HFBoards - Germany http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/ en Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:05:50 GMT vBulletin 60 http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/images/misc/rss.jpg HFBoards - Germany http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/ The sad state of German hockey http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showthread.php?t=1445983&goto=newpost Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:21:29 GMT ---Quote (Originally by Chapin Landvogt)--- Spent some time in Russia this year and man, there are some folks involved with the KHL that truly want to see it expand as far as possible. Lots of talk about having teams in...
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Originally Posted by Chapin Landvogt (Post 67510359)
Spent some time in Russia this year and man, there are some folks involved with the KHL that truly want to see it expand as far as possible. Lots of talk about having teams in towns like London and Paris, much less Oslo, Berlin, Copenhagen, and Vienna. They continue to point to the Rigas, Minsks and Bratislavas of the world, stating that these countries could find ways to get a lot of their own national team players together at one site to compete in Europe's best league.

They honestly don't see why these cities would have anything against that.
Germany is a sure goal for the KHL because of its great market and population. Talks about fans accaption and rivalries come up in every place where the league expands, but Lev Prague has showed larger attandance than any team in Extraliga, while attendance of Sparta and Slavia has grown as well, proving that it's not a problem. I agree that the majority are spectators, not real fans of Lev, but it's a matter of time for new team to gain fans, whereever it is. Team in Germany can do the same way: to have a new team in the KHL and a partner/affiliated team in DEL, so people will be able to choose.
As for German side, having the KHL team can be good for NT to compete on a better level and a team will draw more interest in hockey in general, but it wouldn't solve other problems really, it's a job of a hockey federation.
10k seats arenas that meet the regulations of the KHL team are located Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Mannheim, Munich, Stuttgart, Halle (okay for hockey?) and Dortmund (?). Only 1 team from Germany can join now, because the league cannot take more than 32 teams.

PS The rumors about London and Paris are quite old and there is nothing official about these cities. Actually, there were more rumors about Stavanger (Norway's oil capital), Hannover and even Asia Division. Indeed, as you mentioned, KHL planned to expand to "exotic" hockey places: Milan and Gdansk to build base teams for NTs and will have team in Zagreb next season, but cases of Germany and Denmark, for example, are not that different. ]]> Germany Sucrologist http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showthread.php?t=1445983 German Players in North America - 2013/14 http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showthread.php?t=1444243&goto=newpost Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:05:11 GMT
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Originally Posted by Joey Banana (Post 67398497)
Alex Sulzer isn't signed for next year with the Sabres (yet).

But i'm pretty optimistic he'll get an extension, especially because the Sabres are probably going to be very active this off-season and could possibly trade away 2-3 guys of their defensive core.
I know, but i was kind of lazy and am hoping he gets to stay there, that's why I just kept the Sabres as his team until it is final where he is going to play. ;)

But thanks for the response, it is good to know, that people will point out any mistakes I make in this thread. ]]> Germany Maverick41 http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showthread.php?t=1444243