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meltdown75 said:
i was there OLE'ing right along with everyone last month... the atmosphere is contagious... what a place to see a game. AMAZING, nothing short of AMAZING.

the hot dogs were crappy though. lol 😀

and now... just by visiting the Centre Bell.... i am 95% Oilers fan and 5% Habs ()🙂
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You'll have to come down to the Verizon Center in DC. 55 consecutive sellouts and counting... Ted keeps reinvesting wisely in the Caps and he may turn the city from football to hockey in a few years. People who don't even follow hockey are now going to every game, it's amazing.
 
SP33Demon said:
You'll have to come down to the Verizon Center in DC. 55 consecutive sellouts and counting... Ted keeps reinvesting wisely in the Caps and he may turn the city from football to hockey in a few years. People who don't even follow hockey are now going to every game, it's amazing.
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This is Montreal we are talking about. The Caps have nothing on them in terms of atmosphere.
 
GoSharks said:
This is Montreal we are talking about. The Caps have nothing on them in terms of atmosphere.
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Being a fan of a rival team, I hate to say it, but the Caps have all sorts of atmosphere.

A few years ago, I used to be able to walk up and get tickets to the Caps-Flyers game or really whenever a decent opponent was coming to town. Including the $10 section. The crowd used to be pretty quiet and civil. Actually, for the Flyers-Caps series 2 years ago, I got club-level seats in DC for about the same price that my nosebleeds cost me in Philly. I went to 4 of the 7 games, was just when hockey was really taking off here.

Things have changed. Hockey is huge in DC. I'd put DC up with any of the big hockey towns (Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Philly, Boston, etc). Not saying its bigger than the Bell Centre, but in a few short years hockey has really taken off here.

I chalk it up to Washington-area sports fans being abject front runners. Build a winner and they will come. They lose interest if the team starts losing. In that respect, it's not like the cities mentioned above. But for now, it's ridiculous.
 
AMDZen said:
Maybe he isn't talking about the # of championships they've one but the stupid bandwagoner's in every city.

Detroit is the New England Patriots and the NY Yankees of Hockey. Because everywhere you go there are idiots that love the team simply because of how good they are right now.

I agree with him. I hate the Red Wings and all of their fans outside Detroit. Detroits a broken down POS city any way so who cares
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Says an (apparent) Avs fan?

Why not root for a team that's winning? If your team loses, or sucks (*cough Avs*) why not stop being a sore loser and root for someone else? The Wings are one of 8 teams left in the playoffs, out of 30 possible teams, thus it is more likely that your team will be out than in the playoffs.

Plus, the fans that truly root for the wings, through thick and thin (think: sucky start of season due to injury, etc.) are nothing like you are making them out to be. I'm outside Detroit, but from Detroit area, so do you hate me too?

And yes, Detroit is a broken down POS city, but still in the past 10 years we've managed to have 3 of our main sports team do consistently "well." So how's that for POS?
 
Anyone that says Detroit fans are frontrunners is insane. Most Wings fans can't help it - that team has been good for a long time now. Any Wings fan I've met has a tie to the area, too. Never met a random joe that loved them because they were winners. They do happen to be perennial winners, but that's just not why people like them.

Blue collar cities like Detroit and Philly hang on to their teams. Their fans are pretty die hard. It's a complete difference in culture from NY, DC, and the other big market teams.

There will be a few band wagon fans for every winning team, but Detroit's fan base isn't made up of any significant # of front runners in my opinion.
 
Damn, Caps are snakebitten. Halak is stopping everything!

I really need the Caps to win. 🙁

KT
 
KeithTalent said:
Damn, Caps are snakebitten. Halak is stopping everything!

I really need the Caps to win. 🙁

KT
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Caps have had 26 shots blocked and 24 shots. I wouldn't say it's for lack of effort but more that the Habs have been the most underachieving team in Montreal history during this regular season. The Caps are doing what they do and have no reason to hang their heads if they lose.
 
sandorski said:
I want Montreal to Win, but that disallowed Goal call was plain Bad.
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you are in blue ice and interfere with the goalie, you will get called. Doesn't even matter whether the contact made any diff to the goalie's ability to stop the shot.
 
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