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by J.J. from Kansas on 10/26/11 at 08:24 AM ET
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Another Perspective on Herm 2 Hockeytown
by J.J. from Kansas on 03/29/10 at 07:16 AM ET
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The Herm 2 Hockeytown weekend has finally come and gone and everybody is no doubt left with a ton of great memories and fantastic feelings about what the hockey community has accomplished in committing to this undertaking.
If it’s possible, I want to make sure you feel even better about what, exactly, everybody accompllished, even if they only donated money and didn’t join the get together. Heck, even if you donated money and cheered for the Wild to run over the Red Wings, I want you to know that I can’t thank you enough for what you have done for somebody.
As you no doubt know, the H2H donation drive reached the amount needed to bring Guilherme from Brazil pretty quickly; from there, all donations went to the Childrens Hospital of Michigan. I donated with little more than a nebulous knowledge that what I was doing for a good cause.
This week, I got to learn first-hand just how much of a good cause it is.
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MMike89, You Out There? Time to Pony Up
by J.J. from Kansas on 11/22/09 at 10:53 AM ET
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Because I have a long memory, a well-developed sense of schadenfreude, and a bit of pent up anger of Niklas Kronwall’s injury last night, I want to point you all back to a conversation back on October the 9th that took place after the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-4 in a game that featured a scrum in the final minutes during which Scott Hartnell allegedly bit Kris Letang’s finger.
The post can be found here.
Here is the particular exchange I want to point out between myself and a Flyers fan named MMike89. Mike begins by responding to a Penguins fan calling him jealous of their cup success:
MMike89 on 10/09/09 at 12:46 PM ET says:
“That was last year douche bag… not even the flyers would lose to the coyotes though… nice try”
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Tags: Philadelphia+Flyers, Phoenix+Coyotes, Pittsburgh+Penguins, Rubbing+it+In, Stupid+Wagers,
Kansas City Didn’t Fail The Islanders
by J.J. from Kansas on 09/23/09 at 10:24 AM ET
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Last night the Los Angeles Kings and the New York Islanders met for a preseason game in Kansas City’s Sprint Center. As reported on the main page, Jim Baumbach seems to think that, with attendance just below 10,000 (around 9,700) in an 18,000 seat arena, Kansas City hockey fans missed a large opportunity to show the Islanders and the Town of Hempstead that they were serious about wanting a hockey team. Sorry, Mr. Baumbach, but our poor showing is your team’s fault, not our city’s.
First off, this isn’t our first dance with a team that wants to take us to the prom to make his girlfriend at home jealous. We fell for it hook, line, and sinker when Mario Lemieux and the Penguins used similar tactics to get the hometown crowd motivated to build a new arena for their team. So we went out and bought a sexy $275 Million dress and tarted ourselves up for a team that likely would have never been allowed to move out of Pittsburgh in the first place. Don’t blame us for being a little more demure and blocking off sections of seats when we hear the exact same words out of another team’s mouth. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I’m very happy with the attendance numbers from last night’s game. It shows that there’s enough hockey-starved fans in Kansas City that we may just be able to support a team after all (something of which I’m still not wholly convinced), but not so excited as to horribly frighten the Town of Hempstead back home that we’re a threat. Tell me, what happens if 17,000 people show up to that game? Does Kansas City get any closer to having the Islanders move here? I don’t think they do. I believe that a very large turnout would only serve to scare people into getting the Lighthouse Project passed. The best thing those thousands of other Kansas City hockey fans could have done is to have either stayed home or gone out and enjoyed another wonderful pitching performance by Cy Young candidate Zack Greinke.
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Tags: Charles+Wang, Islanders, Jim+Baumbach, Kansas+City, Lighthouse+Project,
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