Official 2022 Lord Stanley Cup Playoffs Thread
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murksiderock
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Yeah I wasn't talking the original Hornets, I was talking their return in '14. I was living in Charlotte when they returned and I get the reasons why. They have a solid following in the city but it isn't as strong as I'd expected, and it isn't stronger than The Canes are here...
Raleigh could support the Hornets and in an alternate reality where there was ever serious progression towards Raleigh needing an arena to land them, I think it'd happen. I've also lived in Memphis and the Grizzlies have been there for 21 years as a basketball-first city with the Tigers being the legacy draw in town, they are HUGE in Memphis. New Orleans has supported two different basketball franchises in the last 20 years with the Saints being a bigger draw and New Orleans City being a major domestic tourism magnet....
Living in both Charlotte first and Raleigh the last three years, Raleigh is a basketball city on every level. Prep/AAU, to of course college, and even pro, without an NBA team here there's major basketball discussion and following. Charlotte is opposite, it's a football city from the youth up. The Hornets are now middle of the pack in attendance which is a plus for them, but I have no doubt they'd draw better here, no doubt at all...
Its all a hypothetical and I appreciate and understand your points made!
Yo that was a nice goal.
Bruh hit that bytch so.hard at the goalie he couldn't do nothing with it
How did yall become hockey heads? Especially you Port being from Alabama lol. First of all are all of you black, and what's the black following like in your hometowns? Gotta ask, @Regular_P was silently white for years on here and I didn't know, gotta go in the archives to see if he dropped any n-bombs (I'm kidding P)...
Now that I've even begun following hockey on the most casual of levels, it's interesting to me to see black folk who are into it. I'd assume there are more black followers in the Northeast than anywhere else because of hockey's base up north and Canada, but I lived in the Northeast before too as I mentioned upthread (Elmira, then Albany NY). Again I wasn't seeking out black fans then and it was a decade ago, but I do know brothers weren't randomly discussing hockey the way we talked about other sports...
It's just interesting to me! Oh yeah Cabes are trash, is there any precedent in recent history of a team being so Jekyll and Hyde in home-to-road performance?
DANKTHRONE
Pro
After watching a bunch of soccer the fans in North American sports are so weak. Crowd in Edmonton should be one of the best in the league but they are pretty dead up 2-0
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I was told McDavid had no help though........
You gonna act like their one line equals Tampa or Colorado's entire teams?
This is why the playoff format stinks, 1st round is usually good because of the matchups. But leads to some not so good 2nd round series like we got this year. Battle of Alberta I thought would be a 7 game classic the way it was hyped. So far, it’s been Oilers domination outside of Game 1
Technically, I guess the '93 Habs were probably a one line team (Damphousse, Muller, and Bellows)
, but let's be honest, that run was 99% Patrick Roy 
One goal game now.
Calgary has a better overall team. It's been inexcusable how they've been getting waxed.
PortCityProphet
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I wouldn't call myself a hockey fan persay. I dont keep up with it like that but I do like watching it i find it exciting in the playoffs.
How I got put on is kinda funny.
It started with the Mighty Ducks movies it was my 1st introduction to it. And as a yut I had some plastic fisher price hockey sticks. So me and my best friend would put on some socks and slide round the floor shooting a little squishy ball into my open closet as the net
so it seemed fun and also here in Mobile we had a minor league hockey team called the mobile Mystics and I dont think I ever went to a game but they were all we had round here at the time and that led me to playing a NHL game on Playstation (the avalanche were my team on that game shoutout to my nikkas Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, Patrick Roy and Adam Foote. Also big ups to my breh Jerome Iginla used to knock the shyt outta folks with him on that game 
) . Not to mention Rocket Power being my shyt and they played street hockey.So all of that kinda kept me intrigued about it.
I never saw a game in person tho and actually grew to be able to watch it until I was in Pensacola and I had to go shoot a game for work. And thats when I realized how beautiful the game really is to watch. Trying to keep up with the puck and action with a camera was a challenge and it became my 2nd favorite sport to shoot after football. It showed me that hockey is a combination of so many other sports, the up and down pace of bball, the physicality of football, a strategy and some rules similar to soccer. All this while on ice
Plus the atmosphere of a hockey game is lit. Its redneck than a muafukka not gon lie but if you can convince another black person to go with you I can guarantee you gon have fun.
I dont know another brotha who follows it but I dont let that shyt creep into my mind.
So thats kinda my relationship with hockey.
Of course Flames score 2 quick goals to make my point look a bit premature