THEIR PANSY ASSES CAN TRAVEL, WHAT BABIES!!

Let’s not pretend Florida is anywhere as good of a hockey market as Toronto, Montreal, and etc. However any hockey market will not show up when a team isn’t competitive for over a decade. No matter the team. Last year attendance started going up as the Panthers became more relevant. They did sell out all 4 home playoff games and lost Game 7 to the eventual eastern conference champion in overtime. The majority of that team is coming back. Not to mention they have built a top 5 prospect pool as well.

Until last year, the last time they made the playoffs, the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jacket hadn’t played an NHL game yet. The Atlanta Thrashers were an expansion team and Nashville was in their second season and Bill Clinton was still in office and and twin towers still stood tall over manhattan. No market will support a team that is dreadful for that long. Now they at least have a pulse.

ps: your handle sounds a little Hispanic, so perhaps you might enjoy the following ?

I suspect friend that the person called “adamczak2012″ is very serious … and so am I. Columbus Ohio is well within 500 miles “as the crow flies” from the Canadian border and therefore they have “every” right to be an NHL city! They are a hard-working, decent “values-driven” folk in that sector and they have much in common with their brothers to the north. As for Philadelphia? Well I’ve personally no quarrel with you people, apart from what Bobby Clarke did Kharlamov back in ’72 and the fact that “yours” was the birthplace of upset with mother England here in the Americas. Other than that, I’m precluded from saying anything else detrimental towards you people, as I know that you do mean well in the end.

id4joey = Daly

ps: the Rangers are well within 500 miles from the Canadian border !

You know, purely for travel reasons and nothing to do with cheap wins.

Smythe, Norris, Adams, Patrick.

Columbus is a better hockey market than half the cities in the NHL. After nearly a decade of losing the team still drew more than 15,000 fans/ game.

If you think Columbus should be eliminated, you’re just showing your ignorance. If you know nothing about hockey please don’t post any comments on a hockey story.

hell yeah!!!! I would love to make the trip north for that each year

Friends, even though it’s a few days late, it does look now like we’re going to get the one Christmas present which we all wanted the most … NHL hockey! (ie: it’s actually already confirmed with the puck dropping on Saturday January 19th @ 1500 hrs EST) And if you want a “source” for that, then just look up at the sky there in the blue yonder ).

Anyway, this realignment of the Jackets and Jets is just another example of the many “good” things which are now to surely result because of this little upset. And any notions that permanent damage has been done to the game are “idiotic” to say the least. The fact is that the game was already badly damaged well before this upset started and it needed attention. Well now thanks to Gary and crew, that damage is being repaired and then some, so that we don’t have to travel down this road again anytime soon. This much needed overhaul of the league was never going to be any easy process and the task of leading this overhaul effort was never going to be easy job. The contrived impasse, the paying off of Fehr, the fake press conferences, the phoney meetings, etc … all very confusing and difficult stuff. But Gary Bettman has been up to the challenge and it does all make sense when you look at it now, eh? It’s said that sometimes “the ends do justify the means”. Well I would submit to you friends, that this was definitely one such time.

GO BETTMAN !!!

GO END OF LOCKOUT !!!!!!