I grew up playing hockey in PA, I love the game, I really do, I still get out to skate occasionally but not as much as I would like. I was a Philadelphia Flyers fan to the core for 10 long years mostly in the 90's, and the hockey was great. Everyone talked about it. The market share on TV in the north was great! Everyone was making money. Then Bettman took over and teams started moving south. Now they have Nashville, Atlanta, Tampa Bay, Dallas, Carolina???? Do any of the people in those places know what ice is? Do any of them care about hockey? Why would they, the don't know what ice is. And the league wonders why the teams are losing money hand over fist. As a hockey fan, I don't particularly care to see Carolina play Atlanta. There is no crowd roar, I want to see Boston vs Philadelphia. I want to see Calgary vs Vancouver. Can the teams in the south, restock the teams in the north with the talent and watch the game come back alive. It will never compete with football or basketball or baseball in warmer climates because people don't identify with it. Why would they? They didn't grow up playing hockey. Anyway, Bettman, I hope you get hit by a truck, and I hope all the ice melts in the sun belt towns.
4 comments on Why I Quit Watching the Nhl
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Bster
said 6 months ago
It is much easier to give up the NHL when you don't live in Canada or close to it.....I am trying but I am starting to think smoking was easier.
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theprofessor
said 6 months ago
Lets take it one step further. Reuce the number of teams so that we can see some quality hockey and some good old fashioned rivalries. I am in Fla for the past 38 years, coming from Mass. Loved the old Bruins and Canadiens games. Rangers were an enemy. Chicago was thought of as the "West" Loved Toronto, Detroit. Get my drift? The talent has been diluted with expansion. Load up on 10 to 12 teams and watch the quality improve and watch the TV revenue kick in. People will watch a quality product. What you have now is boring.
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pmcbrier
said 6 months ago
You hit the hammer on the head, exactly what I am getting at. Plus the fact that when Bettman was put in as commissioner he had not even been to a game!
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pmcbrier
said 6 months ago
You are right. If I still lived in Philadelphia it would be much more difficult to let it go to hell, but since all I ever get on TV here are crap games between a couple of sunbelt teams with no crowd, never the canadian teams, then it is over for me. I will still watch all the DU games that make it my way that I can, I love the college hockey.
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