NHL will be back for 2005-06 season!!! :)

[yoda313]

Hello,

Well it looks like there will be no NHL season this winter!

Time to look up your local college or minor league hockey team if you want to watch hockey this winter! (in North America that is, not sure what season it will be will where you come from! ).

Kevin

[shoozleboy]

All will be well in Hershey, PA..... home of the oldest AHL franchise - The Hershey Bears.

And I'll be sitting several rows behind the bench to watch all the action!

[yoda313]

Hello,

Maybe I'll go to a Plymouth Whalers (OHL) game this year. The Compuware Arena is only a couple miles away! .

Kevin

[yoda313]

Hello,

The Commissioner Gary Bettman is supposed to have a press conference at 2:30pm est time. It's supposed to be the ok for the lockout.

Kevin

[yoda313]

Hello,

IT'S OFFICIAL! No HOCKEY!

http://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/3733163/detail.html

Kevin

[bazooka]

That sux.

No stars.

[Capmaster]

We have the New Mexico Scorpions. We're not big enough for an NHL team. Doesn't matter - I've never been to a hockey game in my life, although I followed the Blackhawks faithfully for years.

[yoda313]

Hello,

CAP - How close are you to Phoenix? I thought you'd be rooting for the Coyotes????

Kevin

[Capmaster]

Hello,

CAP - How close are you to Phoenix? I thought you'd be rooting for the Coyotes????

Kevin

We're about 450 miles from Phoenix. It's almost exactly the same distance to Denver from here

I don't know who the Coyotes are. Indo might

[yoda313]

Hello,

Cap - ohh I guess that would put them off your radar. Pretty big those desert states are!

Kevin

[Capmaster]

Hello,

Cap - ohh I guess that would put them off your radar. Pretty big those desert states are!

Kevin

Yeah, New Mexico itself is the fifth largest state after Alaska, Texas, Calif. and Montana.

Arizona is sixth.

Interesting size comparison:

United Kingdom (incl. islands): 244,000 sq. km

New Mexico: 313,000 sq. km

[yoda313]

Hello,

Cap - just another reason for the brits to feal jealous!

Kevin

[Capmaster]

Hello,

Cap - just another reason for the brits to feal jealous!

Kevin

I wouldn't go down that garden path, my friend. Several "English" chaps here have yellow and red buttons too

[yoda313]

Hello,

Cap - G** SAVE THE QUEEN! (edited out religious reference! ) There that should mend the rift.

Kevin

[Capmaster]

Hello,

Cap - G** SAVE THE QUEEN! (edited out religious reference! ) There that should mend the rift.

Kevin

Verrry diplomatic

Now, in honor of the queen, let's all cover our hearts and sing God Save The Queen:

My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountainside,
Let freedom ring!.

..............


Oops. That's the same song, but different lyrics

[yoda313]

Hello,

in honor of the queen

For the remainder of this thread I I will write honour in honour of our friends across the pond! .

Kevin

[Reaper88]

World cup is now done, no nhl in the near future. Well this sucks. For those of us lucky enough to have a team near us there is the WHA.



http://www.worldhockeyassociation.net/

[Capmaster]

Hello,

in honor of the queen

For the remainder of this thread I I will write honour in honour of our friends across the pond! .

Kevin

Quite proper, pip pip.

As I sit here typing on my aluminium laptop (actually magnesium), pondering my country's defence, watching the ball game on my colour telly. Maybe ring up a few chaps and have them on. Tossers, the lot of them.

Then I'll go to the loo and take a piss (the room illuminated by my wolfram incandescent light bulbs), wash my hands, then prepare for high tea. Honey, be a dear and get the scones and watercress please? Jolly good.

Tomorrow I plan to throw a few things in the boot, check under the bonnet, tap the wing, go fill it with petrol and off to work I go, driving on the left side of the road, sitting on the bleedin right side of my auto. Nothing wrong with that, wot?

Until I get hit head-on by a Walmart tractor trailer going 85 MPH down westbound Interstate 40

Toodles

[indolikaa]

It's GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! You bloody American wanker!




The Phoenix Coyotes. They've got a solid following downhere. Just got themselves a new arena in Glendale.

Piss off to the NHL! They don't even have a major network television contract, yet they want to be payed like baseball players. What a bunch of...

[Reaper88]

Piss off to the NHL! They don't even have a major network television contract, yet they want to be payed like baseball players. What a bunch of...

Actully they singed a contract with NBC for this season. Well if there is a season that is.

[Capmaster]

They will find out what a strike will do to their sport, much like major league baseball did in 1994. It almost killed the sport, and baseball has a hell of a lot more viewers and attendance than hockey does.

[Reaper88]

Your right cap, I think a long strike will kill hockey in most of the USA. I dont think that will happen here in detroit but i think it would bounce back in canada also.

[Capmaster]

I can't think of a worse thing to do to already financially shaky teams. And how this will help the players in the long run is beyond me.

If post-strike viewership is down, and it will be, there's less revenue for the league, less for each team, and that means less for salaries.

Good job guys. Take your puck and go home. :P

[indolikaa]

The NHL's average salary has risen from $733,000 at the time of the last lockout to $1,830,126 last season, according to the NHL Players' Association. While NHL revenue rose from $732 million in 1993-94 to $1.996 billion in 2002-3, the league says that player costs have increased from 57% of revenue to 75% over that period, figures the union disputes.

Unlike the other major sports, the NHL's revenue from broadcasting is relatively small, $449 million from national and local contracts and new media in 2002-03, according to the league. The five games of the Stanley Cup finals on ABC averaged just a 2.6 rating last spring and the two on ESPN a 1.2 cable rating, according to Nielsen Media Research. This year's Super Bowl had a 41.3 rating on CBS, while last year's World Series averaged a 12.8 on Fox and this year's NBA finals an 11.5 on ABC.

The Teletubbies got higher daily ratings than the Stanley Cup did!

The NHL is dead and buried if they don't get at least 51% of their games in this season. They've been struggling for years to make a dent into the mainstream market. Baseball survived because its a cultural icon. Hockey isn't, in the United States anyway. And it's the US broadcasting market that drives revenue.

[leebo]

If you want NHL hockey this season please sign my petition:

Dear NHL owners,

We, the fans (forthwith refered to as the sheep), want our hockey, whatever the cost. We're happy to pay $75 per ticket so that you can pay the players (forthwith refered to as the "higher life forms") whatever millions per game they desire.

We are the same people who are willing to pay $14 to see Jackass The Movie, The Real Cancun, and other works of art. We are also the same people who want cheap gas but are not willing to keep our 10 mile per gallon SUV's in the garage.

Please give our gods whatever they want so we can go back to sleep and not have to think.


Signed:

The Money Suppliers

[indolikaa]

$75 per ticket?!!!


There had better be a harem of large-breasted naked women to tend to my needs during intermission for THAT kind of ticket price!

And I don't want just a Wham! Ham! Thank your hand! I want full VoiP (Vixens over indolikaa's Penis) connectivity!

[Reaper88]

The NHL's average salary has risen from $733,000 at the time of the last lockout to $1,830,126 last season, according to the NHL Players' Association. While NHL revenue rose from $732 million in 1993-94 to $1.996 billion in 2002-3, the league says that player costs have increased from 57% of revenue to 75% over that period, figures the union disputes.

Unlike the other major sports, the NHL's revenue from broadcasting is relatively small, $449 million from national and local contracts and new media in 2002-03, according to the league. The five games of the Stanley Cup finals on ABC averaged just a 2.6 rating last spring and the two on ESPN a 1.2 cable rating, according to Nielsen Media Research. This year's Super Bowl had a 41.3 rating on CBS, while last year's World Series averaged a 12.8 on Fox and this year's NBA finals an 11.5 on ABC.

The Teletubbies got higher daily ratings than the Stanley Cup did!

The NHL is dead and buried if they don't get at least 51% of their games in this season. They've been struggling for years to make a dent into the mainstream market. Baseball survived because its a cultural icon. Hockey isn't, in the United States anyway. And it's the US broadcasting market that drives revenue.

I couldn't agree more. I feel the NHL has gotten the shaft for the us networks in promoting the game. ESPN was scheduled to show a record low amount of games this season. They even got rid of NHL2NIGHT. I loved that show.

[Capmaster]

If you want NHL hockey this season please sign my petition:

Dear NHL owners,

We, the fans (forthwith refered to as the sheep), want our hockey, whatever the cost. We're happy to pay $75 per ticket so that you can pay the players (forthwith refered to as the "higher life forms") whatever millions per game they desire.

We are the same people who are willing to pay $14 to see Jackass The Movie, The Real Cancun, and other works of art. We are also the same people who want cheap gas but are not willing to keep our 10 mile per gallon SUV's in the garage.

Please give our gods whatever they want so we can go back to sleep and not have to think.


Signed:

The Money Suppliers

AMEN!!!

[Reaper88]

Whats killing me personaly is that i dont get to play fantasy hockey now.

[Capmaster]

$75 per ticket?!!!


There had better be a harem of large-breasted naked women to tend to my needs during intermission for THAT kind of ticket price!

And I don't want just a Wham! Ham! Thank your hand! I want full VoiP (Vixens over indolikaa's Penis) connectivity!

You're sharp today ...sharp