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NHL Season 2022-23

#161
My buddy has had a pair of seasons tickets for years. Twenty years ago, pre-season, regular season and play-off tickets (which he was required to buy regardless of whether or not the Leafs made the play-offs!) were running him close to $40k a year. Dinner, a couple of beers and tickets was a $1K+ night. I stopped going to games and he stopped asking years ago. Too rich for this poor boys blood!
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#163
SoonerBill said:
I'm becoming afraid that last year was my Avs one year. Yeah, they've had a lot of injuries so far but mostly everyone is back and they still can't seem to gel. Maybe they'll figure it out. I hope so.
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Don't sweat it at this point. It's January, and you don't want your team peaking this early, only to hit a slump just in time for the post-season. Besides, ain't nobody in the West really running away with it, not like the Bruins are in the East. Let them get healthy and gel at the right time, and they'll be one of the top teams out of the West. :thumbsup:

Meanwhile, I'm waiting for my Penguins to click on all cylinders consistently. This season has been the streakiest I've ever seen them. Win a handful, then lose a handful. :banghead:
 
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#164
dwm74 said:
Don't sweat it at this point. It's January, and you don't want your team peaking this early, only to hit a slump just in time for the post-season. Besides, ain't nobody in the West really running away with it, not like the Bruins are in the East. Let them get healthy and gel at the right time, and they'll be one of the top teams out of the West. :thumbsup:

Meanwhile, I'm waiting for my Penguins to click on all cylinders consistently. This season has been the streakiest I've ever seen them. Win a handful, then lose a handful. :banghead:
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Funny you mention the Bruins. I have an employee that's a huge Bruins fan. He's whined for years about how they should be good but aren't. I'm happy for him this year. They're kicking a$$.
 
#173
I Remember a few seasons of the thrashers where I paid $14 a game for season tickets. I had 4 seats for a few years. Was a holder of atleast 2 seats for 5 years. Of course the product on the ice was meh, but I still got to watch a bunch of great teams come through. I also got an all star game weekend. It was still alot of fun and occasionally the thrashers competed. Fast forward and I'm a preds fan. Hard to get to a game for $100 a seat, and the travel for me is 4 hrs each way. I still haven't been to a preds game due to cost, but one of these days I'm going to splurge and go for it.
 
#174
As I recall, the seats I had for the Jersey Devils game were right by the glass. I went with a friend who was a big hockey fan, and I think they were her family's seats. At any rate, I got enthusiastic with the other fans and was beating on the glass. She was mortified. It wasn't what she did. Nothing got thrown onto the ice, though, so that was good.
 
#175
GoLeafsGo said:
Prepare to be amazed at how fast it actually is, TV just does not capture that. Enjoy!
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You're so right. I used to go to public skates at the Hersheypark Arena. A lot of times, as soon as the public skate was over some of the Hershey Bears (AHL team) would take the ice just to get some skating in. I was always amazed at their speed, even just messing around. And those at the NHL level are even more consistently fast up and down the roster.
 
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Jeff K said:
You're so right. I used to go to public skates at the Hersheypark Arena. A lot of times, as soon as the public skate was over some of the Hershey Bears (AHL team) would take the ice just to get some skating in. I was always amazed at their speed, even just messing around. And those at the NHL level are even more consistently fast up and down the roster.
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I used to play amateur league hockey. One guy on my team was a former pro from the minors. Even though he was no longer anywhere near competitive professionally, he was significantly faster, stronger, and more skilled in nearly every way to anybody else in our league.

Every level that you go up, the talent increases by a huge margin. If the best AHL team played the worst NHL team, the NHL team would win 20 to 0.

My brother also played amateur hockey. His team once played a charity game against the Blackhawks alumni (retired Hawks players) and I went to see it.

The former Hawks players were clearly loafing around the ice, barely putting any effort into it because it was a friendly game for charity and they wanted to keep it interesting and fun.

My brother confirmed that his teammates were busting their butts out on the ice while the former NHL pros were barely breaking a sweat. Stan Mikita was skating circles around everybody and no one could touch him with his incredible stick handling skill, even though he was almost 60 at the time.

My bro also told me that he used some fancy move to try to take the puck away from one of his opponents (I think it might have been Cliff Koroll) and the old geezer let him think he was getting away with it for a brief moment before he grabbed my brother's stick and yanked on it, which he said felt like his arms were being ripped out of their sockets. Then the guy winked at him.

"Don't try that on me, sonny."

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hbarcat said:
I used to play amateur league hockey. One guy on my team was a former pro from the minors. Even though he was no longer anywhere near competitive professionally, he was significantly faster, stronger, and more skilled in nearly every way to anybody else in our league.

Every level that you go up, the talent increases by a huge margin. If the best AHL team played the worst NHL team, the NHL team would win 20 to 0.

My brother also played amateur hockey. His team once played a charity game against the Blackhawks alumni (retired Hawks players) and I went to see it.

The former Hawks players were clearly loafing around the ice, barely putting any effort into it because it was a friendly game for charity and they wanted to keep it interesting and fun.

My brother confirmed that his teammates were busting their butts out on the ice while the former NHL pros were barely breaking a sweat. Stan Mikita was skating circles around everybody and no one could touch him with his incredible stick handling skill, even though he was almost 60 at the time.

My bro also told me that he used some fancy move to try to take the puck away from one of his opponents (I think it might have been Cliff Koroll) and the old geezer let him think he was getting away with it for a brief moment before he grabbed my brother's stick and yanked on it, which he said felt like his arms were being ripped out of their sockets. Then the guy winked at him.

"Don't try that on me, sonny."

:D
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Somehow, none of that surprises me in the least.
 
#179
Corigan said:
I Remember a few seasons of the thrashers where I paid $14 a game for season tickets. I had 4 seats for a few years. Was a holder of atleast 2 seats for 5 years. Of course the product on the ice was meh, but I still got to watch a bunch of great teams come through. I also got an all star game weekend. It was still alot of fun and occasionally the thrashers competed. Fast forward and I'm a preds fan. Hard to get to a game for $100 a seat, and the travel for me is 4 hrs each way. I still haven't been to a preds game due to cost, but one of these days I'm going to splurge and go for it.
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I'm gonna take wild guess and say ya might find sumpin' else worth doing in 'Smashville'.;)
 
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