2018 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Hockey • Page 150

think seattle was still looking for an arena deal before they could go all in.

 

Got it. That would have been interesting having two expansion teams instead of one. Would have been double the pain up front but now I'm doing the math on my team and wondering who the Pens are gonna lose now to another draft.

 

everything i've read has said that the arena renovations will take around two years, which may have played a major part in it.

hell, some articles hedge on if the arena will be ready in time for the 2020 season which makes me nervous af

 

i would imagine most GM's will be much smarter this time around which will make it very interesting to see what happens.

 

Columbus and Minnesota came in together in 2000 and Atlanta/Nashville came in together in 1998

the expansion rules were much different though..teams were allowed to protect one goaltender, five defensemen, and nine forwards or two goaltenders, three defensemen, and seven forwards.

 

Hm. Is that better, worse or just different than 2017? I'm still trying to get educated on front office stuff/trade stuff. Woefully ignorant in that aspect of the league.

 

thats much better for the other teams, much worse for the expansion teams

being able to protect 1 goalie, 5 DMen, and 9 forwards is 65% of your roster. Teams were protecting some real turd burgers

 

for 2017 expansion draft teams could protect:
seven forwards
three defensemen
one goaltender

or

eight skaters (forwards/defensemen)
one goaltender

previous years was:
one goaltender
five defensemen
nine forwards

or

two goaltenders
three defensemen
seven forwards

as @xbrokendownx kindly posted above.

just looking at the numbers that is a HUGE difference.

 

I feel bad for the wild, they always get close and then end up having to start allover. Maybe canes and wild owners are bffs.

 

Holy shit that's a big difference. I think I got it. Cheers, guys.

 

I'm blaming our loss on this douche. Jets got there ass kicked after showing his corpse like face on the jumbo tron.

 

I'm a little late to the conversation but yeah, Seattle currently has no arena suitable for an NHL team. If they did, they probably would have been given a team when Vegas was or Seattle just would have gotten it instead of Vegas flat out since the NHL has had a hard on for Seattle for some time now.

Key Arena in its current state was not suitable for hockey due to various sight line issues from various spots in the arena and also the fact that it's just simply an old and outdated arena. Chris Hansen had been fighting to build a new arena down in the SoDo part of Seattle (where the other stadiums are at) and came dangerously close to getting final approval to do so but then the worst city council in the country (and I say that for various reasons) nixed it.

Long story short, another group stepped up and decided to gut and re-do Key Arena to fit the standard of what the NHL wants. Key Arena is hosting an NBA pre-season game on 10/6/2018 and then the gutting remodel begins the following week. Everything that I've read seems consistent with the work being done by Summer 2020, more than time for the team to be ready to play when the season begins in October 2020.

That all being said, the Key Arena renderings from what the OVG group is planning to do all look incredible and I'm pretty stoked about it despite Key Arena just being in an absolute horse shit part of the city in terms of public transportation and traffic in general. That will be an absolute nightmare.

 

Been to Seattle a few times and I liked the spot where Safeco and CenturyLink are. I never went around where Key Arena is.

 

i remember going to a few b-ball games at Key Arena as a kid and my dad always joking that he hoped the tickets came with some muscle relaxers and or Tums to deal with the traffic headache getting in and out of there. i don't remember it much since i was 10 or so but have always heard it's a headache to say the least.

 

Seattle has a light rail system that is a single track system, it has 7 (I believe) stops in the downtown metro area, none of which are at the Seattle Center (Key Arena/Space Needle).

People are going to have to take the light rail to Westlake Center (which is basically the downtown hub/shopping area) and either walk a mile and a half to Key Arena or transfer to the monorail at Westlake which is archaic in it's own right (Seattle Center Monorail - Wikipedia).

That is the best alternative to driving into Queen Anne (where Key Arena is located) and trying to find parking which is already minimal and then fight traffic to get out of the city on the one major road leading out of the part of town. It's going to be bad lol

They have a light rail expansion planned for the arena area which will be a major help but that it's scheduled to open until.......2035 lol.

 

Yea, I was doing some research on their transit recently and saw a lot of articles about How they can fix it. Why do you think the transit is so bad compared to most big cities?

 

Many reasons...Up until the last 5-10 years, Seattle didn't really have a major need for a transit system that rivals some larger cities but with the recent tech takeover within the Seattle area, local officials quickly found out not only how badly they needed it but how far behind they really were. The other issue is cost. There has been a ton of bickering about how to pay for it and it's still currently an ongoing issue. A levy was passed last year for the light rail expansion that applies the costs to come from car tabs. Car tabs in the area are now based off the MSRP of your vehicle (not its current worth).

Basically, just to give you an example. My two vehicles cost roughly $220 previous to this levy to register per year and now this calendar year, they are $1150. All for money for the transportation expansion which is just an absolute mess as much of the light rail expansion won't even be done for 20 more years.

 

I’m not superstitious (narrator: he is) but I have yet to watch the first and second period of a game this series that the Lightning have won so I’m hardcore avoiding and refreshing Twitter this evening

 

I've missed the last three games due to traveling so I'm parked on my couch with the TV on mute ready for this shitshow to start and trying desperately not to hurl. Go Bolts!

 

The guy on my broadcast just said that the team who counts first has an advantage. No shit, Sherlock.

 

Woo! Go Caps!

 

Ovi wont be able to do that to MAF

 

Nbc always pointing out the too many men by the caps

 

Wow this is stupid guys

 

Hope the Caps can pull it off, rest of this game should be a lot of fun