Posted on 02/18/2005 11:35:24 AM PST by Alberta's Child
I've never watched a game on HDTV, but from what I'm told it is much better than regular TV. I still think you'd have to love the game enough to watch it in the first place to appreciate the difference (and I surely do).
Screw SportsCenter . . . I plant myself right here on FreeRepublic whenever a breaking story like this unfolds. LOL!
Oh yeah, why bother investing in the state's largest city?...let's just keep building condo's and strip malls over the last remaining square foot of wetlands in NJ until there's nothing left. I guess you'd rather see the Devils and Nets leave the state huh?..some facts, the Arena will cost $300 million to build. Of that $300 million, Jeff Vanderbeek is putting up $100 million of his own money to get this thing off the ground. He's investing in Newark because he and the city know it will eventually pay itself off, at which point it becomes a major source of revenue and jobs for NJ's largest city(and by the way, it's not just an sports arena, it's an office complex/entertainment venue as well). But then again, I guess he's just another one of those 46 year old retired investment bankers with $100 million to throw away, what the heck does he know about business??
I'll type it as they say it.
You are added!
I've heard the same thing -- I'll have to check that out if there's some way I can do that.
I still like Dino Cicarelli's "I can't believe I shook his freakin' hand" remark. And I think that was even after Roy game Dino the "cup check" for standing in his crease.
Gretz, and Mario are there. 45 million dollar cap. A combined effort of players, owners, agents and GMs (nobody mentioned Bettman or Goodenow). Owners were mad about take-it or leave-it, thought they could get a deal at 45.
Possibility of deal but no hockey mentioned by a few.
The taxpayers have been "investing in the state's largest city" for decades now, and the place is a freakin' dump. The school system is a disaster, and outside of a small area downtown there is hardly any viable private business of any consequence. If it weren't for subsidized institutions like colleges and hospitals (and now an arena, too), the place would be no different than Camden.
To top it off, the City somehow manages to get away with collecting property taxes based on property assessments that date back to the 1950s.
The city's only real claim to "fame" is that it made the front page of the Wall Street Journal during their last mayoral election a couple of years ago -- under a banner headline that referred to Sharpe James as "Newark's Mayor Mugabe."
I'm telling you . . . they ought to make Wayne Gretzky the commissioner of this league. He's got some good business sense, has simple roots in Canada, and brings instant credibility to a bargaining table -- with ALL sides.
Anybody besides me remember Peter Puck? Back when one of the major networks tried to broadcast hockey on Sundays...Most people couldn't understand offsides or icing, so they came up with this dumb cartoon to explain it! Does any FReeper out there have a Peter Puck clip?
I think Gretzky is too nice to be commish. There's a certain level of a-hole necessary for the job. Maybe Messier, he likes living in NYC. Anyway it's gotta be somebody that knows the difference between a blue line and blue ball.
GAME ON!!!! WOOOOHOOOO!
Let's go RANGERS....eh?!!
LOL!!
That would be the funniest thing ever. After the Rangers do everything 1 team can to caused this situation with their insane pay, then the fire sale last year, for them to win the Cup with a CHEAP team would just crack me up.
The "taxpayers" have been "investing" in a lot of things that turn out to be a disaster, most of which we probably aren't even aware of. And that's exactly why I support this project, it's being largely funded by private interests. In fact, that's the only reason it's going forward. It's not being managed by corrupt government bureaucrats, it's being managed by Vanderbeek and the Devils. Do you work for the NJSEA?
Oh come on....it ain't just the Rangers...
The Red Wings had a roster salary last year of what, $80 mill? How about the Flyers?
Big market teams are the only ones that can take players at ridiculous salaries that were agreed to by OTHER TEAMS...like the Caps.
The Rangers can make money at $75 mill payroll...so what?
The "move" to shut down the arena started a long time ago, the constituency was nothing more than a handful of Bergen county government thugs that are worried about losing their Meadowlands kickbacks. When Vanderbeek bought the team and proposed the move to Newark, he did so under the assumption there would be a lock-out. The arena's going forward, demolition is scheduled to begin at the proposed site next month.
http://student-voices.org/news/index.php3?NewsID=18362
This is one fan who is sick of getting his chain yanked by these ... gentlemen.
I have decided to boycott the NHL till these a$$hats apologize to every single hard-core fan they have screwed over with their 3/4 of a season BS sessions.
My theory is; no state that cannot produce snow & ice; ie, Florida, California...should be allowed to have an NHL team! Once they let Disney own a team, the NHL went to hell in a handbag. Poor Lord Stanley...i'm really going to miss hockey.
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