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Post by mazman on Mar 26, 2011 16:14:15 GMT -5
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Post by mazman on Mar 26, 2011 16:16:35 GMT -5
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"The game of hockey in Arizona is just fifteen years old"
Um... What about the WHA Phoenix Roadrunners? Gimme a break... this is actually a very horrible article
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Post by tiltwheel on Mar 26, 2011 16:21:17 GMT -5
quote "The game of hockey in Arizona is just fifteen years old" Um... What about the WHA Phoenix Roadrunners? Gimme a break... this is actually a very horrible article IHL not WHA. |
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Post by Ric O. on Mar 26, 2011 16:24:01 GMT -5
WHA had the Phoenix Roadrunners too.
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Post by mazman on Mar 26, 2011 16:24:11 GMT -5
quote "The game of hockey in Arizona is just fifteen years old" Um... What about the WHA Phoenix Roadrunners? Gimme a break... this is actually a very horrible article IHL not WHA. They started in the WHA and lasted from 1974 to 1977 |
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Post by inkymarx on Mar 26, 2011 16:24:58 GMT -5
quote "The game of hockey in Arizona is just fifteen years old" Um... What about the WHA Phoenix Roadrunners? Gimme a break... this is actually a very horrible article IHL not WHA. Actually it was WHA, IHL, PHL, CHL,and ECHL..... And they failed every single time. |
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Post by ducky75 on Mar 26, 2011 16:25:22 GMT -5
Professional hockey has been played in Arizona for 44 years - how is the game just 15 years old?
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Post by mazman on Mar 26, 2011 16:28:05 GMT -5
Professional hockey has been played in Arizona for 44 years - how is the game just 15 years old? This article is so bad...No facts at all. I laughed at the end. |
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Post by ducky75 on Mar 26, 2011 16:36:12 GMT -5
Actually it was WHA, IHL, PHL, CHL,and ECHL..... And they failed every single time. Actually they started in the WHL in 1967, then went to the WHA. |
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Post by smokey on Mar 26, 2011 16:42:19 GMT -5
"No one in Canada or in other NHL markets can probably fathom what it would be like to have something that has been a part of their lives for so long just disappear. That is what the game of hockey in Arizona is facing right now."
WTF! Screw you buddy!
Yes, because high school and college level hockey will just disappear without NHL being there. LOL
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Post by athf on Mar 26, 2011 16:42:25 GMT -5
It's not an actual article, just a glorified blog guy that has some credentials to cover the Coyotes.....file this one under op-ed pieces.
Actually, file it under poorly researched op-ed pieces if I'm being fully accurate...
Edit: Am I the only one that giggled when I saw that their junior hockey program in Arizona used to be called PF Chang's Tier 1 Hockey? I get that it's no different than Timbits and the like, just the juxtaposition of hockey and chinese food made me laugh...
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Post by wagner3 on Mar 26, 2011 16:49:31 GMT -5
why do they need an NHL team to embrace youth hockey? other than that: who cares if hockey is growing or not in AZ...it's not like they don't have many other sports to enjoy...i could care less if hockey takes off and becomes popular in AZ, India, Mexico or Tahiti...this is not like a religion where salvation supposedly is at stake  |
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Post by Gust Avacados on Mar 26, 2011 16:52:42 GMT -5
Youth hockey? In Arizona? Give me a forkin' break... |
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Post by jm440 on Mar 26, 2011 16:54:31 GMT -5
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Post by ducky75 on Mar 26, 2011 17:01:57 GMT -5
Funny - the authour doesn't know as much about hockey in his state as we do, such as the history of the Roadrunners (he said they have not been around in 30 years while the most recent incarnation left in 1997) and that if the Coyotes leave there won't be professional hockey in Arizona, completely overlooking the Arizona Sundogs of the ECHL.
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Post by ReJ40 on Mar 26, 2011 17:16:43 GMT -5
Youth hockey isn't that much of a deal in Arizona. Mind you I have never lived there, a quick search shows that, including the two Coyotes homes, there are only 20 ice surfaces in the entire state (population 6.3 million).
In the 1-hour radius from my hometown (I would assume population ~250,000), there are 24 ice surfaces.
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Post by calgaryflames on Mar 26, 2011 17:24:49 GMT -5
i didnt even read it but just saw the title and laughed
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Post by canadiensfan on Mar 26, 2011 17:34:52 GMT -5
Youth hockey isn't that much of a deal in Arizona. Mind you I have never lived there, a quick search shows that, including the two Coyotes homes, there are only 20 ice surfaces in the entire state (population 6.3 million). In the 1-hour radius from my hometown (I would assume population ~250,000), there are 24 ice surfaces. Yeah, where I live, there's an arena for roughly every 9-10 thousand people. |
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Post by JimmyMann on Mar 26, 2011 17:36:56 GMT -5
Doan can stay and run the youth hockey programs when the Coyotes leave.
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Post by enarwpg on Mar 26, 2011 17:38:50 GMT -5
It's not an actual article, just a glorified blog guy that has some credentials to cover the Coyotes.....file this one under op-ed pieces. Actually, file it under poorly researched op-ed pieces if I'm being fully accurate... Edit: Am I the only one that giggled when I saw that their junior hockey program in Arizona used to be called PF Chang's Tier 1 Hockey? I get that it's no different than Timbits and the like, just the juxtaposition of hockey and chinese food made me laugh...Yup, in Canada when watching kids play "outdoors" and you get cold you run to Tim's and get coffe for yourself and the other parents..... In Arizona watching the kids in the indoor rink, you go and grab some lemon chicken and egg rolls..... |
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