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Ehwmatt wrote:They are locking out again? Wasn't that just 2 years ago? Glad I'm not a hockey fan.
Squidward24 wrote:Ehwmatt wrote:They are locking out again? Wasn't that just 2 years ago? Glad I'm not a hockey fan.
Almost, it was 8 years ago, the 2004-2005 season.
I am 39. I've been watching the Wings since I can remember. My first memories are watching them in B&W TV on the old Channel 20 in Michigan, back when they were the Dead Things. I lost touch for a while. Then the shortened season in 94-95 happend I got back into hockey. I was a regular watcher after that and started to attend games in the 1996-1997 season. I suffered through the 2004-2005 lockout, but I returned with caution when it ended. I noticed that while I was happy to have hockey back my fanaticism was not what it was. The last 2 years I didn't watch as many games, I stopped watching the ASG altogether and only have watched 2 of the WC games, CHI-DET and BOS-PHI. I stay away from the NHL Awards and Draft altogether.
It seems to me the league was better off without a cap.
I am a firm believer that Gary Bruce Bettman has sanitized and brought down the talent level of the NHL with his expansion(s). There are players in the NHL that really don't/didn't belong, for example: Sean Avery, Colby Armstrong are just two. They are mediocre players and yet because of the 30 teams they get drafted. Contraction is the answer. I have a simple formula that will help determine what teams stay and go.
1) All Original 6 teams are safe.
2) All the 1968 expansion teams are safe. That means Dallas because they are a result of the combination of the California Golden Seals/Cleveland Barons and Minnesota Northstars.
3) Any team that has won the SC more 2 times or more (COL, NJD, NYI, EDM). And not in the above two choices.
4) The remaining Canadian teams (VAN, CAL, WPG, OTT).
That is a total of 20 teams. The rest figure in a complex formula of years in the league, wins vs losses, money put in, money taken out. Average attendance. Then you take the top 4 of those and you have a 24 team league. You cut away the flotsam and you have a strong 24 team league, 12 per conference. You play every team at least twice a year.
Just my POV, others will probably disagree.
Deb wrote:
GREAT post! Agreed.
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