2023/2024 Trade Rumors and Speculation Thread

[Royle9]

Chicago is a fantastic city, been there many times.
Great food scene (one of the best in N.A)
Great river district
Great theatres/show/museum
2 baseball teams, cubs stadium is super nice
Great rail system to get around
Avoid south side at all costs!

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Elkyiv

What can you do there that you can't do here?

Go to a great blues club like Buddy Guy's or Kingston Mines or Blue Chicago with. Go to MLB (2 teams), NFL, Us college football. See one of the world's best art collections at the AIC. Go to Second City. River or lake cruises.

For me, just going out, it's NYC, Nashville, Chicago and Vegas. Maybe San Antonio as well.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Elkyiv

What can you do there that you can't do here?

What can you do in Calgary that you can’t do in Lethbridge?

That, but moreso.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Royle9

Chicago is a fantastic city, been there many times.
Great food scene (one of the best in N.A)
Great river district
Great theatres/show/museum
2 baseball teams, cubs stadium is super nice
Great rail system to get around
Avoid south side at all costs!

One thing to note, is that for anyone who loves professional sports, which strangely enough most professional athletes do, just about any major American city will blow a Canadian city out of the water.

When there's a big football game on in Chicago, Pittsburgh, or even Seattle, the whole city is buzzing. The bars are jammed full of people having a great time. You only really see that atmosphere, which is common in America, during a deep NHL playoff run. Toronto is slightly better, as the Raptors have some support, but its' not close to the USA.

Anybody who grew up in America as a sports fan is going to be bored to death living in a Canadian market. Telling kids that grew up in American cities playing in high end sports programs in major cities that they should just start to enjoy the outdoors isn't going to get you anywhere. Things are only going to get worse as more kids from the NCAA and the US NTDP program become a larger proportion of NHL players, which they will.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Go to a mall after 5 pm.

Take transit in the late hours and holidays.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Elkyiv

What can you do there that you can't do here?

What's the best sports bar in Calgary? That would probably not crack the top 50 (or even 100) in Chicago. Same deal with pubs, nightclubs and restaurants. No one does anything Calgary.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by blankall

What's the best sports bar in Calgary? That would probably not crack the top 50 (or even 100) in Chicago. Same deal with pubs, nightclubs and restaurants. No one does anything Calgary.

Calgary has an under-rated Restaurant scene. Several would compete with Chicago's best.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Calgary has an under-rated Restaurant scene. Several would compete with Chicago's best.

We punch above our weight, but this is too far.

[Muta]

I love Calgary very, very much and will vouch for the city wherever I can, but the food scene really is peanuts compared to many other metropolitan areas across North America. It's getting significantly better in quality and experience as the city grows, but it's got a LONG way to go - particularly in terms of number of establishments. Hell, Dundas Street in Toronto alone has as many quality restaurants, if not more, than in all of Calgary.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Number of establishments sure. I think that's a function of city size.

[GioforPM]

Metro Chicago is almost 9.5M people. It's not much of a competition.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Calgary has an under-rated Restaurant scene. Several would compete with Chicago's best.

Well Lamorne Morris likes us ! (although still puts Chicago ahead)


https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how...lamorne-morris


What surprised him when filming this season of Fargo in Calgary
It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. I thought it would be desolate. When you watch Fargo, you see the plains, the vast fields, and you’re like, Man, there’s got to be nothing to do out there. Then you get there, and people are nice. The nightlife is great. It’s one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. The restaurant scene is insane. Some of the best restaurants I've ever been to in my life are in Calgary, and people don't talk about it! At least, I’d never heard anything about Calgary. It might be the best culture and restaurant scene in Canada, and I've been all over Canada. It feels better than L.A.'s food scene. Not better than Chicago or New York, but definitely in the top five out of the places that I've been all over the world. I was thoroughly shocked at how great the restaurants were.

[Flamesfan05]

People keep forgetting for rich people, it’s totally different

There are just more options for them in big American cities. And yeah, they don’t go anywhere close to the ghetto

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by looooob

Well Lamorne Morris likes us ! (although still puts Chicago ahead)


https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how...lamorne-morris


What surprised him when filming this season of Fargo in Calgary
It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. I thought it would be desolate. When you watch Fargo, you see the plains, the vast fields, and you’re like, Man, there’s got to be nothing to do out there. Then you get there, and people are nice. The nightlife is great. It’s one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. The restaurant scene is insane. Some of the best restaurants I've ever been to in my life are in Calgary, and people don't talk about it! At least, I’d never heard anything about Calgary. It might be the best culture and restaurant scene in Canada, and I've been all over Canada. It feels better than L.A.'s food scene. Not better than Chicago or New York, but definitely in the top five out of the places that I've been all over the world. I was thoroughly shocked at how great the restaurants were.

I don't think LA has a great food scene. But Vegas does - a lot of big time chefs and also some out of the way spots. And depending on what you're into so does Nashvill and Montreal.

[Toonage]

All I know is, whoever we trade to Chicago is going to have a hell of a time.

[howard_the_duck]

Originally Posted by Muta

I love Calgary very, very much and will vouch for the city wherever I can, but the food scene really is peanuts compared to many other metropolitan areas across North America. It's getting significantly better in quality and experience as the city grows, but it's got a LONG way to go - particularly in terms of number of establishments. Hell, Dundas Street in Toronto alone has as many quality restaurants, if not more, than in all of Calgary.

Toronto ex-pat and I haven’t found even close to the same variety of food offerings, and not the same top calibre options, here in Calgary. Thai food is one that I just haven’t found anything in same realm as Toronto.

And, IMO, Toronto is far behind Chicago in regards to overall food scene. Chicago is on New York level.

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

It's got the river tours (summer), numerous really cool blues clubs, some great museums, really good zoo, etc. I don't know too many people that went to Chicago that didn't enjoy it.

haha in before someone makes any wild claims about the blues can

[Bongsong]

Originally Posted by Sec214

Give us some news please

[Harry Lime]

Originally Posted by Bongsong

Give us some news please

No.

No.

More pages about snacks in Chicago. This. Is. CP! (kicks us all into a hole)

[looooob]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

I don't think LA has a great food scene. But Vegas does - a lot of big time chefs and also some out of the way spots. And depending on what you're into so does Nashvill and Montreal.

yeah I teased my LA friends with that article- mind you they are foodies and I have had some fantastic meals with them in LA


anyways I have no major misunderstanding about where Calgary sits in the pecking order..and for sure Chicago, NYC, MTL, some of my favourite cities in the world, vegas and Nash too for what they are