Preadators staying in Nashville [Archive]

SithCeNtZ

12-07-2007, 11:00 PM

Link (http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3146206)

Looks like the Sprint Center is going to be empty for a very long time :banghead:

ChiefsCountry

12-07-2007, 11:08 PM

Don't look now but some team out in Sacramento is looking for a new arena and keeps getting rejected.

kcchiefsus

12-07-2007, 11:52 PM

What a joke. What a waste of an arena.

ChiefsCountry

12-08-2007, 12:11 AM

What a joke. What a waste of an arena.

Patientince, if AEG wasnt running it I wouldnt have any faith in it at all. AEG will get us a team.

FAX

12-08-2007, 01:31 AM

Sorry about that, gentlemen. The thing is, the general populace really doesn't know much about hockey. It really isn't a southern thing.

For example, we had a deal in their first or second year here where somebody scored a hat trick. Anyhow, a few fans threw their hats on the ice and the security guards escorted them out of the building.

FAX

DaWolf

12-08-2007, 01:39 AM

Yeah, I'm sure Oklahoma Citys arena was a waste of an arena too when they built it with no major league tennant in town... :rolleyes:

POND_OF_RED

12-08-2007, 03:00 AM

Garth Brooks sold more tickets for 9 days than a hockey team could in a season. When the Stanley Cup finals are on Outdoor Life Network you know the sport has hit rock bottom. The only thing that keeps it running are the diehards in cold areas where hockey is life. Hockey will fail in Kansas City...

ChiefsCountry

12-08-2007, 04:28 AM

POND_OF_RED

12-08-2007, 04:36 AM

I call BS on that. Hockey on tv sucks but in person its the best sport to watch.
The fan base will be a few hundred die hards and lots of people will go to a couple games through the season hoping to see a good fight and not the actual hockey game. If we got the Penguins like the original plan was I think it could have taken off just because of Crosby, but we will more than likely get a losing team without any star players so no one will care. We'll sell out the games with the Blues but thats about it...

Bump

12-08-2007, 04:38 AM

I thought this was gonna be about Chris Hansen on dateline NBC

patteeu

12-08-2007, 07:11 AM

Don't look now but some team out in Sacramento is looking for a new arena and keeps getting rejected.

LOL, that would be ironic. The added bonus is that everyone who saved their Kansas City Kings gear could pull it out of mothballs.

http://www.distantreplays.com/distant/assets/product_images/PAAAIAKHGFJLKFAF.jpg

HonestChieffan

12-08-2007, 07:13 AM

hockey looks like soccer on skates.

chagrin

12-08-2007, 07:32 AM

The fan base will be a few hundred die hards and lots of people will go to a couple games through the season hoping to see a good fight and not the actual hockey game. If we got the Penguins like the original plan was I think it could have taken off just because of Crosby, but we will more than likely get a losing team without any star players so no one will care. We'll sell out the games with the Blues but thats about it...

Every team has star players on the roster now - it's what's killed the game, all the friggin expansion

chagrin

12-08-2007, 07:33 AM

hockey looks like soccer on skates.

except it's a cool game, and it's fans aren't ghey

Saulbadguy

12-08-2007, 08:31 AM

except it's a cool game, and it's fans aren't ghey
Yep. We have a junior league team here in Topeka and I look forward to going to those games as much as Chiefs games. It's a blast, and it's cheap.

Skip Towne

12-08-2007, 08:52 AM

Yep. We have a junior league team here in Topeka and I look forward to going to those games as much as Chiefs games. It's a blast, and it's cheap.
Junior league? A rich ladies' hockey team?

Sully

12-08-2007, 09:17 AM

The Nashville news is a couple of weeks old, at least.
We are in the top spot for an expansion team, right now, with Vegas. Is it good for the league? Probably not. But I simply want the NHL here.

jiveturkey

12-08-2007, 11:29 AM

Yeah, I'm sure Oklahoma Citys arena was a waste of an arena too when they built it with no major league tennant in town... :rolleyes:
We don't even need a tenant for it to be worth it.

Mecca

12-08-2007, 11:32 AM

The Nashville news is a couple of weeks old, at least.
We are in the top spot for an expansion team, right now, with Vegas. Is it good for the league? Probably not. But I simply want the NHL here.

They shouldn't be expanding....if anything they should cut a few teams.

FAX

12-08-2007, 11:53 AM

except it's a cool game, and it's fans aren't ghey

It's exciting to watch in person. Extremely fast and violent game. There are some guys playing hockey who would make excellent linebackers and safeties, I think.

FAX

Skip Towne

12-08-2007, 11:55 AM

It's exciting to watch in person. Extremely fast and violent game. There are some guys playing hockey who would make excellent linebackers and safeties, I think.

FAX
Are they fast enough for the NFL? No skates allowed in the NFL.

ChiefsCountry

12-08-2007, 11:56 AM

I bet NBA will expand as well. You know they arent going to leave the Seattle market open. Plus with new arenas in KC and soon to be in Louisville & Las Vegas, they will jump somewhere.

FAX

12-08-2007, 11:58 AM

Are they fast enough for the NFL? No skates allowed in the NFL.

I think so. Wasn't there a big time NFL player who was also a skater, Mr. Skip Towne? I seem to recall a story about how this person attributed his good footwork to skating.

FAX

Skip Towne

12-08-2007, 12:07 PM

I think so. Wasn't there a big time NFL player who was also a skater, Mr. Skip Towne? I seem to recall a story about how this person attributed his good footwork to skating.

FAX
I must have missed that.

Bearcat

12-08-2007, 12:11 PM

hockey looks like soccer on skates.

Besides the smaller playing area, no out of bounds, more action, more scoring chances, more goals scored, nets that don't have to be half the width of the field, more physical play, hand-eye coordination as well as skating ability, and big games that come down to actually playing the game and not shootouts... you might be on to something.