly was people in silver facepaint on the cover last week, tonight's leading news story was the excitement/disappointment of the Raiders draft pick, and the classic rock and Motown station every few songs has a drop of a voice saying "The Las Vegas Raiders, I like the sound of that!" I think that the hockey team will actually be on the Strip in a casino-owned arena gives it an edge in terms of "casinos buy seats and give them away". I'm sure casinos will buy a bunch of Raiders tickets too, but it'll probably be a harder get. MGM is probably looking at this as an alternative to showroom entertainment because they have drained the Cirque Du Soleil well bone dry with their rapid expansion in the late 2000s. There's a large Kings fanbase visiting as well as significant fans locally for the Hawks, Sharks, and Wings. I doubt Vegas vs Columbus will sell out, but Vegas vs Big_City_Here should do alright. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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It's going to have nothing to do with the Raiders. If they're poo poo forever no one will go, if they can have some success, they'll be fine.
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I've read that Vegas is a city of transients, not unlike LA. Is that true? Because if so, it could help. I remember reading that one of the reasons LA typically gets considered for franchises despite losing teams often (in the NFL, anyways) is they figure with people moving there often for work purposes there'll be enough of any type of fan that just about any type of team can work there. Of course, LA has a ton of population thanks to suburbs (something like 18 million CSA, Vegas has 2 million). I want this team to work out, if just because expansion is always interesting.
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How many cities have the population and fan base to turn vegas games into home games? There's probably a lot of teams that will have fans that will take over when they are contenders, but who's going to send fans regardless of performance (like the Northeast teams in Florida)? I'd guess the 3 Cali teams, Vancouver, and O6 would have enough people to take over year in, year out. Are there enough people in Alberta to invade regularly? Philly?
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Kings, Duck, The  , phoeniahahahahahahahaahhhahahaa
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pseudodragon posted:How many cities have the population and fan base to turn vegas games into home games? There's probably a lot of teams that will have fans that will take over when they are contenders, but who's going to send fans regardless of performance (like the Northeast teams in Florida)? I'd guess the 3 Cali teams, Vancouver, and O6 would have enough people to take over year in, year out. Are there enough people in Alberta to invade regularly? Philly? People form alberta regularly go to vegas for the weekend. Doing it for hockey would be a bonus. It's usually $300-$400 for 3 days hotel and flights. Make it $400-$500 with hockey tickets and the arena will be sold out to flames fans for calgary games, and to oilers fans for oilers games. The oilers sold out their arenas on a 10 year losing streak
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Powershift posted:People form alberta regularly go to vegas for the weekend. Doing it for hockey would be a bonus. It's usually $300-$400 for 3 days hotel and flights. Make it $400-$500 with hockey tickets and the arena will be sold out to flames fans for calgary games, and to oilers fans for oilers games.
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https://twitter.com/CraigCustance/status/859522751861751808 Aww, I was hoping that Vegas would take Chris Pronger.
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Kilza posted:https://twitter.com/CraigCustance/status/859522751861751808 How'd Grabovski get on there?
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He didn't play a game all season with concussion issues, iirc
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Mike_V posted:Stephane Robidas is technically not retired? This is the last season on his contract so I'd imagine he is effective as of the end of the playoffs.
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Please tell me this counts as the expansion draft pick from the Jets.quote:Vegas Golden Knights President Kerry Bubolz announced today, May 3, that the club has hired Gary Lawless as the Vegas Golden Knights Insider. In this role, Lawless will author in-depth breaking news stories, columns, features, event recaps and player/staff profiles on vegasgoldenknights.com and will serve as the team's lead on-camera reporter, filing daily video recaps from Golden Knights practices, games, events and press conferences.
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pseudodragon posted:How many cities have the population and fan base to turn vegas games into home games? There's probably a lot of teams that will have fans that will take over when they are contenders, but who's going to send fans regardless of performance (like the Northeast teams in Florida)? I'd guess the 3 Cali teams, Vancouver, and O6 would have enough people to take over year in, year out. Are there enough people in Alberta to invade regularly? Philly? the rangers for sure. probably montreal and toronto too
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Kilza posted:https://twitter.com/CraigCustance/status/859522751861751808 Ah yes, send Pronger to a city with super bright lights and a poo poo-ton of noise 24/7
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Kilza posted:https://twitter.com/CraigCustance/status/859522751861751808 3 coyotes plus the guy we traded for datsyuk... Really "no hfun league" move completely barring vegas from selecting a guy with one foot over whatever other scraps the coyotes have. grack posted:Ah yes, send Pronger to a city with super bright lights and a poo poo-ton of noise 24/7 Good thing he's done before the coyotes move again
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Duck Rodgers posted:Please tell me this counts as the expansion draft pick from the Jets. Sorry SinBin guy! Maybe next time
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Scaramouche posted:Sorry SinBin guy! Maybe next time I think we're going to see some pretty nasty articles about the CreaTURD coming up in the next few weeks.
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