Endless Possibilities. Zero Consensus.
The Benefits: • Focus — With more divisions, the main focus of an NHL team’s season is to win its division to guarantee it’s spot in the playoffs. Beat the other two teams in your division and your in. If you don’t, you still have three wildcard slots to shoot for, so its not an “all …
Looking more and more like a done deal. Can you believe it. If so, next up in the “deal with it” department, the New York Islanders. People of Quebec City and Seattle are not happy with this news for sure… don’t scoff at the idea of expansion in two years though. I wouldn’t be surprised… …
Just for fun,… what if Jay-Z was a hockey fan instead of a basketball fan and had joined up with a Russian billionaire to buy the Islanders from Charles Wang. We could be looking at something like this:
Yet another “breaking news” story from the “PHX sale”. The more I read about the City Council and the Goldwater institute, the less I think this is a “close to done” as some think. I wouldn’t be surprised if the sale were to be “completed”, but then Glendale and the Goldwater boys just throw more …
I knew less of these than I thought I would. Cool stuff. What’s in a Nickname? The Origins of All 30 NHL Team Names – Mental Floss.
The Benefits: • Opportunity — Teams in smaller markets with no hope of ever attracting an NHL team (either through relocation or expansion) would, in theory be able to earn their way up the food chain and get a shot at the Stanley Cup. • Opportunity II — Cities that could probably do well with and NHL …
Not sure I agree 100% with the purely even division of population to sports teams (not apples to apples, when a city doesn’t have team from a “less popular” league like the WNBA or the MLS), but I like the concept. Interesting stuff. —TF Could Seattle even support new NBA and NHL teams? | …
They say every dog has his day… could the Coyotes be on the verge of theirs? Via Phoenix Business Journal: Glendale, NHL trying to close Phoenix Coyotes deal with Jamison group – Phoenix Business Journal »
Click the above image to get to the full info-graphic. Some of you loyal readers my be wondering what happened to my weekly posts, as they are even later than normal. Well, in what little free time I’ve had, I got sucked into creating the info-graphic that I always looked for but never found… illustrating …
Red Hot & Blue This is probably going to be the shortest write up of all time, because I’d written the longest write up of all time, then thanks to my Magic Mouse and OS X Lion on my Mac, an accidental and tiny single finger swipe acts as a “back button” and I …