***OFFICIAL*** NHL thread *confirmed*

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: SampSon

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: SampSon
Well another ****** season down the ****** tubes. Buffalo will never ever win a cup in my lifetime.

Yay, carolina in the cup finals, too bad they cant even fill up the arena.

What I hate the worst about losing is when people say "oh at least they played hard and played a great game!".
Yea, so ****** what, they lost. There is no merit to losing, no matter how well you played. Now they can play hard, on the golf course.

I totally love hockey, but I won't be watching this series.

They can't fill up the arena? Last time I checked, it is being sold out, and more.

Mabey the last two games. Though the rest of the series they had hundreds if not reaching thousands of open tickets all the way to game time.
In their series before that you could see rows of empty seats.

Hell, my friend went down there for a game, walked up to the counter an hour before game time and bought 100 level seats.

Carolina doesn't give a sh!t about hockey. In the later stages of the game the corporate customers buy up tickets and give them out and then many fans jump on the bandwagon.
Carolina is anything but a sellout crowd.

Wow, what a pusswhack. Sorry you got bent out of shape when your team lost and now you'll go cry to your momma, pout and not watch the series. And resorting to an ad hominem attack on Carolina fans - woooo, you got us there, sharp guy!


As a season ticket holder, I attended what games I could and sold the others to friends. There are not that many sellout regular season games in the NHL. Although searching on the net, I could be wrong as I cannot find average attendance figures for the NHL.

I am excited to have my team in the finals. I look forward to having Lord Stanley's Cup in my backyard this summer. Hmmm...now will I use it to hold the BBQ or the potato salad at the 4th of July picnic?
:laugh:

 

[Tommouse]

Ugh, Buffalo is gone too. The two teams I wanted to win ... gone. Guess I'm cheering for Oil, 8th seed winning the cup, how often has that happened? Not to mention I don't really care for the Canes.

To those keeping track: Ducks sent Penner, Getzlaf, and Perry back to my team for their game 7 and they lost in OT. So it has been a very depressing hockey week for me

 

[JohnAn2112]

Ugh can't believe Buffalo lost. I would have loved to see Buffalo vs Edmonton in the finals. It would have been a much better series than Carolina vs Edmonton. I hate that stupid rule about the puck over the glass. I've hated it all season. I can't believe something like that cost the Sabres the series.

Oh well. Let's go Edmonton. Keep the cup out of the south!

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112
Ugh can't believe Buffalo lost. I would have loved to see Buffalo vs Edmonton in the finals. It would have been a much better series than Carolina vs Edmonton. I hate that stupid rule about the puck over the glass. I've hated it all season. I can't believe something like that cost the Sabres the series.

Oh well. Let's go Edmonton. Keep the cup out of the south!

Ya, that Rule has got to go. If pucks going out of play slows down the game, raise the glass, fricking morons.

What would be really cool is a dome like the arcade game!

 

[SampSon]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth

Originally posted by: SampSon

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: SampSon
Well another ****** season down the ****** tubes. Buffalo will never ever win a cup in my lifetime.

Yay, carolina in the cup finals, too bad they cant even fill up the arena.

What I hate the worst about losing is when people say "oh at least they played hard and played a great game!".
Yea, so ****** what, they lost. There is no merit to losing, no matter how well you played. Now they can play hard, on the golf course.

I totally love hockey, but I won't be watching this series.

They can't fill up the arena? Last time I checked, it is being sold out, and more.

Mabey the last two games. Though the rest of the series they had hundreds if not reaching thousands of open tickets all the way to game time.
In their series before that you could see rows of empty seats.

Hell, my friend went down there for a game, walked up to the counter an hour before game time and bought 100 level seats.

Carolina doesn't give a sh!t about hockey. In the later stages of the game the corporate customers buy up tickets and give them out and then many fans jump on the bandwagon.
Carolina is anything but a sellout crowd.

Wow, what a pusswhack. Sorry you got bent out of shape when your team lost and now you'll go cry to your momma, pout and not watch the series. And resorting to an ad hominem attack on Carolina fans - woooo, you got us there, sharp guy!


As a season ticket holder, I attended what games I could and sold the others to friends. There are not that many sellout regular season games in the NHL. Although searching on the net, I could be wrong as I cannot find average attendance figures for the NHL.

I am excited to have my team in the finals. I look forward to having Lord Stanley's Cup in my backyard this summer. Hmmm...now will I use it to hold the BBQ or the potato salad at the 4th of July picnic?
:laugh:

You should go look up "ad hominem" and only use it when you understand it. Though I don't expect that much from a southerner.

Carolina average attendance.
Buffalo average attendance.

Sabres game by game attendance 2006.
Carolina game by game attendance 2006.

Carolina isn't a hockey town, Buffalo is. Generally no one in NC cares about Hockey, up in Buffalo everyone does. Sabres sold out a minimum of 50% of their games and the rest being at nearly 80-90% capacity.

They had a whole bunch of polls this year asking people if they were rooting for the Hurricanes, something like 75% of them didn't know or didn't care. Back when the team started in Carolina ESPN was mocking them out for low attendance, calling it "green acres". Sports illustrated ran an article about them as well. Hell, carolina even closed off the top tier of seats in the arena to make it a max capacity of 12,000 poeple and they still couldn't even fill 75% of the seats. Then they ran thoes 2 for 1 deals, so tickets sold but seats didn't fill.

I don't mean to get down on the team, which is definitely good, but the NHL is like some good ole boys club concentrated in the north. That's where we like to keep it!

I'm ok that they lost. No one expected them to get near as far as they did with that team. The sabres are a great team now, and will only get better with age. So the next few seasons should be fun. Would have liked a few more games, but I'm not getting that.

I will of course watch the finals, I'm a hockey addict! I would just like to have seen an old schoolish matchup for the finals.

 

[sandorski]

With them going to the Finals, Carolina(not sure what city the team is in) might turn to more of a Hockey town. Hockey towns are not built overnight.

 

[VWhed]

Originally posted by: Tommouse
Ugh, Buffalo is gone too. The two teams I wanted to win ... gone. Guess I'm cheering for Oil, 8th seed winning the cup, how often has that happened? Not to mention I don't really care for the Canes.

To those keeping track: Ducks sent Penner, Getzlaf, and Perry back to my team for their game 7 and they lost in OT. So it has been a very depressing hockey week for me

Did you go to game 7 in Hershey? What a game!!! As a Bears fan, let me congratulate your Pirates for one Hell of a series. That was the best series I was ever a part of. I would even feel the same way if the Bears would have lost (well, maybe just a little depressed.) The only beef I have with Portland was the fact that Dineen couldn't even hang around to shake hands with our coach.... We def. have our work cut out for us with the Admirals starting tonight

 

[JohnAn2112]

Originally posted by: sandorski
With them going to the Finals, Carolina(not sure what city the team is in) might turn to more of a Hockey town. Hockey towns are not built overnight.

The Hurricanes made the finals in the 01-02 season and it didn't help turn that city into a hockey city then, so I doubt they will become one now, though it would be nice to see more hockey fans in any city that has a team. More fans the better I say.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112

Originally posted by: sandorski
With them going to the Finals, Carolina(not sure what city the team is in) might turn to more of a Hockey town. Hockey towns are not built overnight.

The Hurricanes made the finals in the 01-02 season and it didn't help turn that city into a hockey city then, so I doubt they will become one now, though it would be nice to see more hockey fans in any city that has a team. More fans the better I say.

I think you just have to build up to it. In Canada and Northern US states Winter, Ice, Skating and Hockey are just part of growing up. In the South Ice rarely forms and certainly not enough to Skate(maybe on some rare occassion), so Skating/Hockey has no familiarity with it. In time, especially if kids play in Leagues or more locals take up skating, the fanbase will grow.

 

[Aquaman]

It starts tonight

Edmonton in 5

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[sandorski]

woot Go Oilers Go!

 

[JohnAn2112]

Let's go Oilers!

 

[meltdown75]

GOOOOOOOO OOOOIIIIIIIILLLLLLLEEEEEEERRRRRSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sandorski]

woot pisani

 

[sandorski]

woohoo Pronger PSG!

 

[sandorski]

booyah Morroeu(sp)

 

[sandorski]

Wow, last 3 minutes of the second Carolina was on fire. Until they got the PP and seemed to fall apart. 3-1 Oilers after 2...woohooo!

 

[sandorski]

3-3

 

[sandorski]

sweet Hemsky 4-4

 

[sandorski]

FFS 5-4 loss

 

[Ricemarine]

DAMN IT...

Fvking backup goalie made a bad play...

Cause friggin defender knocked out roloson...

Where's miller...

 

[sandorski]

Good game overall, hopefully Rollie will be good for rest of series.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112

Originally posted by: sandorski
With them going to the Finals, Carolina(not sure what city the team is in) might turn to more of a Hockey town. Hockey towns are not built overnight.

The Hurricanes made the finals in the 01-02 season and it didn't help turn that city into a hockey city then, so I doubt they will become one now, though it would be nice to see more hockey fans in any city that has a team. More fans the better I say.

I think you just have to build up to it. In Canada and Northern US states Winter, Ice, Skating and Hockey are just part of growing up. In the South Ice rarely forms and certainly not enough to Skate(maybe on some rare occassion), so Skating/Hockey has no familiarity with it. In time, especially if kids play in Leagues or more locals take up skating, the fanbase will grow.

Aye. We also don't have enough rinks IMO. A big one is being built not far from my house, which is nice.

GO 'CANES!

FVCK YEAH!

 

[kyparrish]

Wow, just watched this game, really glad saxophonoia and FicVirth got to drive to Raleigh and see it in person!

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine
DAMN IT...

Fvking backup goalie made a bad play...

Cause friggin defender knocked out roloson...

Where's miller...

That defender made a bad play as well. He's the one who deflected it out front.