KC ISLANDERS?
by Answer Man on Mar 5, 2009 12:43 PM EST
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PrintDom, what gives? Is Wang tough enough to pull the trigger? Will the league allow it? Personally there's now way the NHL would let the franchise move. There is WAY too much tradition there. Yeah, Wang seems to be a giant nutso but this can't really happen can it? Doesn't have the whole team under contract for the next 22 years or something crazy like that? I wonder if he got Trottier to coach if that would make a difference? Can I ask more questions?
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It's old, hyped news
No, you cannot ask more questions, you have exceeded the maximum and must now take a number. :P
In short, remain calm. Things are progressing (slooooowly) with their arena deal, but some necessary steps remain. One of those steps was the filing of the draft environmental impact statement for their arena project, which included the very unshocking clause that K.C. and Newsday are pretending is. (Essentially, the statement includes the “what if the arena doesn’t happen?” scenario: In 2015, when the lease is up (or before if things look bleak), without the renovated arena the team will leave the old venue — either to K.C. or Canada or elsewhere in New York.)
So Newsday — and now K.C. — have essentially found one self-evident clause in an 18,000-page document to cry wolf about, when nothing has changed. The bastards.
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Should be “pretending is news” there in the second paragraph.
But thanks for your concern! I don’t put the chances of a move very high at all, unless the town screws up (always possible) and no other NY options open up.
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even though I agree it is of low probability
the consequence of the Isles moving to KC is too high to bear and so it has me a little worried until the deal is in the bank.
It’s funny, when I was a kid I remember thinking that the only thing I ever cared about in terms of making money was making enough to buy Islanders season tickets. fast forward to my adulthood and I manage to make my living in a city where I don’t support any sports teams at all, pro or college, with the exception of DC United. Still, we go to NY a bunch of times a year and my favourite thing about traveling there, other than seeing family of course, is going to Islanders games – my mom’s house is within walking distance of the Coliseum. So I haven’t gotten to spring for season tickets, but going to games is a way of connecting to a childhood dream.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
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Thanks for that. I totally identify with that kind of dream/childhood nostalgia connection. (And if I were in D.C. I think I’d pick United for my support, heh.) I got to fulfill that with season tickets in St. Louis, before the NBA-coveting owner spoiled things.
I see where the Lighthouse Project uncertainty makes the stakes that high, for that reason. I guess I comfort myself with the odds being (slightly?) in favor of it getting done, and knowing there’s not much I can do about it either way.
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don’t kid your self about tradition, tradition can be bought. The Baltimore Colts had tradition, so did the Cleveland Browns, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, you get my point. It’s all about money.
Giants fan from the womb to the tomb
by Jim Schmiedeberg on Mar 6, 2009 8:26 AM EST reply actions
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The NHL had no intention of blocking a move for the Pens when they were eying KC. KC offered the Pens and the Predators a brand new arena in the middle of a downtown entertainment district rent free. Most likely though, KC will again be used as leverage for a new arena deal. Much like the Pens, Predators, and Seattle Super Sonics did…
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Agreed
I fully believe the NHL is using Kansas City (Wrote about this some before).
I think with AEG’s influence and that building, K.C. may yet get a team. But if it comes to that, I suspect the NHL powers would prefer a struggling southern club relocate there rather than lose a team from the NY area. Even with the Islanders’ historic building/management/attendance woes, I imagine they look at that market and those demographics and picture $$$ when the team returns to on-ice respectability in a new building.
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