Originally posted by dnewma04:
If all you canadian fans are such die hard fans, what happened to Jets and the Nordiques? Can't make money there, so they move them to states where the bandwagon fans keep them afloat.




Hmmmmm
This statement man you have no idea how wrong that is.....

The teams weren't moved because of lack of fan support. They moved because other US city's offered a more lucrative deal than the city's they came from.
The real problem is the value of the US$ vs CDN$. That's the real reason we lose Canadian teams.
We have to pay all our players in US$ and this adds a more challenging problem on how to make up the difference through revenues. If the Jets stayed in Winnipeg your damn skippy they would've been better off...

Pittisburgh, Phoniex, Carolina etc can't get fans into the arena, but we had no problem filling them.

Minnesota didn't leave for Dallas because of lack of fan support they left cause the owner was greedy!

Originally posted by dnewma04:

I can't believe you even compared Hockey to football...there is no comparison. Hockey is a like JV sport compared to a professional sport in football. Hockey is a great number 6 sport behind the NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA Football and Basketball.




I compared the Superbowl only as an example. If the Superbowl gets those type of ratings no matter who's playing then any sport should be able to do the same.
It's upto the NHL to market the game to bring it up to that level.

I agree that large market teams would be what the NHL/fans would want in the finals, but with so many teams in the league it won't happen.
Having tons of money (large market) to buy a great team doesn't work.
The coach and player chemistry does, so it's unpredictable as to who will win to be there.

If you always want the large market teams to be in the stanley cup final then get it back to the original 6 or 8.


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