Quote Originally Posted by OumaFan View Post
I have a fabulous stream tonight and I still have a hard time following the puck. Well really just on shots. For the most part I don't know its a goal till the horn sounds, they say it is, team celebrates, etc. And I don't know half of the time when a puck was saved by a goalie or if just went wide. I'm not sure hockey's a great stream sport.

If that Willie Mitchell guy is the best defensive defender then he needs to get healthy. That's my expert commentary for tonight. Fucking seemingly more Vancouver fans there than Phoenix fans. Which of course brings up the point that why the fuck is there a hockey team in Phoenix? Or Nashville? Etc. I know there are bigger markets in the US but it seems like five or six Canadian teams is a bit low. Are there any big Canadian markets without a team? And when did Nashville become a big market? Columbus I guess could draw fans from around Ohio but I suspect the only hockey fans in Tennessee for the most part are in Nashville.
Hockey is a hard sport to watch on a stream, but you get used to it. Higher quality like the ADTHE (sp?) streams are the best.

As for the teams in the southern U.S., that was part of Gary "Please Fire Me Now" Bettman's scheme of force-feeding American's a game that they had no history with. Unsurprisingly, it failed miserably. Phoenix is bound for southern Ontario next year and I wouldn't be surprised to see the Predators, Panthers, Lightning, or Thrashers relocate soon. Again unsurprisingly, Bettman desperately wants to put teams in Los Vegas and Kansas City (yes, Kansas City). Vegas might work, but Kansas City is doomed to failure. Some Canadians will tell you that, in addition to another team in south Ontario, that both Winnipeg and Quebec City, two places that once had teams, can support an NHL team better than many of the southern markets, but whether or not that is true remains to be seen.

Contraction by 3 or 4 teams and relocation of one or two others would be best for the league, both in terms of markets and the quality of the game, but it will never happen under Bettman's watch.