New Final Proposal from NHL

[jy3]

sad day for sports if the NHL cancels the season. This will really stink and I believe this may be the end of a major hockey sport in north america

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]jy3 Wrote:

 sad day for sports if the NHL cancels the season. This will really stink and I believe this may be the end of a major hockey sport in north america[/q]
Dunno.  The Devils just announced they're building a new 18,000-seat arena.

[Tub(a)]

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 [Q2]jy3 Wrote:

 sad day for sports if the NHL cancels the season. This will really stink and I believe this may be the end of a major hockey sport in north america[/Q]
Dunno.  The Devils just announced they're building a new 18,000-seat arena.[/q]

Don't they share that with the Nets?

[KeithK]

[q]Don't [the Devils] share [their new arena] with the Nets? [/q]Last I heard the Nets were trying to move to Brooklyn.  The most recent thing I could quickly Google on this was dated a year ago so I don't know if the plan fell through or nit.

[Greg Berge]

Can they be renamed the "Warriors"?  :-D

[billhoward]

The Nets' plan for Brooklyn is proceeding but it is still not a guanantee they're moving. The current arena is one of those charmless buildings in the middle of a parking lot in the middle of a swamp - correction, revitalizing nature refuge - that is still a darn sight better than the current Madison Square Garden that destroyed Pennsylvania Station.

There is lots of talk of putting a civic auditorium / sports arena in Newark near the train station (also called Penn Station). This is not as silly as it sounds. The Star-Ledger newspaper, headquartered a few blocks away, has taken this on (well, cheerleading for it) as its civic duty, having a decade ago pushed through a performing arts center. For anyone who attends Ranger games, once they're out of the playoffs, which is sadly as of the final game of the season, getting from there to a new Newark stadium would only be an additional 20 minutes.

A new civic center in Newark is going to do a lot more for that city than anything you build in Detroit, or any gimmick there like the 2011 Frozen Four in a domed stadium.

On the other hand, maybe people will decide if the teams want new auditoriums, that's what the owners' checkbooks are for.

[Josh '99]

Hahahahaha!!!  I could've sworn you just said that Byrne Arena (oh, sorry, Continental Airlines Arena) was better than MSG, but you couldn't have, because that's just plain ridiculous.  

[Josh '99]

"Waaa-riooooors....  Come out and play-eee-ayyyy..."  :-D

[calgARI '07]

They are still meeting at 9:00.  They started at 1:00.  I think it has to be a good sign.

[Josh '99]

Or the meeting could be going something like this:

"Will you agree to a salary cap?"
"No."

...

"How about now?"
"No."
"Now?"
"No."


...

"What about now?"
"No."
"N-"
"No."

[calgARI '07]

Talks finished for the night.  More to come.

[calgARI '07]

Now there are reports talks might not be finished and that they could talk well into the night.

[Al DeFlorio]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:
A new civic center in Newark is going to do a lot more for that city than anything you build in Detroit, or any gimmick there like the 2011 Frozen Four in a domed stadium.

On the other hand, maybe people will decide if the teams want new auditoriums, that's what the owners' checkbooks are for. [/q]
The plan supposedly is $210 million from Newark, $100 million from the Devils.  To be ready for 2007-8 season.  Maybe the lockout will end by then.  ::help::

[calgARI '07]

They are finished for tonight.  They will meet again tomorrow.

http://www.tsn.ca/Nhl/news_story.asp?ID=113658&hubName=nhl

[BCrespi]

I really hope they question the infrastructure in Newark though.  Those who have experience with the Turnpike, 280, GSP area know what I fear when I think of a 7 PM start time on a weekday night ::shudder::