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This:
beats this:
any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
I was neutral on this topic until this post - cant have it jersey ads now
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Klingberg has been called up but apparently Ruff has been skating him with Jordie Benn. Gag.
EDIT:
Hmmm
http://starsblog.dallasnews.com/201...rship-drill-and-top-players-finish-last.html/
EDIT:
Hmmm
http://starsblog.dallasnews.com/201...rship-drill-and-top-players-finish-last.html/
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Should add - the next night the Heat and Miami were in town to play the Knicks - same seats on stubhub where a lazy 1180 US.
Now which is the sport poor black kids can't play again?
Bradesmaen
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That giant contract he got given off of a few half seasons of play was really good..
Just looking at that 2004 draft for goalies. 3 in the top 30, including Schneider and Montoya.. Rinne goes 258th.
melbournemartin
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Like I said, that's an extreme example of ads in Europe. The NHL will probably me more like this:
Best logo in hockey
Hawks1523
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Like I said, that's an extreme example of ads in Europe. The NHL will probably me more like this:
Best logo in hockey
The problem is though it still looks like s**t. You have ads all along the boards, television deals, there's no need for advertising on jerseys
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Like I said, that's an extreme example of ads in Europe. The NHL will probably me more like this:
Best logo in hockey
Last time I checked this was the NHL regular season thread.
Can we get a new thread for all things European hockey so I don't have to read it?
melbournemartin
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I'd rather see more ads on the ice before on the jerseys, but at the end of the day this is the fourth biggest sport in North America, with close competition from UFC and soccer. Got to make money somehow.
And of course I agree mate it's not as good as a clean jersey but people will get over it very quickly, just like they have in pretty much every sport in every other country in the world where there are ads on guernseys.
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Hawks1523
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We will get used to it because we love the sport, but it's still a stupid idea. I won't be happy about it, but if / when it happens I'm certainly not going to buy a jersey with the ads all over them. I know me not buying one doesn't effect the nhl in anyway, but I'm sure there will be others who won't either.
Get more ads on boards, screens around the arena, I don't care where else they have to advertise I just don't want it on the ice or jerseys. But oh well we will all deal with it and move on
melbournemartin
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Not economically, unfortunately.
The big money comes from ads that are seen on TV. Boards around the ice are already saturated, and some networks have resorted to tv-only ads projected onto the netting. Other boards around the arena are only seen by the 17k in there, not the 100s of thousands watching on tv.
Putting them on the ice would be highly visible marketing and probably a nicer alternative to fans (does having ads on the ice really hurt?)
Hawks1523
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I get economically it makes sense for the NHL. But from a fan stand point I don't think many will like the idea
melbournemartin
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Barely noticeable in Finland...
Like the jersey shown before, that's on the extreme end. I'd propose something more like below (loudest hockey arena in the world)
For some reason I can't see any of the images you guys are posting, but I'm sure they're all compelling.
My take on this is that as long as they don't go crazy (like in a number of European leagues we've seen), I don't really care. There's advertising everywhere in hockey right now: on the ice, along the boards (including those annoying lit-up ads in places like NYI), along the glass, TV timeouts etc etc. A couple of small ads on a jersey (I'm thinking similar to those in the AFL) wouldn't do any harm. We'll all get used to it within a week and won't know why we were so worried about it.
Ideally, I'd love there to be no advertising anywhere, but I'd be living in a fantasy world to expect that.
My take on this is that as long as they don't go crazy (like in a number of European leagues we've seen), I don't really care. There's advertising everywhere in hockey right now: on the ice, along the boards (including those annoying lit-up ads in places like NYI), along the glass, TV timeouts etc etc. A couple of small ads on a jersey (I'm thinking similar to those in the AFL) wouldn't do any harm. We'll all get used to it within a week and won't know why we were so worried about it.
Ideally, I'd love there to be no advertising anywhere, but I'd be living in a fantasy world to expect that.
melbournemartin
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You're right, for some reason they have all disappeared.
I agree. They won't reach extreme Europe levels, at least not initially. It'll probably be similar to the AFL, i.e. something small on the front and big on the back. That's what a lot of Swiss and Russian teams are like, and some of the other richer teams around the continent e.g. Sparta Praha.
catters078
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Interesting trade..Gonchar for Moen, not for the players..but for the likley domino.
Montreal keen to kick the tyres and take a ping on gonchars slap shot (just dont let him play defense) he probably shouldnt be in the league any more barring some power play depth on the point.
Moen wont add anything more than some grit a power to the 4th line, they might put him on the power play to be in front of the net like morrow used to do, we have nothing else in that regard and our power play struggles as a result, wasting jamie benns talent by putting him there, hopefully moen can give us something there. we do have a few injuries too, so moen can occupy the 4th line with fiddler and horcoff (a very good 2005 line)
From a dallas POV i think we save 3 mil on the cap, and as we are tight maybe another trade is coming for a defenseman??
Gonchar is a UFA and will retire next season, so the habs dont have any cap issues with it..
Montreal keen to kick the tyres and take a ping on gonchars slap shot (just dont let him play defense) he probably shouldnt be in the league any more barring some power play depth on the point.
Moen wont add anything more than some grit a power to the 4th line, they might put him on the power play to be in front of the net like morrow used to do, we have nothing else in that regard and our power play struggles as a result, wasting jamie benns talent by putting him there, hopefully moen can give us something there. we do have a few injuries too, so moen can occupy the 4th line with fiddler and horcoff (a very good 2005 line)
From a dallas POV i think we save 3 mil on the cap, and as we are tight maybe another trade is coming for a defenseman??
Gonchar is a UFA and will retire next season, so the habs dont have any cap issues with it..
Interesting thing about that Gonchar-Moen trade is that the Stars retained $400,000 of Gonchar's $5mil salary. It's a surprisingly small amount (8%), which leads me to believe there may be something else coming for the Habs. According to capgeek, they currently have $1.973mil in space.
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They use Benn and Seguin as PK'ers.. enough said.
