05-26-2016, 12:28 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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Wow:
http://deadspin.com/the-nhl-threaten...dnt-1778925655
The NHL Threatened To Fine The Lightning If They Didn't Shut Down Their Watch Party
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The Tampa Bay Lighting hosted a very well-attended viewing party on Sunday for Game 5 of their Eastern Conference Finals series with Pittsburgh. Thousands went to the public showing (around 8,000 attended an analogous event last year), and the team had planned another official party for tonight’s Game 7, only to cancel it yesterday afternoon and encourage fans to head to a different, unofficial event.
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The NHL told Deadspin that the Lightning were only allowed to host one official event per series, and that they’d already used up their slot on the Game 5 party. But the Sharks and Blues have each hosted multiple parties during the Western Conference Finals, and sources tell us that the NHL and NBC pressured the team to cancel tonight’s event because of worries about low TV ratings.
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05-26-2016, 12:31 PM
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#443
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Vancouver
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F*** off NHL. You finally have people in Florida interested in hockey and now you;re going to try and say their team can't host a huge party for a game 7 that could end in a Cup birth (for the second year in a row) because you want a few extra thousand people watching the TV?
Seriously, f*** off.
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05-26-2016, 12:36 PM
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#444
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Franchise Player
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Well NBC pays the bills so I see where they are coming from.
Terrible optics though.
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05-26-2016, 12:38 PM
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#445
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Kelowna
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What a ####ing joke
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05-26-2016, 12:47 PM
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#446
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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And shutting down the parties would do what? Add maybe 0.01 to the total rating? NHL is often it's own worst enemy at trying to grow the game.
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05-26-2016, 12:54 PM
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#447
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Franchise Player
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It is dumb, something like this could actually gain fans. Now they will end up losing a few fickle ones instead.
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05-26-2016, 12:57 PM
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#448
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Springfield Penitentiary
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lol because of ratings. NBC you bunch of morons.
It is almost as if they don't understand that having Chicago, LA and NY in the east/west finals the last few years don't help the ratings because they are bigger markets. Duh SJ vs Stl and Pit vs TB will be lower ya bunch of morons!
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05-26-2016, 12:58 PM
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#449
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Franchise Player
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Pens > Bolts
Sharks > Pens
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05-26-2016, 04:32 PM
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#450
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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bah fake account
presser soon from Cooper about what is expected to be Stamkos
edit: haha
Dan Rosen @drosennhl
Cooper: "Don't ask about the lineup at all. Questions about Game 7 only."
Last edited by sureLoss; 05-26-2016 at 04:35 PM.
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05-26-2016, 05:06 PM
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#451
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Franchise Player
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Showed up with the team.
Playing in warm up soccer game.
I say he is in.
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05-26-2016, 05:30 PM
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#452
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Scoring Winger
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As for me and my house "we are thunder"...Go Bolts!
[SPOILER ]  [/SPOILER ]
Last edited by jeffporfirio; 05-26-2016 at 05:37 PM.
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05-26-2016, 05:31 PM
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#453
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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Sounds like he's in, not confirmed yet. Crazy.
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05-26-2016, 05:35 PM
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#454
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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Elliotte Friedman @FriedgeHNIC
Stamkos in hallway for warmup
and now he is taking the pre-game warmup
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05-26-2016, 05:39 PM
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#455
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Franchise Player
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Here's a direct quote from Cooper:
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Originally Posted by Jon Cooper
Stamkos is in the lineup
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(It's possible I may have taken that out of context)
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05-26-2016, 05:48 PM
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#456
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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If only the NHL was the WWE. Stamkos would take off his Lightning jersey, put on a Pens jersey and start taking line rushes with Crosby.
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05-26-2016, 05:54 PM
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#457
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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Stamkos is only playing tonight to show Phil Kessel who he could've had as his number one centre if he stayed in Toronto.
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05-26-2016, 06:18 PM
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#458
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Vancouver
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Hughson constantly talks about matchups and changes and it bothers me.
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05-26-2016, 06:28 PM
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#459
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: YYC
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Stamkos gets his first look on the PP? Watch him pot one here
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05-26-2016, 06:47 PM
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#460
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Franchise Player
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Letang needs to settle TF down
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