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NOS2Go4Me,Apr 9 2007, 10:44 AM Wrote:

Frost__2001,Apr 9 2007, 10:41 AM Wrote:who cares what they do, I mean really the TML's are one of the top grossing team out there for products, Tickets & merchandizing, not to mention for ad campains, so regardless of how they play near the end, so long as they get into the finals like they do, and blow it at the end like they always do, They have made their money.

Reality is that public & fans will never be the wiser to that fact, and keep buying into the "they'll do it next year" & what fan has never said this one "leaf's all the way" or "Go Leafs Go". A theory I heard is, that they don't have to win the Stanley Cup ever again, so long as they remain the in the top grossing teams on the NHL.
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What about all the good they do in the community? All of that trickles down you know. Lower leagues emulate what they see, and even so far as in the NOJHL where the North Bay Skyhawks bring healthy snacks to the schools for kids to teach them about healthy eating. They're not forced to, they CHOOSE to.

People do this by CHOICE. They CHOOSE to spend all that cash themselves. Just like we mod cars to crazy levels, they follow their teams. Heck, most of the major seats at the ACC are purchased by companies and not individuals.

A part of me will always be dyed "blue". That's not going to change. What needs to stop is the bitching by folks who really don't care and who really don't seem to be the ones spending the massive amounts of money.

f***. Enough is enough. The Leafs lost, the Habs lost, the Ottawa Subsidies are doomed and the only guys with half a chance are the Flames and the Canucks.
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NOS, I can understand that you are a fan, but you have to look at it as a realist.

I've been a Wings fan since like...forever. Even back when the Wings sucked (literally, not just because you didn't like them) back in the 1970s. Back when they were playing at the old Olympia Arena.

Now how did they go from the basement to consistantly winning President's Trophies to winning 3 Stanley Cups in the last decade?

Well, late in the 70s, people stopped going. They stopped buying Red Wings stuff. One of the oldest Original Six teams was weeks away from going bankrupt.

Fans voted with their wallets, new management had no choice picked up the pieces and decided if things were to get better, they're have to make an honest effort. In came Yzerman, Federov was sprung from the USSR and the rest was history.

Unfortunately, it's a bitter pill; but if your wife serves you s*** sandwiches night after night and all you do is smile and rave about how great they are and that tomorrow they will taste even better, she'll never serve you anything different than more s*** sandwiches.

Toronto has the biggest exclusive market in the NHL. Jeez, you don't think the Rangers, Islanders and Devils don't wish for that kind of exclusivity? Coast to coast monopoly on the national TV network? Merchandising?

82 games, a possible 164 points. And Leaf fans are watching an Islanders game instead of eating Easter dinner, hoping that the Islanders will lose so that they can squeek in the back door. Leaf fans deserve better. But they won't get it until they send the message...