I don’t know anything about how hockey works in terms of expansion teams and that, but they’ve been very competitive to very good their entire, brief existence. People around here are pretty into the team. At least they’re into buying and wearing their swag.
It’s cool/weird that Las Vegas is the northernmost city of the four Stanley Cup fianlists.
They do an expansion draft for each team, and each team:
NHL teams can protect seven forwards, three defensemen and one goalie, or eight skaters (forwards/defensemen) and one goalie, under the following conditions."
So you’ll get some decent players, and can build a fairly competitive roster of mid level players and guys that make big money teams are trying to move.
It makes for an interesting roster makeup.
I took my son to a Panthers game when he was maybe two. He lasted about a single period. We had great seats, first row of the upper deck, 30 yard line or so. I paid $8 a ticket.
I find it odd that the Carolina team plays in Raleigh. Why didn’t they play in Charlotte? Hockey was quite popular in North Carolina in the 70’s, a number of cities had professional teams.
Quite possibly because 80% of the population of Raleigh is from New York and Massachusetts. I don’t know how well they draw, but it’s a city of northern transplants.
Bean for the Stars ties it at 3-3 with 1:53 to go.
I’m not sure I can make it through 4 overtimes like last night.
I didn’t watch that game last night. I’ve seen a couple of 3OT games. They were intense as fuck. Like an 18 inning post season baseball game.
Boom, Vegas wins!
That didn’t take too long.
That was a good goal.
He literally shot it into the back of the goalie’s leg hoping that he’d kick the puck into the net. Live, I had no idea what the hell was going on, but eventually it dawned on me that he did that deliberately.
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Poor Otter was in full scramble mode. He defense just stood there watching when the puck went behind the net, and he had no help when he was pushing back to the post.
Ridiculous: Everton scores at 8:55 into 9 minutes of stoppage time to salvage a point against Wolves. That may be enough to keep them up.
Arsenal’s loss to Nottingham would clinch the title for City, yes?
Correct. And clinch Forest’s place in the Prem next season.
All eyes on the bottom of the table next week.
Two from Everton, Leeds and Leicester will be relegated. That’s a lot of big names.
A long way from that magical title
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That shithead is my partner Kara’s boss (she’s his Director of Viticulture).
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The NBA front office has clearly issued an edict that the Lakers will not go down 3-0. The officiating makes the balls-and-strikes bullshit that we’ve been lamenting look positively competent.
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