Just say no to any and all pre-game ceremonies, including banner raisings, national anthems, monthly three star trophies, welcome back montages, and moments of silence. Just have the teams warm-up and then drop the puck, beer league style.
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Just say no to any and all pre-game ceremonies, including banner raisings, national anthems, monthly three star trophies, welcome back montages, and moments of silence. Just have the teams warm-up and then drop the puck, beer league style.
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If you're serious, I think that's lame and takes a lot of the fun out of the fan experience
But I don't think you're being serious
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I wonder if marketing people wanted to make a ceremony of it, but the GM overruled them. I wonder if the GM has power or just influence over non-hockey matters like that.
If you're serious, I think that's lame and takes a lot of the fun out of the fan experience
But I don't think you're being serious
Haha, no, I wasn't serious. The point was that banner or no banner, anthem or no anthem, there will always be something for someone to complain about...
I never said the regular season was an abject failure, I said it was overshadowed by the playoff failure.
Which is something I acknowledged, but which you have ignored...
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I pointed out as much specifically in my post, but "overshadowing" the memory is entirely different than revising it altogether. The fact is, the Flames played a very good second half—definitely not as good as the first, but also not anywhere near the debacle that some people seem to misremember. The disappointment should come exclusively from what happened in the playoffs, because the regular season—from start to finish—is rightly characterized is pretty spectacular.
At issue here is not how we should feel about the totality of the 2018–19 season, but rather how should we feel about the second most impressive Regular Season in franchise history. If you would take time to read things before spouting off, you would have recognized the point to which you responded, and my subsequent employment of a reducto ad absurdum to illustrate as much. Sadly, you missed it.
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You should criticize the text more thoroughly. Its more than a little embarrassing that I have to teach that to you.
I also said, in my text, that they won the Pacific division. They have the banner to prove it.
Yay.
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I get the disappointment of the early playoffs exit, but what was wrong with how the season ended? The Flames won top seed in the West with games to spare, and they played some excellent hockey down the stretch including a textbook road game in SJ to clinch.
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The last 5 leave a sour taste that somewhat invalidates the prior 82.
Those 82 games were to jockey for position and get the fans amped up for the playoffs.
Upon which the team promptly face-planted and went home. That being the most recent memory....yeah, overshadows a nice regular season.
If the playoffs hadnt been a complete and utter disaster then I might agree with you. But they were, and so here we are.
My reading comprehension is just fine, thanks. Since you have openly disagreed with my suggestion that the Regular Season be remembered and celebrated for what it was, then what option am I left with other than to conclude that you are content to manufacture an alternative history of the Flames's Regular Season in view of your disappointment with the Playoffs?
So, in the end my recommendation continues to be this: If you are going to be disappointed, then be disappointed about the Playoffs. I don't see how any useful purpose is served to use that frustration to exaggerate the truth about the Regular Season, which is what was taking place in the post to which I responded in the first place. My problem is with the exaggeration, not the disappointment.
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Just think, only 30 days until we have a whole new season of things to bitch about!
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Just my opinion, but the only regular season banner any team should raise is the President's trophy. I do wish that trophy was a much bigger deal but that's just not the way in most NA sports.
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I get the disappointment of the early playoffs exit, but what was wrong with how the season ended? The Flames won top seed in the West with games to spare, and they played some excellent hockey down the stretch including a textbook road game in SJ to clinch.
Just my opinion, but the only regular season banner any team should raise is the President's trophy. I do wish that trophy was a much bigger deal but that's just not the way in most NA sports.
I’d agree with this. Winning the division just seems somewhat insignificant for a banner raising. The division could be weaker, the divisions are fairly small, four teams get to raise one every year, etc.
Having the best record in the entire league, making it to the finals, and winning the Cup are all significant accomplishments. Division champions just seems like a way to add significance to the divisions themselves. I think it’d make a little more sense if they played the majority of games in-division.
I’d agree with this. Winning the division just seems somewhat insignificant for a banner raising. The division could be weaker, the divisions are fairly small, four teams get to raise one every year, etc.
Having the best record in the entire league, making it to the finals, and winning the Cup are all significant accomplishments. Division champions just seems like a way to add significance to the divisions themselves. I think it’d make a little more sense if they played the majority of games in-division.
Out of 82 games 29 are in the division, 35% of regular season games are played within the Pacific division. Its not a huge deal, but it is not totally insignificant. I look at it a similar way as Soccer does derby matches. Last season we were the best out of all of our rivals. If we can't celebrate that then the terrorists have won.
I’d agree with this. Winning the division just seems somewhat insignificant for a banner raising. The division could be weaker, the divisions are fairly small, four teams get to raise one every year, etc.
Having the best record in the entire league, making it to the finals, and winning the Cup are all significant accomplishments. Division champions just seems like a way to add significance to the divisions themselves. I think it’d make a little more sense if they played the majority of games in-division.
I also tend to agree, and in the present the most effective argument to be made for raising banners for Division winners comes from an appreciation of the tradition: Divisional banners are raised because they have always been raised in the living memory of most hockey fans. Were the League to adopt a departure from the tradition, then I would think it should also come at the expense of all the existing Divisional winning banners.
From the League's perspective, I think it makes sense for aesthetic reasons. Let's be honest: were no team to celebrate Division wins, then most buildings would have almost no banners having in the rafters. The banners fill out the building and make it a more inviting place to be. Is this enough of an excuse to keep raising them?
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I also tend to agree, and in the present the most effective argument to be made for raising banners for Division winners comes from an appreciation of the tradition: Divisional banners are raised because they have always been raised in the living memory of most hockey fans. Were the League to adopt a departure from the tradition, then I would think it should also come at the expense of all the existing Divisional winning banners.
From the League's perspective, I think it makes sense for aesthetic reasons. Let's be honest: were no team to celebrate Division wins, then most buildings would have almost no banners having in the rafters. The banners fill out the building and make it a more inviting place to be. Is this enough of an excuse to keep raising them?
To be honest, I wasn't really aware raising division bammers was a tradition. Is that true for all teams? I doubt Montreal does it.
As an aside, my favorite MLB team, the Astros, changed up their banners a couple of years ago. Whereas previously every post season team had a banner, they now have only two. A NL pennant and a World Series championship. The other post season teams have smaller plaques in a different part of the building. I kind of like that. The Astros are a team with little success over their history until recently and they're making a point of what they aspire to be.
Regardless of what they do, I hope the Flames give thought as to how things will be in the new building. I don't really feel more banners is necessarily better.