Withdrawal? Nah, so many other things to do. I like hockey and it will be great when it's back in action. At this point I am not missing it at all.
My only frustration is that we aren't seeing JMFJ develop in his new role with this team to see what we really have. I would like to see what the coaching staff does this year along with the new leadership group.
So yeah, I am frustrated but it's more from not seeing what the reshape did as opposed to missing hockey. I'm sure I'll feel it a bit more if December rolls around as we're still not playing. I've all but given up on the All-Star game. That will be a quick causality when NHL games start to disappear off the schedule. I figured we would be here, so getting tickets to the game was never a serious consideration. Didn't want to screw with the refund.
I'll be ok until November, baseball/ncaa and pro football are keeping my free time tied up. Once the World Series ends, I'll start to miss the NHL. Once the NCAA bowl games end, I'll be in full on withdrawl.
Does anyone have an interest in doing an informal "restaurant of the week" type of arrangement if regular-season games start getting scrubbed? Rather than avoiding the Arena District during the lockout, it would be a way to put some cash back into the local restaurants who will be hurting.
This sounds highly awesome to me.
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Withdrawal? Nah, so many other things to do. I like hockey and it will be great when it's back in action. At this point I am not missing it at all.
My only frustration is that we aren't seeing JMFJ develop in his new role with this team to see what we really have. I would like to see what the coaching staff does this year along with the new leadership group.
So yeah, I am frustrated but it's more from not seeing what the reshape did as opposed to missing hockey. I'm sure I'll feel it a bit more if December rolls around as we're still not playing.
This mirrors my feelings on the situation pretty well. I wanna see the experimental results, damnit!
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Devellano is quite the idiot. Because we all know the NHL needs a collusion lawsuit in addition to a lockout.
I don't see the grounds for collusion like many are saying. When he talks about an "unwritten rule", I'm looking at it as the "sign a guy to a massively front-loaded offer sheet", not "tender an offer sheet at all".
There was a huge firestorm back in the 1990s because large-market teams were using the front-loading as a weapon against small-market teams. NY Rangers targeted Joe Sakic ($21 million over three years, with $17 million up front), Toronto with Mattias Ohlund (matched), Chicago with Keith Tkachuk (matched), and Philly with Chris Gratton (not matched; Tampa traded compensatory picks back to Philly for Renberg and Dykhuis).
That's why so many were quietly pleased with Carolina doing it to Sergei Fedorov, where there was a $26 million bonus due only if the team made the conference finals. Carolina wasn't going to do it, but obviously Detroit was. It's the first and last example of a true "poison pill" provision I can remember, but the joy of seeing a small-market team really stick it to a large-market one was fun.
I do remember Craig Simpson signing an offer sheet that was both front-loaded and ruled by the league to be a complete sham, and thus was invalidated.
I will be significantly angrier if, for some twist of fate or other reason, Vinny Prospal doesn't play another real life game in a CBJ uniform.
What would tick me off even more is if the entire season is lost and Mason is no longer under contract - and they re-sign him. Unlikely, I know, but somewhere I can just hear Howson uttering the words, "we still have faith that he can get it back." *shudder*
What would tick me off even more is if the entire season is lost and Mason is no longer under contract - and they re-sign him. Unlikely, I know, but somewhere I can just hear Howson uttering the words, "we still have faith that he can get it back." *shudder*
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Why the hell did we re-sign Mason?
I think the thing that pi**es me off more than anything is the feeling of being completely impotent in this situation. The players are holding their line, and are probably the greatest athletes in any sport for making themselves available to the regular fan. But they can go play in Europe/Russia and still make good coin.
As has been observed, the owners aren't terribly concerned because the die-hard fans have shown that they will return with no hard feelings whenever the millionaires and the billionaires get around to agreeing on how to divide up our money.
Not that I am bitter or anything, but I was racking my brain last week, trying to figure out a way to send them a message. So here is my idea.
For each cancelled game, I am going to send CBJ an email, telling them exactly what I did that night, instead of coming to NWA and cheering my team. I'll also drop exactly how much that activity cost me, and how much of my money they would have gotten if I had gone to the game. I may also say how much fun I had, and other benefits I am deriving away from the rink (building relationships, starting a new hobby, meeting new friends, recovering from addiction to $9 beer, enjoying steak dinners for the price I would have paid for hotdogs, etc.)
The purpose? Maybe no one will notice, but if enough people do it, they will get the idea that they can't take fans for granted.
Especially fans that have suffered through 10 years of the absolute worst hockey in the league.
And we may find a better return for our entertainment dollars.
I think the thing that pi**es me off more than anything is the feeling of being completely impotent in this situation. The players are holding their line, and are probably the greatest athletes in any sport for making themselves available to the regular fan. But they can go play in Europe/Russia and still make good coin.
As has been observed, the owners aren't terribly concerned because the die-hard fans have shown that they will return with no hard feelings whenever the millionaires and the billionaires get around to agreeing on how to divide up our money.
Not that I am bitter or anything, but I was racking my brain last week, trying to figure out a way to send them a message. So here is my idea.
For each cancelled game, I am going to send CBJ an email, telling them exactly what I did that night, instead of coming to NWA and cheering my team. I'll also drop exactly how much that activity cost me, and how much of my money they would have gotten if I had gone to the game. I may also say how much fun I had, and other benefits I am deriving away from the rink (building relationships, starting a new hobby, meeting new friends, recovering from addiction to $9 beer, enjoying steak dinners for the price I would have paid for hotdogs, etc.)
The purpose? Maybe no one will notice, but if enough people do it, they will get the idea that they can't take fans for granted.
Especially fans that have suffered through 10 years of the absolute worst hockey in the league.
And we may find a better return for our entertainment dollars.
Ah yes, the Shawshank Redemption method of contacting them until you get the response you want. What, per se, is the response that you're looking for? The problem is, they know exactly what is at stake, and exactly who they are alienating. Did it effect the league last time around? No ... the league brought in more money this year than it ever had, as did the teams, and the average player salary went up.
So, who then do we have to blame other than ourselves? This is why I think the best method of dealing with the situation is to sit quietly and deal with it. Then, when the league starts up - be it 20 games late, a whole season missed, etc .... those of us die hard fans who dealt with the last lockout and came back to support them give them the silent treatment for exactly twice as long. If it's 20 games, don't go to 20 more. If it's 82 games, cancel your package for next year and don't buy any merchandise. Hitting them in the wallet is where it's going to hurt. Otherwise, we're all just complainers who want our hockey back, and they know we'll be back in the end.
Trust me, you won't get the answer you're looking for. They simply don't care about our interests.
Ah yes, the Shawshank Redemption method of contacting them until you get the response you want. What, per se, is the response that you're looking for? The problem is, they know exactly what is at stake, and exactly who they are alienating. Did it effect the league last time around? No ... the league brought in more money this year than it ever had, as did the teams, and the average player salary went up.
So, who then do we have to blame other than ourselves? This is why I think the best method of dealing with the situation is to sit quietly and deal with it. Then, when the league starts up - be it 20 games late, a whole season missed, etc .... those of us die hard fans who dealt with the last lockout and came back to support them give them the silent treatment for exactly twice as long. If it's 20 games, don't go to 20 more. If it's 82 games, cancel your package for next year and don't buy any merchandise. Hitting them in the wallet is where it's going to hurt. Otherwise, we're all just complainers who want our hockey back, and they know we'll be back in the end.
Trust me, you won't get the answer you're looking for. They simply don't care about our interests.
I agree 100%. Until they see a massive drop in attendance and TV dollars (which will only happen when we don't watch) the owners will not be the least bit concerned.
The thing that pisses me off the most is that puckrakers now costs money for "premium access" after 10 free viewings per month. It's a blog for ****s sake.
The thing that pisses me off the most is that puckrakers now costs money for "premium access" after 10 free viewings per month. It's a blog for ****s sake.
How will you get by without reading Kevin Dineen's name every day?
Just use incognito mode of chrome, or whatever the equivalent mode is in Firefox. No cookies, no limit.
I guess the Dispatch assumes that their readers are as stupid as their writers.
Pretty dead around here. I really think there is more apathy this time around compared to 2004. While I have no doubt that fans will eventually come back, the NHL and the players are really shooting themselves in the foot after all the progress over the last few years. Fan apathy is much worse than fan anger.
While it is bad form to quote oneself, my quote below was in this thread 2 weeks ago.
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Putting that aside, what is at stake here for Franklin County now that they own Nationwide? They lose alot of dates on the calendar. How much are the taxpayers on the hook for, or was there some sort of provision in the contract that covered this possibility?
Seems like this would be a good article for the Dispatch, unless the answer has already been well-documented. Nothing like the thought of taxpayers being gouged to crank up some heat on McConnell and the players.
I'd like to point out the Dispatch did address my question here, so I will give them props for tackling the question:
The bottom line of the article is that taxpayers are not on the hook for additional money due to the lockout. I don't really understand how that is possible as I would presume that the operating costs of keeping Nationwide Arena going outweigh the revenue when there are fewer dates booked at the arena. The way the article is worded, it still suggests that they are banking on money from the casino to cover these costs:
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[Riggs] said the money to purchase and operate the arena comes from two sources: a portion of the tax revenue Columbus and Franklin County receive from the state’s four new casinos, and the non-hockey events Riggs helps book at the arena.
The bottom line of the article is that taxpayers are not on the hook for additional money due to the lockout. I don't really understand how that is possible as I would presume that the operating costs of keeping Nationwide Arena going outweigh the revenue when there are fewer dates booked at the arena. The way the article is worded, it still suggests that they are banking on money from the casino to cover these costs:
The thing that pisses me off the most is that puckrakers now costs money for "premium access" after 10 free viewings per month. It's a blog for ****s sake.
Um. What?
Please tell me this is some kind of joke. I've never seen anything of the sort.
Pretty dead around here. I really think there is more apathy this time around compared to 2004.
You couldn't be more right. After last season's epic failure of a team, and the owner's lack of remedying the problem by retaining upper management, I for one am totally fine with no hockey. It will allow me to ignore it without it actually taking place.
Seriously, I have been at my lowest point as a hockey fan for so long that this is a breath of fresh air. I mean, we can't give up a goal in the first 75 seconds of a game we don't play, right?
The thing that pisses me off the most is that puckrakers now costs money for "premium access" after 10 free viewings per month. It's a blog for ****s sake.
I'm seeing this too... $20 a month to read Dispatch coverage on Blue Jackets ...anyone actually doing this?
The thing that pisses me off the most is that puckrakers now costs money for "premium access" after 10 free viewings per month. It's a blog for ****s sake.
The thing that pisses me off the most is that puckrakers now costs money for "premium access" after 10 free viewings per month. It's a blog for ****s sake.
The internet people at the Dispatch are not rocket scientists. If you go into your browser and delete your cookies for the dispatch, you can read another 10 "premium" articles.
Got an email last night about my new ticket rep. Apparently the last one, who had been there three years (a record?) left for greener pastures. Too bad, she did a great job. No doubt a casualty of the lockout.
Got an email last night about my new ticket rep. Apparently the last one, who had been there three years (a record?) left for greener pastures. Too bad, she did a great job. No doubt a casualty of the lockout.
We must of had the same ticket rep. I will agree that she did a great job and the new rep has some pretty big shoes to fill.
