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  • PTI
    Banned
    • Jan 2011
    • 5316

    6 outdoor games next year

    If you're not a fan of outdoor hockey, then you will not like the NHL's plans for next season. Beginning with the 2013-14 season, the outdoor game concept the League has cashed in on will expand dramatically. During TSN's "Insider … Continue reading →


    Jan. 1, 2014, Winter Classic between the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs at Michigan Stadium. The other five match-ups will be: • Ducks vs. Kings at Dodger Stadium, Jan. 25
    • Devils vs. Rangers at Yankee Stadium, Jan. 26
    • Islanders vs. Rangers at Yankee Stadium, Jan 29
    • Penguins at Blackhawks, Soldier Field, March 1
    • Senators at Canucks, BC Place, March 2

    Ducks and Kings to play Water Polo
  • The King
    Without me it's just Awe so
    • Jun 2004
    • 42380

    #2
    Re: 6 outdoor games next year

    Awful idea.
    I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?"
    "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet.
    You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times."
    It was all
    true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach.
    He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can
    mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.


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    • Crisis
      Registered User
      • Aug 2004
      • 12738

      #3
      Re: 6 outdoor games next year

      Way to kill the novelty off, NHL. Talk about grasping for straws after another lockout.

      This is the most blatant and ill-advised cash grab.
      Last edited by Crisis; 04-17-2013, 01:08 PM.
      Originally posted by LOSman WINS
      Vanek is Austrian not European
      Originally posted by Prov401
      Pacquiao isn't asian. He's from the philippines
      Originally posted by better days
      I will not be surprised if Tebow has more success than Peyton in the NFL.

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      • trapezeus
        Legendary Zoner
        • Oct 2004
        • 19525

        #4
        Re: 6 outdoor games next year

        why is it ill-advised? people will scoop these tickets up. they capitalize on the kings current excellence and hoopla.

        yeah, it kind of kills the novelty, but it also helps spread word of mouth and build good will in CA.

        i would love to know what kind of breakout they have in outdoor refrigeration for the 60 degree weather in LA at that time of the year.

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        • IlluminatusUIUC
          Registered User
          • Sep 2012
          • 8966

          #5
          Re: 6 outdoor games next year

          Two outdoor games in the same stadium within a week? That's the very definition of killing the novelty. At least move the Devils Rags game to the Meadowlands.


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          • SabreEleven
            Registered User
            • Aug 2002
            • 39563

            #6
            Re: 6 outdoor games next year

            Originally posted by IlluminatusUIUC View Post
            Two outdoor games in the same stadium within a week? That's the very definition of killing the novelty. At least move the Devils Rags game to the Meadowlands.
            Can't...Superbowl will be there the following week.

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            • IlluminatusUIUC
              Registered User
              • Sep 2012
              • 8966

              #7
              Re: 6 outdoor games next year

              Originally posted by SabreEleven View Post
              Can't...Superbowl will be there the following week.
              Well obviously you wouldn't do it on the same day as before, move it into February. At least it wouldn't be one after the other.


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              • Crisis
                Registered User
                • Aug 2004
                • 12738

                #8
                Re: 6 outdoor games next year

                Originally posted by trapezeus View Post
                why is it ill-advised? people will scoop these tickets up. they capitalize on the kings current excellence and hoopla.

                yeah, it kind of kills the novelty, but it also helps spread word of mouth and build good will in CA.

                i would love to know what kind of breakout they have in outdoor refrigeration for the 60 degree weather in LA at that time of the year.
                Because the Winter Classic is the one thing that generates interest outside of the hockey community. 6 games a year completely ruins that.
                Originally posted by LOSman WINS
                Vanek is Austrian not European
                Originally posted by Prov401
                Pacquiao isn't asian. He's from the philippines
                Originally posted by better days
                I will not be surprised if Tebow has more success than Peyton in the NFL.

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                • ckg927
                  Not quite Best in the World....
                  • Aug 2012
                  • 21102

                  #9
                  Re: 6 outdoor games next year

                  You will get NO argument from me on this thread.

                  If you're going to do outdoor games, you should have a MAX of 2 per season.
                  John Hemingway(facing certain death): I want to see Buffalo win the Super Bowl.
                  David Coltrane(threatening John): Nobody's going to live that long, pal.


                  -The John Larroquette Show, "A Dark and Stormy Night", 4/12/94

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                  • mightysimi
                    Buckle me in on the highway of sin
                    • Mar 2010
                    • 6344

                    #10
                    Re: 6 outdoor games next year

                    Originally posted by trapezeus View Post
                    why is it ill-advised? people will scoop these tickets up. they capitalize on the kings current excellence and hoopla.

                    yeah, it kind of kills the novelty, but it also helps spread word of mouth and build good will in CA.

                    i would love to know what kind of breakout they have in outdoor refrigeration for the 60 degree weather in LA at that time of the year.
                    If I'm not mistaken, the Kings and the Rangers played an exhibition game on a parking lot in vegas a few years ago so if they could do it then, they can do it now.

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                    • IlluminatusUIUC
                      Registered User
                      • Sep 2012
                      • 8966

                      #11
                      Re: 6 outdoor games next year

                      Originally posted by mightysimi View Post
                      If I'm not mistaken, the Kings and the Rangers played an exhibition game on a parking lot in vegas a few years ago so if they could do it then, they can do it now.
                      An exhibition game is much less of an event and easy to cancel or reschedule if conditions don't cooperate. That same year, the league had to cancel an exhibition in North Carolina because the ice was unsafe.

                      Also amusingly enough, the lights in Vegas attracted a swarm of grasshoppers who kept jumping onto the ice and dying. http://www.reviewjournal.com/ron-kan...-blast-caesars


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                      • mightysimi
                        Buckle me in on the highway of sin
                        • Mar 2010
                        • 6344

                        #12
                        Re: 6 outdoor games next year

                        Originally posted by IlluminatusUIUC View Post
                        An exhibition game is much less of an event and easy to cancel or reschedule if conditions don't cooperate. That same year, the league had to cancel an exhibition in North Carolina because the ice was unsafe.

                        Also amusingly enough, the lights in Vegas attracted a swarm of grasshoppers who kept jumping onto the ice and dying. http://www.reviewjournal.com/ron-kan...-blast-caesars
                        Right but that was in 91. I would hope that the technoligy would improve in 20 years.

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