The South is worth fighting for and southerners are worth fighting with. Don’t ever forget it.

-10+ min. SC recap intro was amazing on banner night. Makes no sense to run it out every game. There is no juice the other games it's been played. -Half of the TV TOs are just playing a video that's been out on social media for weeks. -Same little clips after whistles for years. Music is stale too

Uncle Morty@themayorofshittown.bsky.social · 4w ago

Can you elaborate on that?

Think we need to have a talk about just how bad the in-game presentation has become for the Canes. As someone who used to work in this realm, it's tough to watch a Big Four pro team's show be on par with a mid-tier college. Low energy, reusing assets multiple times a game. It's brutal.

Face value get-in price is $47.30 per ticket lmao. Luckily a lot of secondary ones to be had starting around $20.

Ryan Henkel@ryanhenkel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I mean, the Stanley Cup championship price bump was to be expected, but $45 for general parking for a preseason game feels extreme

Making this point on the pod last week -- Carolina Hurricanes have reached "as expensive as a single day at the Magic Kingdom" levels.

Was a firm believer that he would call it a day when this contract was up, as it lined up pretty well with the Canes' 'window' at the time. The contracts/development of guys like Stank, Blake and Miller have extended said window IMO, so who knows.

Joe Ovies@joeovies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gonna have fun speculating what this all means for Brind’Amour, who has a contract through 28-29

Spare me the pearl clutching over this start time. Just about every MLB team opens the season on a weekday afternoon and it rules. I'm all for this.

Al Hood@albhood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Warned y’all last week that with ESPN in charge and that they already put the Champs at 5 last year this might happen. Watch the second game be like Chicago and New York.

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And I think that's great for the regular season! But with playoffs in spring + a legit contender, it feels like such a missed layup to not make it a much larger event. Growing up, some core memories were at the big screen outside the Igloo during the 08/09 runs in PGH. It made lots of new fans too.

Wade Minter@wademinter.com · 6mo ago

We do, however, have official watch parties. They're just at the Carolina Ale House instead of the arena.

Really amazing how 7 of the 8 remaining teams have this watch party thing for fans figured out while the Canes continue to ignore it. I know Dundon cheap and all but there’s a legit intrinsic value to bare minimum community engagement. But hey, keep getting that $60 parking

It's fascinating to me how the Hurricanes are approaching 150 consecutive sellouts but rank behind numerous minor league markets when it comes to watching the sport. It's still a struggle to get bars to show Canes games by default. Not sure what the reasons are.

Shocked there isn't a sponsor lined up for it, and pls actually have the game on TVs and not ads like 90% of the monitors already around the concourses.

Ryan Henkel@ryanhenkel.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The View Bar on the 300 level at Lenovo Center is set to finally open for the first time tomorrow.

Pause...

Ryan Henkel@ryanhenkel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Svechnikov on Slavin: "The best D in the world."

I beg the people that only follow hockey obsessively to follow other sports or get a hobby that makes you miss a game or two.

Joe Ovies@joeovies.bsky.social · 12mo ago

RE: the Canes. Do yourself a favor. Log off, grab a beer and just…I don’t know…enjoy some hockey IN FUCKING NOVEMBER.

No turnover. Caught the dang ball and tackled. Never a doubt. Next Saturday will be one for the books.

Anyone need #Canes tickets for Thanksgiving? STM that'll be out of town with a pair of seats available in 315, Row G. Above the doorway w/no one in front of you. Price is total for both tickets (no parking). #CarolinaCulture #RaiseUp 11/26 vs. NYR - $120 OBO 11/28 vs. WPG - $120 OBO

I’m sure creative accounting will be done to keep the sellout streak alive, but woof on this crowd tn

RANGERS WIN? NO, QUIT IN NEW YORK! #CarolinaCulture

Did not have eight-minute opening drive with three fourth-down conversions on my bingo card for Pitt today. Goodness that was beautiful

The ice is down there. The puck somehow took out a panel up there

The whole Canes/Hart/McLeod saga was such an insane and preventable self-own. Even without these guys signing, you now have guys like Staal and RBA on the record sounding like jackasses when there was no reason to put them in that position to begin with.

#PittBS

A lot of people are forgetting that at least 50% of the people coming through the doors on a given night aren't online enough to know what happened in this scandal. The idea that a couple dozen people sending emails will change the team's mind is setting yourself up for disappointment.

Cory Lavalette@corylav.bsky.social · last yr.

FWIW, fans say this stuff a lot. Some probably will follow through, but the odds of it being enough to make it a consideration by the team are minimal, I’d say.

Thinking about him

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This sport can't help itself.

Robson Fletcher@robsonfletcher.com · last yr.

It's been a while since I've read a story this long, this thoroughly reported, this blunt in laying out its allegations of wrongdoing. My jaw was on the floor from start to finish. @kennyjacoby.bsky.social on how the Dallas Stars "bullied a community on their path to profiting off a youth sport":

You really have to wonder why the Dallas Stars can't get past the conference finals. Really think they should consider changing their system. #RaiseUp

Yeah another 5-10, 170 pound when soaking wet prospect is just what will get this team over the top

jamie@druryskies.bsky.social · last yr.

anyways do yall think bradly nadeau will make the team next season

Pain

Ryan Henkel@ryanhenkel.bsky.social · last yr.

Jalen Chatfield is officially OUT for Game 2 per the NHL's roster report.

The silver lining of the Canes losing is we’re one game closer to never watching Brent Burns make beer league mistakes on a nightly basis again.