2022-23 NHL Season

[havana]

Went to the game vs the panthers last night. Never seen the tank so empty. Reminded me of the colesium at an As game. It really sucked cuz I took my in laws for their first hockey game and was hyping up the atmosphere of a packed tank and we didn’t get that. But just like an as game the fans that were there brought it still. It just wasn’t as loud as it could be. Still more noise than at a full coyotes game. They got to see a come from behind to tie, and ejection for a check to the head, and a shoot out and loved their first hockey game. Too bad the sharks didn’t win

yeah after so many years of good squads and being in contention, we're probably still at the start of our rebuild cycle.
maybe I should write to Goodell, Manfred, Silver, and Bettman to pitch them on the merits of the DPL.

DPL?  They call it The Tank for a reason.

Jim

The Sharks can't tank to extremes because they know the market has too much competition for the entertainment dollar.
They have to at least try and put out a somewhat entertaining product, and if they lose, well they lose but they at least need to compete hard.
(no 60-50-50 type FA pickups on all 4 forward lines)

DPL achieves the same goal, just through slightly different means.  Pro sports currency is actual cash, Weaver currency is draft picks/assets.

[nynukes]

Went to the game vs the panthers last night. Never seen the tank so empty. Reminded me of the colesium at an As game. It really sucked cuz I took my in laws for their first hockey game and was hyping up the atmosphere of a packed tank and we didn’t get that. But just like an as game the fans that were there brought it still. It just wasn’t as loud as it could be. Still more noise than at a full coyotes game. They got to see a come from behind to tie, and ejection for a check to the head, and a shoot out and loved their first hockey game. Too bad the sharks didn’t win

yeah after so many years of good squads and being in contention, we're probably still at the start of our rebuild cycle.
maybe I should write to Goodell, Manfred, Silver, and Bettman to pitch them on the merits of the DPL.

DPL?  They call it The Tank for a reason.

Jim

The Sharks can't tank to extremes because they know the market has too much competition for the entertainment dollar.
They have to at least try and put out a somewhat entertaining product, and if they lose, well they lose but they at least need to compete hard.
(no 60-50-50 type FA pickups on all 4 forward lines)

DPL achieves the same goal, just through slightly different means.  Pro sports currency is actual cash, Weaver currency is draft picks/assets.

The Sharks needed to start their rebuild a few years ago but kept things together with duct tape because of that mentality of needing to stay competitive in the Bay Area marketplace.  It still got the mail to the same place.  Like Eric said, the Tank is looking like an A’s game these days and it’s not going to get better anytime soon.  The NHL is much more dependent on gate revenue than other leagues as well.

Unpopular opinion but I think the Sharks would have been much better off to recognize what they had a few years ago and start the rebuild at an appropriate time rather than get stuck in what looks like a dangerous extended period of fan apathy that they’re in now.

Jim