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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #30 on: May 21, 2011, 05:23:44 pm »
Quote from: miles on May 21, 2011, 04:12:06 pm
as my friend suggested, chant "Gay-Rod" over and over

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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #31 on: May 21, 2011, 06:31:43 pm »
Yeah, we're not going to chant that. Or throw anything. But we will boo him.
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #32 on: May 22, 2011, 05:56:27 pm »
Quote from: miles on May 21, 2011, 06:31:43 pm
Yeah, we're not going to chant that. Or throw anything. But we will boo him.

I'm not really a baseball guy (judging from fake baseball this year, I'm so not a baseball guy) but he is a guy I would boo. I feel about A-Rod the way I feel about Kobe. I don't really follow the sport, but the loathsomeness transcends it.
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #33 on: May 28, 2011, 04:14:17 am »
Bruins vs. Canucks. I guess that'll be cool.
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #34 on: May 29, 2011, 11:53:24 pm »
Here's an odd little tidbit.  There's a Canadian chain of Pizza restaurants called Boston Pizza.  Boston Pizza has nothing to do with Boston in any way.  In relation to the Boston v Vancouver situation they have "changed" their name to show their allegiance. 
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #35 on: May 30, 2011, 04:03:33 am »
That's pretty fuck*ng awesome.
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #36 on: June 02, 2011, 03:12:21 am »
Raffi Torres (there's a good hockey name) scores with 18.5 seconds left in the third and the Canucks take the first game.

Also, it's not the Coyotes but Winnipeg's going to have a team again. Maybe Atlanta isn't a good place for a hockey team.
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #37 on: June 02, 2011, 05:04:54 am »
Seems like a few years ago there was a lot of talk about how Hockey was losing it's roots because so many teams had up and moved south.  Maybe the migration is headed the other way now.
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« Reply #38 on: June 02, 2011, 09:09:22 am »
A yes, we're getting Atlanta's team.  There was so much talk about this for so long leading up to it and I sort of got sick of the whole situation.  I'm glad to get to finally see some more pro Hockey though.  I haven't seen an actual game since knuckle head days.
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #39 on: June 02, 2011, 02:18:00 pm »
enjoy it, smells, nobody went to games here
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #40 on: June 02, 2011, 10:57:53 pm »
Quote from: Choop on June 02, 2011, 02:18:00 pm
enjoy it, smells, nobody went to games here

Yeah, I'm gonna bet I won't be going to many here either.  At an absolute minimum of $39 a ticket for the nosebleeds, meaning basically $80 + tax, parking and concessions, I won't be going to many games myself either.  I'd be far more likely to spend my duckets on a concert or arts-basted performance. 
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #41 on: June 03, 2011, 01:27:28 am »
Well, it's well-trodden ground and fairly snobby, but I would rather have a hockey team in Winnipeg than in Atlanta.
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #42 on: June 03, 2011, 01:28:36 pm »
Quote from: side_show on June 02, 2011, 10:57:53 pm
Yeah, I'm gonna bet I won't be going to many here either.  At an absolute minimum of $39 a ticket for the nosebleeds, meaning basically $80 + tax, parking and concessions, I won't be going to many games myself either.  I'd be far more likely to spend my duckets on a concert or arts-basted performance. 

Seriously, I don't get this -- hockey is a working class sport, but in the towns where it's most ingrained, it's so expensive that only corporate schmucks can afford it. My brother has to come to Raleigh to see Detroit play.

That's another thing that's great about Carolina -- they have $22 nosebleed tickets every game, and you can get the following "Family Packs" if you buy more than a week in advance:

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*Buy 4 Upper Goal Zone Tickets for $39 - a $20 savings!
*Buy 4 Upper Corner Tickets for $99 - a $25 savings!
*Buy 4 Balcony Premier Tickets for $119 - a $42 savings!
*Buy 4 Lower Level North Tickets for $199 - a $75 savings!

Balcony premier seats, BTW, are excellent. That's what we usually get for games we really care about. They also have specials all the time for games against less popular teams like Tampa Bay.

Cheap? Not exactly. But definitely affordable enough that just about anyone who wants to go can afford to go once or twice a season. Hell, movie tickets are $10.50 at some of the theaters here nowadays; for $10 more in parking fees you could take your kids to see a hockey game with the cheapest family pack option.

Theatre and concert tickets, however, are nuts. I was looking yesterday at taking my kids to Phineas and Ferb Live next spring (yes, they're on sale now for March 2012) and the cheapest tickets there are $35 a pop. And those seats are nowhere near as close as the equivalently priced tickets at the RBC center.

There's really no bad seat in our hockey arena. It's a really thoughtfully designed space, you can get a good view even in the nosebleed seats. I once went to a game and had a cheap ticket because it was listed as "obstructed view." I didn't realize that it was an obstructed view ticket until my friend pointed it out halfway through the third period. There was a sheet of plexiglass with a 1" wide metal frame slightly to the right of my field of vision that I suppose was the "obstruction," but it certainly didn't bother me.
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #43 on: June 08, 2011, 01:51:45 am »
Pretty cool. That hit that led to the 8-1 drubbing was pretty rough. I won't link to it.
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Re: Lord Stanley's Cup
« Reply #44 on: June 12, 2011, 04:07:38 am »
Fuck the excuse, they should light that bitch up all the time.
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