buh bye Hempstead, hello Brooklyn! Long Island really screwed the pooch on this one.
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Well technically Brooklyn is part of long island.
Here's the number one thing against them. Their fanbase is deeply rooted in LI. They are not going to poach Rangers fans as they are as die hard as they come. Will they sell well in Brooklyn is the huge question mark.
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team name will remain New York Islanders, says owner Charles Wang.
move comes in 2015.
Long Island is broke, and Nassau County voters felt they couldn't afford to build Wang an arena.finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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Originally posted by Roto Rooter View PostWell technically Brooklyn is part of long island.
Here's the number one thing against them. Their fanbase is deeply rooted in LI. They are not going to poach Rangers fans as they are as die hard as they come. Will they sell well in Brooklyn is the huge question mark.I'm unconsoled I'm lonely, I am so much better than I used to be.
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Originally posted by Judge Jude View Postteam name will remain New York Islanders, says owner Charles Wang.
move comes in 2015.
Long Island is broke, and Nassau County voters felt they couldn't afford to build Wang an arena.
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I think Wang for now is hoping to keep as much of his fan base as possible taking the LIRR, so why tick them off with a name change? But he can always change his mind.
Yes, a couple of years ago the Nets reconfigured the arena design because they had $ issues and did not plan on bringing on an NHL team. So on one end you can't have that many seats. Seating capacity would be 14,500 for hockey, although NHL Commish Bettman today said they were trying to get to 15K - that would match Winnipeg as league's smallest.
Isles have great TV deal with MSG, which needs them because they lost Yankees and Nets years ago. They have to have enough programming to force rival operators like Time Warner and Comcast to pay big bucks to carry the channel. TV is why Isles in 14.5K capacity in Brooklyn as 2nd tenant is still better than moving out of the region.finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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Originally posted by Roto Rooter View PostThat seems incredibly dumb and par for the course with Wang. How can you not cash in on the Brooklyn thing? Better off trying something new with a Brooklyn themed team rather than status quo with the lowly NY Islanders moniker. How about the Brooklyn Fuggedaboutit's?I'm unconsoled I'm lonely, I am so much better than I used to be.
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"there's no way in hell a Rangers fan is going to become an Islanders fan."
well, hundreds of thousands of such new allegiances happened in the early 1980s, but there was a special reason for that.
coincidentally, there were more Mets fans than Yankees fans in NYC in the mid-1980s.finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84
SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
C Stallings 2, Casali 1
1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1
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Originally posted by Roto Rooter View PostThat seems incredibly dumb and par for the course with Wang. How can you not cash in on the Brooklyn thing? Better off trying something new with a Brooklyn themed team rather than status quo with the lowly NY Islanders moniker. How about the Brooklyn Fuggedaboutit's?Originally posted by Kevin SeitzerWe pinch ran for Altuve specifically to screw over Mith's fantasy team.
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Originally posted by BuckyBuckner View PostI read that the NHL forced them to keep the Islanders name, not sure about the NY part, but I would assume its as JJ said, not to piss off the Long Island fans. This way they can say they are just moving to a new stadium, it's not a location move, but it's possible they will pick up some Brooklyn fans, but they'd have to be new to hockey cause there's no way in hell a Rangers fan is going to become an Islanders fan.Originally posted by Kevin SeitzerWe pinch ran for Altuve specifically to screw over Mith's fantasy team.
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