LuckyNumber7
Blue Crack Addict
Supposedly going to be the summer of the Panther...
The Blues may not win the Cup for awhile (but don't count them out).
Greatest fans in the world, can't provide enough support to keep an NBA team or an NFL team.
Used to winning...a total of 17 combined Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, World Series and NBA titles. Cardinals only have 3 of their11 in the last 50 years.
Boston by comparison has a total of 38 combined titles...and the team that can barely muster enough support for 2 of the 4 major sports is "used to winning".
The Blues, owners of "the best fans in hockey" according to you played to 90% capacity this season when they finally won the Cup. The Bruins played to 100% capacity and the Blackhawks, in a miserable year on the ice for them played to 107% capacity.
Is the weather fair as you ride the bandwagon around Missouri today?
celebrating your team's championship by pedantically comparing your city to other cities like an insecure little brother must be a st. louis thing.
Really disappointed that the only time the nhl thread is active is when you feel the need to compare penises.
This has been my least favorite season of the decade, easily. Fuck the Blues.
The Hawks/Blues rivalry has actually been very intense for the last decade and we eliminated them in the playoffs twice during that time frame. Despite falling short in the playoffs, they've been a very tough regular season opponent every year and it helps stir things up that Quenneville got us just a little further than he could take St Louis.
Putting it another way, imagine the garbage fire St Louis Cardinals fanbase getting wasted and trying to get into hockey. It's awful.
But yes, I think most Hawks fans miss Detroit being in the division. They're the big fish.
No just standing up to those who cast shade on the great State of Missouri.
Keil was always at capacity, you can't get a ticket, )
so fucking what if one guy said he doesn't like your team almost a month ago. jesus, grow up. you came in with "SUCK IT CHICAGO!!!!" and also started "casting shade" on boston weeks after those comments so don't bother with the phony white knight act.
enjoy the fact that your team just won their first cup in your lifetime with a little class and quit with this petty dick-measuring bullshit dude.
First Missouri has an NFL Team, two MLB baseball teams, NHL and MLS and will soon get a second MLS team.
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example 2, which is really ignorant because ST Louis puts more kids in the NHL draft then any city in the US. Just take the Stars - Blues Game - Maroon (from St Louis, Oakville high) beats the Stars keeper Bishop (from St Louis, Desmet Jesuit I believe)
In 2016 we put 5 kids in the first round. that's 5 out of 31 that's 16 percent from Little ole, non hockey ST Louis. Or even to give more perspective only 12 American born players were taken in the first round, 5 were from St Louis.
Well we would win the cup there too (like the double entendre on cup) esp vs Chicago
So now the greatest fans in the world, the St Louis fans, count Kansas City as part of St Louis?
https://medium.com/the-cities-tribune/hockeytowns-where-nhl-players-come-from-99707d7c2713
Top cities sending current players to the NHL....top 10 has 2 US cities, Minn/St Paul and Boston. (Plus "Detroit, ON" which I assume is a hodgepodge of US and Canadian players from the Detroit and Windsor areas.)
For cities with an NHL franchise, St Louis ranks 14th in players produced.
Chicago counts, Gary, southbend, Rockford, Joliet, parts of Michigan, Indiana etc.
Boston pulls, Maine, Mass, Vermont, RI, New Hampshire, Conn = 5 states
and I said Missouri,
There's a confluence of factors that could make St Louis a hockey hub in the years to come, but my joking post was a poke at the city's allegiances more than a claim that there are no knowledgeable fans in the whole city. Obviously there are many loyal fans who stuck out an extraordinary championship drought.
But # 1 in First rounders' (2016) we may produce less over all, but we produce some damn good ones.
Sorry but Chicago fans are fans of Chicago teams.
Boston “pulls” those areas because Boston is small and unabatedly represents New England.
If you’re genuinely trying to make a point about NHLers being produced out of St. Louis being notable, you’re crazy.
Mass, Minnesota, Michigan, and upstate New York are hands down the greatest producers. That’s not discrediting St. Louis as a good hockey city, but Missouri and the accompanying region takes backseats to many other regions in the US.
and STL is only about 350,000 (the City), Boston os what between 650-700,000 being from Missouri we support all our teams. In all reality if it was just STL they wouldn't have the resources or the Oxygen to support multiple Major League Franchises.
It will be interesting when STL gets its MLS team in 21. KC is also making a play for an NHL team, they have great facilities and could support an NHL or NBA franchise (its just that basketball as a whole isn't popular in MO, not even at the HS level, where Football, Wrestling, Soccer and Hockey pull more kids and KU is so good and 20 minutes from KC why would someone see a lesser tier NBA team when they go to KU games)
Just saying almost half of the US born first rounders' in the 16 draft came from STL that's a fact.
and Brady Tkachuck taking 4th over all last year doesn't' count he grew up in STL and played for Chiminade as well as his Brother.
What’s a Major League Franchise? So proper :0
You missed the point though. Boston is small but has no competition. St. Louis exists in a region where multiple markets overlap. I’m not really following your population comparison though. Chicago fans aren’t traditionally St. Louis fans. They’re Chicago fans. Might have some fans in Chicago, but it’s not like... a battleground market. They’re Chicago fans.
I mean OK... that’s true. What’s your point? 2016 was definitely a year starting to show the echo of where former hockey folk have sprouted their families up. Most of those players as youths opted for CHL juniors or joined USNDT, which is predominantly in Michigan. So, sure, Keith Tkachuck’s kids are good at hockey. Where’s Keith from? Massachusetts. Where did Keith do his major-junior equivalent in the US? A Massachusetts high school. Where did he do development thereafter? BU. Matthew Tkachuck is as much from St. Louis as Jakob Chychrun is a Floridian. Early years? Sure. But folks like him or Tkachuck entered the NHL via the CHL major junior system, USNDT, or the NCAA system. Hockey development in places like Arizona, St. Louis, Florida, etc. etc. is growing, but it still has a long way to go before it is comparable to the hockey hives of the US.
But # 1 in First rounders' (2016) we may produce less over all, but we produce some damn good ones.