it still is and will allways be Detriot
people just werent used to the lions being fun to watch and now they arent and decent crowds are coming back to the joe
plus the wings would pwn(own) the wild any night
2007-12-12 08:01:21 · 24 answers · asked by Hebrew Hammer!!! 5 in Sports ➔ Hockey
by the way i knew detroit is getting worse and this was just a question to c what others thought
2007-12-12 12:27:41 · update #1
Theres nothing you can do about.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/attendance?year=2007
We have one bad year they want to take the name away, if you look at the attendance you would see that Detroit is right behind Montreal for 2nd every year which means 1st in US. Except 1 year right after Tampa Bay. Don't let it get to you, no ones taking the name "Hockeytown" from the Joe. Every city has there own moniker but i guess ours is the most "creative" and they want to take it from us.
2007-12-12 08:42:50 · answer #1 · answered by Vinny 4 · 6⤊ 3⤋
It's a bloody title................it means nothing!
I have been to dozens of games in Detroit over the past 50 years, and I see nothing about the city that warrants the name of 'Hockeytown' over any other.
There are several US cities that have more hockey coverage on TV
There are several US cities that have more hockey coverage on radio
There are several US cities that have more hockey coverage in their newspapers
There is even a US city that generates more revenue, and makes more money.
Detroit has two Canadian announcers/ Mickey Redmond did weekday games for the Leafs with Jim Hughson in the early 80s. Ken Daniels was with CBLT until a few short years ago. Radio guy Paul Woods is a good old Canadian boy from Hespeler, Ontario (PuckDat will know where that is).
Hockeytown could rotate from city to city for all I care. It means nothing. I can walk down Warren or Jefferson and ask people where Hockeytown is, and get stared at because they have no clue................
2007-12-12 20:00:43 · answer #2 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Detroit is the only hockeytown usa.
Reasons why minny should not be hockeytown
when was the last time:
1) the wild won the cup
2) the wild made it through to the the finals
3) the wild made it through to the 3rd round of the playoffs
4) Won their division
5) Retired a Jersey of an all star (besides # 1) as a tribute to wild fans
6) had a steady team captain ( for longer then 3 months)
7) if ur not a wild fan how many decent players can u name off the team in the past 10-12 yrs??? and compare it to detroit.
ones that pop into my head:
backstrom
gaborik
rolston
fernandez
koivu
demetria
parish
walz
hatcher (north stars)
DET
shanny
feds
yzerman
hasek
osgood
vernon
legace
grind line (draper, maltby,mcarty)
larionov
lidstrom
schneider
rafalski
robitaille
hull
chelios
dats
zetterberg
holmstrom
vladdy
bert
festivov
lapoint
priemeu(sp)
probert
The real hockeytown is where it is. I dont see hockeytown on centre ice in minnesota. where is it..........
oh yea
in DETROIT!!!
2007-12-12 19:35:10 · answer #3 · answered by inside and out 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
This has been done, over and over again. You are a loyal fan for defending Detroit. That's about the end of the story. Search for this question and variations of it to see what people have to say. I've only been on here for a month or two, and I've seen it done many times.
P.S. I'm not disputing Detroit is Hockeytown, but just because they may beat the Wild, does not make them hockeytown. Does that mean any team that would beat the Wild should be hockeytown? That's not a great argument, winning isn't what makes anyone hockeytown.
2007-12-12 16:08:33 · answer #4 · answered by CAAM 3 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Wow, amazing how much people can take a name out of context. Yes Detroit has been knows as hockey-town for a while. Yes they are a very good team, one of the best of all times. But there is a lot more to being a hockey-town then just being able to win games. A true hockey-town is a city that sticks by their team through thick and thin. When the team owners go to jail and the team is taken over by the league, and people still support them, that's a hockey-town. When the team gets screwed three years in a row in the playoffs and the people keep filling the arena, that's a hockey town. In case any of you haven't figured it out, I'm talking about Buffalo. I know a lot of people will disagree, and that's fine. But answer me this: which team sold out every home game last year? which team had the best record the first two years after the lockout? I'm not saying that Buffalo should get it over Detroit, but it should be talked about more as A HOCKEY-TOWN. And that's another thing, no one city should get or give themselves the title: Hockey-town USA or Hockey-town in general. If you really want to give your city a title like that, just tell the truth. Call it A HOCKEY-TOWN, doesn't have to be THE HOCKEY-TOWN. OK, I'm done ranting. Now lets see all the people bash me for being loyal and trying to apply a little common sense.
2007-12-12 17:47:32 · answer #5 · answered by kunsan12003 3 · 4⤊ 4⤋
I could care less if Detroit was Hockeytown or not, I've never been there, and only plan to go there when i can afford to see the Wings.
And besides, you can have more than one Hockeytown. It's not called "the Hockeytown" just hockeytown.
I nominate every town/city that has a hockey team of any level be called hockeytown.
2007-12-12 18:15:11 · answer #6 · answered by Wings Fan! 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Minnesota lost a team for not supporting it and now they are the new hockeytown? Anyone that has been to Detroit knows why they don't sell out. Detroit has been losing jobs by the thousands for the last 7 years. Thousands are losing their homes because they cant afford them. The tickets are almost impossible to get because companies buy up the entire lower bowl leaving just the upper bowl for actual fans. The rest have a huge markup on them. Good call there SI.
I think they just need to sell some more mags and this probably did it.
2007-12-12 16:34:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋
Hockeytown hasn't got anything to do with whether your team is the best. If you wanna play that card then it's Anaheim right now isn't it? After all they are the keepers of the sacred mug.
And since the monicker was all part of a self-created delusion by the people of Detroit why can't anyone else horn in on it? YOU CAN"T GIVE YOURSELF A NICKNAME!!
Emiller buy a clue - minnesota did not lose the team for not supporting it. Get your facts straight.
2007-12-12 16:32:34 · answer #8 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Calm down. Nobody listened to SI writers before, why would they take them seriously now? Methinks magazine sales are in a slump. Lets cause some controversy, shall we?
Hockeyman: Don't talk about yourself in the third person. lol
Fly: Wow. You are SO right. The Red Wings (1st in the Central Div.) should be bowing down to the Isles (Last in the Atlantic Div.) The NYI are clearly the superior team.
That "crew of dinosaurs" has Detroit first in the league. So maybe you should just shut your proboscis, wise one.
2007-12-12 16:07:11 · answer #9 · answered by green 4 · 9⤊ 2⤋
Any particular reason why we need a Hockeytown USA?
If we do, is there any particular reason SI should be the ones to decide who holds the title? I think we should let Don King decide, we could have a world association champ, a world organization champ, a national champ and an international champ. Everybody could hold at least one title.
As long as I'm still the world indoor water skiing champion ...
2007-12-12 17:37:12 · answer #10 · answered by cme 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋