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Last reply Nov 4, 2011 · posted in The Sports Section

An observation about the NHL

Now, Im not a big fan of the NHL but I did listen to Gary Bettman on WFAN, watch NHL on the Fly, and have been reading about the new NHL contract. I will say this about the NHL and the fans. They are very loyal fan base. I give credit to the NHL and the fan base. They are very passionate and I give credit to the NHL for trying to grow there game. Ex. The Winter Classic, the game on Black Friday etc. I give them a lot of credit. Maybe some sports fans, and I'll admit Im one of them, look at the NHL and it goes under the radar but they are trying different things and growing the game. Some of the playoff games and regular season games might not get a lot of attention but there have been some great reg. season and playoff games.

I wonder if they can take advantage of the NBA lockout? Now I might not know about hockey but I believe Bettman said that there would be no contraction. I, personally, would like to see the Hartford Whalers back in the NHL. What about a team in Maine or Vermont or even another team back in Canada? I would think that would happen because isnt hockey big in those areas? Im not an expert but wouldnt teams in those regions/cities be better than teams in Nashville or Columbus?

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SandraC

Oct 27, 2011

I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but I don't think hockey in Maine or Vermont can work...as devoted as they are to hockey in those places, the population base is just too small.

Hartford is small too, and such a strange location. The arena is in a shopping center...at one end you have Macy's, at the other you have the Civic Center. Just bizarre. And that fan base is now thoroughly divided between the Rangers and Bruins. It was like that when the Whalers WERE there, and it's even worse now.

What I just don't understand is why Bettman feels Long Island is a viable place for a franchise. Nassau county needs a huge infusion of cash just to qualify as broke, the fans are obviously the biggest front-runners in sports, and if team went away it would barely be a blip on the radar. This area cannot support three franchises in any sport...let alone hockey.

Send the Stupid-landers to Quebec, if they finally get their arena built in Quebec City, where people will actually care. The lease at the Mausoleum runs out in 2015...after that hopefully it's buh-bye.

Sandra

Bodo Fenrirsson

Nov 2, 2011

SandraC said:
I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but I don't think hockey in Maine or Vermont can work...as devoted as they are to hockey in those places, the population base is just too small.

Hartford is small too, and such a strange location. The arena is in a shopping center...at one end you have Macy's, at the other you have the Civic Center. Just bizarre. And that fan base is now thoroughly divided between the Rangers and Bruins. It was like that when the Whalers WERE there, and it's even worse now.

What I just don't understand is why Bettman feels Long Island is a viable place for a franchise. Nassau county needs a huge infusion of cash just to qualify as broke, the fans are obviously the biggest front-runners in sports, and if team went away it would barely be a blip on the radar. This area cannot support three franchises in any sport...let alone hockey.

Send the Stupid-landers to Quebec, if they finally get their arena built in Quebec City, where people will actually care. The lease at the Mausoleum runs out in 2015...after that hopefully it's buh-bye.

Sandra

What is the deal with the Islanders potentially playing in the new arena being built in Brooklyn for the Nets? Seriously,why can't they coexist there?

SandraC

Nov 3, 2011

royrdsjr said:
What is the deal with the Islanders potentially playing in the new arena being built in Brooklyn for the Nets? Seriously,why can't they coexist there?

The Rangers may have rights to the area (Brooklyn is in the City, Uniondale, LI, is not), and if so the Rangers would have to allow them to play there. Hopefully if Dolan gets the opportunity, he says no.

Sandra

Islandguy43

Nov 3, 2011

SandraC said:
The Rangers may have rights to the area (Brooklyn is in the City, Uniondale, LI, is not), and if so the Rangers would have to allow them to play there. Hopefully if Dolan gets the opportunity, he says no.

Sandra

I doubt Bettman will let the Islanders just move out of his backyard. There is tradition there with the Islanders. Columbus seems to be a more likely a choice to move than them. If I want to make the trip to Columbus on Black Friday I can get a Sabres game ticket, $10 food voucher, a hat, and tim hortons travel mug and a ten pack of timbits for only $35, and they still can't sell the place out. Tonights Leafs Blue Jackets games has a ton leafs jerseys in the crowd too.

SandraC

Nov 4, 2011

Islandguy43 said:
I doubt Bettman will let the Islanders just move out of his backyard. There is tradition there with the Islanders. Columbus seems to be a more likely a choice to move than them. If I want to make the trip to Columbus on Black Friday I can get a Sabres game ticket, $10 food voucher, a hat, and tim hortons travel mug and a ten pack of timbits for only $35, and they still can't sell the place out. Tonights Leafs Blue Jackets games has a ton leafs jerseys in the crowd too.

Tradition? If you call the Islanders to find out what time the game starts, they ask you what time you can make it...

Sandra

Islandguy43

Nov 4, 2011

SandraC said:
Tradition? If you call the Islanders to find out what time the game starts, they ask you what time you can make it...

Sandra

Ya....but they did win a bunch of cups there too. What they actually need is quality ownership whom doesn't hire the backup goalie on the team to become their general manager during practice one day/

SandraC

Nov 4, 2011

Islandguy43 said:
Ya....but they did win a bunch of cups there too. What they actually need is quality ownership whom doesn't hire the backup goalie on the team to become their general manager during practice one day/

Please...that was a generation ago. There are no ties left to the Stanley Cup teams...their current fans (all 10 of them) don't even remember them.

Wang is the owner...he's not going anywhere...until the entire team does. That day cannot come soon enough.

Sandra

televisionarchives

Nov 4, 2011

I was part of the Booster Club for the Maine Mariners AHL team back in the 1980's . They had good turnouts for the games. Tons of Fights!! But a NHL team won't work in Maine for many reasons.

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AT&T runs First Net which was set up so first responders have a signal almost everywhere, which is the case around here and up and down the east coast when I've been traveling. In my experience T-Mobile has the fastest network but patchy coverage while Verizon has a slow network and also patchy coverage as well. We also have a iPhone on T-Mobile and one on Mobile-X which uses the Verizon network, so comparison is easy.

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EarDemon

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JSheridan said:
AT&T runs First Net which was set up so first responders have a signal almost everywhere, which is the case around here and up and down the east coast when I've been traveling. In my experience T-Mobile has the fastest network but patchy coverage while Verizon has a slow network and also patchy coverage as well. We also have a iPhone on T-Mobile and one on Mobile-X which uses the Verizon network, so comparison is easy.

I did a 2500 mile round trip road trip a few weeks ago, there were a handful of places where Verizon had service and I had nothing on FirstNet. Most notably in the backwoods of Kentucky and Tennessee. Those same places I had no service on T-Mobile either. In populated areas, like the Lexington metro and Knoxville metro AT&T not only had great coverage, better than Verizon and T-Mobile generally, they have n77 everywhere. I hit 1.2 Gbps or higher pretty much everywhere, beating out the other two. That is the exact opposite here back in Western NY. Very little n77 on AT&T here and T-Mobile always rockets to 1.5 Gbps or higher.

As far as I know, there is no AT&T tower in my town. The tower I connect to when I'm outside, no service indoors, is one about 4.5 miles north of me in a different town, I can barley latch on to band 12, not 14. It's LTE only but when near that tower I exceed 200 Mbps which is phenomenal for low band LTE, but T-Mobile and Verizon have mid band on the same tower, and i'm well over a gig.

I'm looking forward to the n14 conversion and deployment of n79/4.9 GHz. Since AT&T can't sell their home internet service in NY State, I don't expect big things from them besides the enhancements to FirstNet.

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JSheridan

Yesterday at 3:06 PM

EarDemon said:
... Since AT&T can't sell their home internet service in NY State, I don't expect big things from them besides the enhancements to FirstNet.

We're in NY and we can now. We're an AT&T retailer and have been selling AT&T Internet Air for a few months. It's $35 a month if you're an AT&T post paid subscriber, $55 a month if you're not a subscriber.

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Almighty1

Yesterday at 5:42 PM

JSheridan said:
We're in NY and we can now. We're an AT&T retailer and have been selling AT&T Internet Air for a few months. It's $35 a month if you're an AT&T post paid subscriber, $55 a month if you're not a subscriber.

The AT&T Internet that everyone has access to is AT&T WorldNet aka att.com which is the same backbone created in 1994 that is a joke. AT&T has 3 Internet tier 1 backbones. AT&T Global Network Services formerly IBM Global Network Services (prserv.net) and AT&T Emerging Network Services, formerly (CERFNet (California Educational and Research Foundation Network) that was part of NSFNet (National Science Foundation Network). AT&T WorldNet has always been a inferior and not the same quality as the other two which are highly respected.

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comfortably_numb

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Almighty1 said:
The AT&T Internet that everyone has access to is AT&T WorldNet aka att.com which is the same backbone created in 1994 that is a joke

JSheridan is referring to ATT's (relatively) new 5G cellular home internet.

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Almighty1

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comfortably_numb said:
JSheridan is referring to ATT's (relatively) new 5G cellular home internet.

I know, that still will use AT&T's 1996 created backbone better known as AS 7018 which is the lower end. The other two are higher end under AS2685 & AS2686 & AS1740 & AS1838.

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Juan

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comfortably_numb said:
JSheridan is referring to ATT's (relatively) new 5G cellular home internet.

Which connects to a backbone network

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Yesterday at 11:17 PM

Juan said:
Which connects to a backbone network

Fun fact.. the backhaul to the tower in Drexel, MO for both VZW and ATT is provided by CenturyLink

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