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Can't imagine Babcock would want to walk into that cluster fuck of a situation in Toronto. PLEASE DON'T GO!

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babcock is not going to toronto.

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That's because Sekera and Coburn are better players than Wiz.

I'm merely saying that getting Karlsson is a nice addition for the 'Bus. He's got talent.

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Babcock is coming to Philly.

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I just hate the uncertainty. I know everyone is high on Blashill in Grand Rapids but a rookie coach taking over? I guess Babcock did with the Ducks. I remember hearing a story once, that when Babs was coaching the Cincinnati AHL team which was a joint minor league team for the Wings and Ducks, he met Ken Holland (in 2002) and said he was gonna be the next coach of the Wings after Scotty. Holland said "we don't hire first year coaches." One year later he was in Anaheim and swept the Wings and took the Ducks to within one win of the Cup....

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Loved Kessel sticking up for Phaneuf. That's like the most fire since he's shown since... ever.

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I think it's Shea Weber's Norris to lose.

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yea he's probably the front runner right now, but if Tanger keeps piling up points and playing solid defense, he'll have something to say about it

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So Ted Leonsis, often praised as one of the best owners in sports, has just raised top tier season ticket prices by 250%. That is not a typo, two hundred and fifty percent. What was an $8,000/yr seat (~10 rows off the ice or closer) this season is now a whopping $20,000/yr for next season. What's worse, current STHers were not given any advance notice of the increase, they found out when the annual invoice email came.

As much as I love the Washington Capitals, I absolutely hate that crook. He's in it for the corporate fillers which is surely all that can afford to spend that kind of money. And let's keep one thing in mind here: we're talking about the CAPS. Not the Habs, not the Leafs, not the Wings, not the Hawks. The fucking Capitals. I'm unsure of exact prices for other clubs, but I cannot imagine even for the elite and always in demand franchises that they would be much higher if even this high at all. That breaks down to just under $500 A GAME. Again, for the Washington FUCKING Capitals. Absolutely insane, and a huge slap to many fans that have stuck with this dumpster of a franchise for DECADES. He should be ashamed of himself. But he's not. I hope everyone cancels and the seats stay empty.

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:lol Capitals

jesus

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Weber absolutely deserves the Norris this year. Not to take away from the season many d-men are having (Letang included), there's just not a more complete defenseman in the NHL right now than Shea. And he's playing like it this year.

So sad to see Giordano go down. Love that guy.

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It's frustrating ya know, because as much as I really do love the team on the ice and want to see them succeed so badly, I would hate for Ted to get that satisfaction. He truly does not deserve it.

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If it makes you feel better, I don't think they get out of the 2nd round(could lose in the 1st honestly), but that's me.

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Well and they probably will.

But that makes it even worse, because while the team on the ice continues to be just simply above average but not truly elite most years, the ticket prices keep going up and up and up.

Again, I love the team and I want them to win above anything else, but if I was in a position to actually go to any hockey games (which I'm really not) I would have to think very carefully if I really want that piece of garbage making money off my hard earned buck. Fuck Leonsis, he's a dirtbag.

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Wow, that is ugly by the Caps organization. Sorry to hear that.

I remember the fans in Toronto flipping out because Toronto FC did close to the same after the team missed the playoffs again. Asking that much when the team has not one a title is insane.

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So raised the top tier. What about the rest? He's trying to get the corporate people to buy those up. Huge money there. Wings have done that for a while. My tickets tomorrow are just ok and for two they cost me almost $150.

Toronto, they keep selling out so, they are gonna keep charging. Fans can throw jerseys all they want. That money was already spent by those fans on the sweater and the ticket.

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ya im guessing the people who own the top tier seats are not indiviudals, it's corporate and an easy money grab for any organization.
i don't think that's such an awful crime.
also $8,000/yr for those seats seems pretty cheap compared to what I've seen in other arenas.
That's comporable to what CBJ charges for the glass seats and Columbus is a much smaller market with a much smaller fan base.

Barbs you need to get your shit straight before you bitch. The price increase that your talking of only effects 2% of the overall capacity of seats. All they did was extend the VIP seats to include 2 more rows.

The price increase next year is only 3% excluding the VIP seats. And the Caps are working with those customers who were in those seats on finding them new seats on a one-on-one basis.


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I read on Washington Post that approximately 60% of the seats in the building will increase in prices next year. Only level I've seen exact figures for is the top tier.

I should clarify, I don't really have a problem with raising the prices. I have a problem with raising them by the amount he did. He's taken seats that already cost a lot of money away from the hands of regular people that have been in those seats for decades in some cases, and made it so only corporate sponsors can afford them. This is a team that is only a decade removed from the fire sale and less than a decade removed from being a last place team in the NHL. When was the last time the Red Wings finished in last place? These people that can't afford the seats anymore are the same people that bought season tickets back in the really bad days, back when there was a thing called the Eagle's Nest at the top of the building and you could buy 4 tickets for $20 (i.e. about ten years ago). And this is how Ted treats them. It's garbage, despicable garbage. There's now way around it.

Simple point is the Caps aren't the Wings or the Leafs, not even close. Toronto is and always will be the most in demand franchise. It's because they are in Toronto and nothing more. You can't really put a Canadian franchise in the same light as a team like the Caps. The Wings don't have bad seasons, they haven't for almost my entire life. There's a difference there. Verizon Center is littered with division title banners. That's all they got.

Raising the prices is fine, making them unaffordable to the people that have been in those seats through the dark days is not.

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Does not change the fact that he's made it unaffordable for long term STHers to keep their seats. No matter how you spin it, that's a dirty move

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I know of several instances where they are in fact individuals, obviously I cannot account for every seat. But screwing over anyone who has forked out that kind of money for a minimal on ice return sucks

It literally affects 300 seats. Poor STH have to move back one row.

All they did was extended the VIP area. This is a literal non-issue.

This is not a dick move and you are blasting Leonsis for no reason


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yeah barbs, give the Caps a break. Do you know how many President's Trophies they've won?

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Why should anyone want to move back any amount of rows?

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The other thing you forget to make mention of is that at no point were STH that would be affected this informed of the price increase until the bill came. That's pretty shitty IMO

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I'm very upset....that the Coyotes game on Thursday will not be on tv nationally. They are wearing their original jerseys. Sure they were ugly, but they were the 90's.

Not being informed is shitty but it still doesn't change the fact your blasting Leonsis for legitimate business move. Leonsis overall is a very sound owner


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As a Pens fan, I have despised Leonsis since he intentionally blocked people with 412 area codes or Pittsburgh Zip Codes from buying tickets to Pens-Caps games in D. C.

Yes, ticket prices are going to rise, but this is a grade-A dick move. At least let people know beforehand. And corporate money-grab or no, it is a huge increase.

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I remember that. That's hilarious. :lol:lol:lol:lol

What a bunch of sore losers.

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Those really were some amazing jerseys

Ok

This sure never kept Pens fans out of Verizon Center :lol

And exactly, if you're gonna talk and blog about how much you care about your fans, at least give them a heads up and have a remedial plan laid out. Just sending a bill with that kind of price hike is beyond grimy

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Guys... it just hit me. What if Brohan IS Leonsis?

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It's totally hilarious as the bolded is true and the Pens kept winning in the playoffs! :lol

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http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2011/09/mind_blown.gif

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uhhhhhhhhhhhh LOL WHAT

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Whether the Avs make the playoffs or not (spoiler: they won't), stuff like this is what makes them - and most other hockey players - awesome.

http://video.avalanche.nhl.com/video...sole?id=767586

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Just saw the comments Kessel made earlier today. Good for Phil.

Also BOBROVSKY! gets back in the cage tonight vs Caps

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So Lupul, Phaneuf and Phaneuf's wife are all evidently suing TSN for that tweet incident on Monday. Demanding TSN "pay a significant amount of damages". Rich people suing rich people. :rolleyes

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Sue them for human error? OK. Maybe the people of Toronto can sue the Leafs for signing Dion to that contract.

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Exactly. It's ridiculous

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OK, that's just stupid.

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great call in philly to disallow the Schultz goal.. and by great call I mean a terrible call.

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Flyers got jobbed by the refs. Unbelievable.

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Why was it disallowed?

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wow, apparently both montoya and luongo got hurt in tonight's game. Florida has to find a goalie like NOW.

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Wild finish in the Caps/Jackets game. Curious to hear from Marcus Johansson after the broken stick incident. I believe he was in fact guilty, correct call was made IMO

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Montoya back...for now. The Panthers currently have a skater putting goalie gear on.

Montoya looks rough.

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Derek McKenzie is Panthers back up.

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Florida's goalie coach. (Rob Tallas, played less then 100 NHL games. Last one in 2001) is now dressed as a backup.

Montoya can barely move in there. Would really really suck if the Panthers miss the playoffs because of this game.

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Preds doing all they can to keep the Central tight.

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Absolutely wild situation in FLA. Montoya looks like he needs to come out. I say put in goalie coach.

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Luongo back in.

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Loungo was in street clothes 10min ago. Back in net now. What a scene.

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:lol wow he's back

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Luongo now back in. Was literally in his suit less than 10 minutes ago. Just bananas

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Go fucking Panthers

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Panthers win essentially kills Flyers chances at playoffs.

Go 'Cats.

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We are all Panthers fans tonight.

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'C'mon Jagr, be the hero they brought you there to be!

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Damn. Can't remember a time I've pulled so hard for the Florida Panthers

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I'm a Panthers fan for good after that gutsy performance tonight.

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I guess all it takes to get a Leafs win is for both of the opponent's goalies to get hurt. Even then it's a struggle

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Couldn't be happier the Kings play the Oilers two more times this season.

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Good Lord the Preds are pissing me off lately. Just uninspired playing. Dropping games left and right. It's amazing that we're still atop the standings.

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It just goes to show how dominant they were for a while.

Funks happen. I'm just upset the Hawks aren't playing the Preds again (and haven't in months). Such shitty scheduling to have them play so many games against each other so early.

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If the Flyers could go ahead and beat the Blues a couple times in the next week, that'd be great.

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maybe it's just me, but it seems like the scheduling gets weirder every year

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It happens. If you're gonna get one, get one now and hope they get it out of their system.

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A nice read about the Toronto situation.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/...nd-arthur.html

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fun game to watch, these two teams have put on a show this year.
i love the rivalry between bob and ovi, im sure they know each other pretty well.
you watch that game last night and realize the jackets are missing dubinksy, jenner, murray etc... gives me hope for next year.

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Yeah I mean I've only seen the Jacksts the 5 times they've played the Caps this year but they've played some seriously good games. Lots of reasons to be excited about next year for Columbus when they don't lose 400+ man games or whatever it's been

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Wings and Pens made it to the playoffs losing that many games last year. :) Barely for the Wings but...whatever. lol

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So weird news. World Cup will be on ESPN here in the states, not NBC/NBCSN.

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that is quite odd.
ESPN will have to pretend hockey is a good sport for a few weeks.

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I thought well maybe cause it's a dead time in sports but it's not. If it was August then maybe but MLB season will be wrapping up and NFL will have started so not like they need it. Probably means it'll be relegated to the Ocho.

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I've been wondering if ESPN wants in on some of the hockey money right now. You can argue the league has never been more marketable. every big market has a good team currently, the opposite is true for the NBA.

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They probably want in but have another 6 years to get a sniff of the NHL so maybe they thought this will have to do. Thorne doesn't work for ESPN anymore as far as I know, so wonder if they will try to get him to do this.

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ESPN might be making a play with the NHL to try and get rights back when the deal with NBC is up.

The real shame is not having Doc call those games. Who will call them? Bucci?

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I like Bucci, but he is not a play by play guy. Levy used to do it back in the day.

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Bucci calls college hockey on occasion.

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Sorry, ***cawlidge hawkey

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I don't mind some of the play-by-play Bucci's done with cawlidge hawkey, but that's admittedly a small sample size.

EDIT: Chris... I got distracted for about 30 seconds before I posted this ^. Meaning that we could have been typing "cawlidge hawkey" at about the same time WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING IT.

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http://i.imgur.com/OX7zUZ5.jpg

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:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Great, great movie. Easily my favorite Jason Bateman role of all time

http://www.propstore.com/product-images/2263/199094.jpg

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I sure do like pumpkins, Cotton.

I wasn't a big fan of Bucci doing play by play. Get Gary back, do Levy or sign up Doc. Thorne did the Olympics back in the day when ESPN had hockey but NBC had the Olympics so they can do that.

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I always loved Thorne. He's currently the Baltimore Orioles regular so on the rare occasion I check out baseball I get a nice dose of Thorne. I'd say try to get him back, no one booms out "HE SCORES!" quite like Gary Thorne. Steve Levy would also be fine. I like him too

Of course if they can get Doc that's a no brainer

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRoNqiiY6Lg

Even though I HATE the 90s Wings...this is my favorite Thorne call. How classic.

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Yeah, great stuff. The guy's voice just booms like a cannon. I also forgot how much I liked Bill Clemente doing color. That was a really solid announce team.

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Now I'm stuck in YouTube watching my favorite NHL calls of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Od1O23P7I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxnDeb-TLhE

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I am partial to the local Detroit broadcast since I saw it that way but this is good.

I never really watched ESPN since I didn't have cable, so my memorable playoff goals are CBC calls. My favorite Thorne ones involving the Wings were these two:

Sorry Philly fans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqArFH7uYf0

Sorry Matty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AraCMoTJ0Jk&t=426

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Not even gonna watch. Already know what it is. Jerk.

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Could be a couple things. Could be the one I posted, or this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKeTho0bkvs

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My favorite games to watch are against the Hawks just because it seems like it's always a hard fought game. I was really surprised that those games were so front loaded on the schedule.

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Sounds like Hank is game time decision tonight. He better play, gonna wear my WC jersey.

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This is what I'm hoping. They know they've got a playoff spot and are maybe just letting off the gas a little. I don't know. Either way it seems lately that there is just no giddy up in their game. Except for Forsberg, Weber, and Rinne. They all come to play every single night.

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Yeah I remember reading about that a little while ago. At least ESPN will be doing some hockey coverage now. May actually grow the sport here in the states.

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Panthers are screwed:
https://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/s...90404817829889

And

Didn't know this:
https://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/s...90888068800512

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man, joffrey lupul is apparently now challenging people to fights over instagram.

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Welcome to Toronto.
http://www.historytoday.com/sites/de...stle_Romeo.jpg

Stay away, Babs. Stay away.

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Sign Bryz, Panthers.

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Just took a peek at FLA's depth chart and I forgot they have Dan Ellis in their system. He's got a decent amount of NHL experience and could potentially step in without too much of a talent drop off. Of course, he hasn't played an NHL game in a while.

I had no idea about that post-trade deadline trade rule. Interesting.