[News] Ottawa Senators to make 'significant' hockey announcement at 2:30 p.m. ET today

[Firebot]

Originally Posted by Jackpot_Smooth

Big mid-August Hockey announcement. The season cannot start soon enough...

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Originally Posted by cecil terwilliger

changing their name to the roughriders.

fyp

[TheAlpineOracle]

Originally Posted by RM14

What meaning did they ever have?

They used to be kind of a special event. I actually really enjoyed the first couple, but they started having them in every year in multiple locations, I stopped caring at all. There's nothing unique to it anymore.

[GoJetsGo]

Headline: Phaneuf promoted to being in charge of dressing-room radio

[Bourque's Twin]

Wideman to Ottawa

[shadowlord]

Originally Posted by Bourque's Twin

Wideman to Ottawa

Don't they already have a Wideman?

[flamesfan1297]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

They saved a ton of money on Arena and player insurance by switching to Geico?

Geico can save you 15% or more on car insurance. Said in a little Gecko voice

[saXon]

So...I'm guessing this significantly didn't happen today?

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by saXon

So...I'm guessing this significantly didn't happen today?

Alfredsson jersey to be retired

[dobbles]

Originally Posted by RM14

What meaning did they ever have?

In the states I think the New Years game was initially a great marketing asset. So many people I know would watch that (at least casually maybe not the whole game or anything) that don't watch hockey in general. It was a great PR tool for going after the casual fans. Additionally, when they were scarce events, I think it allowed teams in the involved markets to go after casual fans in the hype buildup to the event.

Now, they are so overused that they lost pretty much all their meaning. I think the casual fan in the states went from 'oh cool an outside hockey game' to 'oh they're doing that again?!?!' in a few years.

Personally, I was always in favor of doing 1 game every other year. I felt like that was exclusive enough to make it cool while not being too far apart. Even yearly isn't the worst. But the moment they went to multiple games a year, the idea was done.

[Buff]

Tough crowd. If the Flames actually retired jersey numbers, and they announced that they are retiring Iginla's jersey, there would be some excitement amongst the Flames fans.