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| 29 May 2008
Doesn’t the mere suggestion that you are “Hockeytown, USA”, suggest that your city is the biggest hockey hotspot in the United States? 
If so, someone needs to file a petition to have that term removed from the city of Detroit.
After watching the first two games on the Stanley Cup, being televised from the so-called hockey capital, it was appalling to see so many empty seats. And then game three was played in Pittsburgh, where it was not only sold out for this game but thousands sat outside the arena to watch the game on a big screen television. In addition to that, when the two games were played in Detroit, upwards of thirteen thousand paid $5.00 to sit in Mellon Arena to watch the game on the scoreboard, with all proceeds going to the Mario Lemieux Foundation.
Now, to be fair, the Detroit Pistons of basketball fame are playing in a championship of their own, so maybe completely taking the name from Detroit is unfair. Maybe it should be changed to “Hockeytown, USA, But Only When There is No Basketball Game On.” That would just about sum it up.
All I know is if I want to see 6’-6 men jump up and lay a ball into a round hoop shaped thing, with little or no expertise, I can go to any playground around the neighborhood and anytime of day, summer, winter, spring or fall, and watch for free.
Any championship series for any sport is an exciting, once in a lifetime thing for most people. The Pistons were playing in a conference game, not the final championship. The Red Wings were playing for one of sports most cherished trophies, given to the players of the sport, not the owners, but the men who play the game. Sad to see that point lost on the people of Detroit.
When the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing for the baseball championship in the 70’s, I was upset they couldn’t sell out Thee Rivers Stadium, capacity upwards of 52,000 for baseball. Joe Louis Arena holds slightly less than that and still many seats were left for no one. The team should have held a “Red Out” for the series there and the empty seats would have complied with it very well.
Time for the people of Detroit to either put up or shut up. Just because you are one of the original six, doesn’t make you “Hockeytown, USA”. It just makes you old.
If so, someone needs to file a petition to have that term removed from the city of Detroit.After watching the first two games on the Stanley Cup, being televised from the so-called hockey capital, it was appalling to see so many empty seats. And then game three was played in Pittsburgh, where it was not only sold out for this game but thousands sat outside the arena to watch the game on a big screen television. In addition to that, when the two games were played in Detroit, upwards of thirteen thousand paid $5.00 to sit in Mellon Arena to watch the game on the scoreboard, with all proceeds going to the Mario Lemieux Foundation.
Now, to be fair, the Detroit Pistons of basketball fame are playing in a championship of their own, so maybe completely taking the name from Detroit is unfair. Maybe it should be changed to “Hockeytown, USA, But Only When There is No Basketball Game On.” That would just about sum it up.
All I know is if I want to see 6’-6 men jump up and lay a ball into a round hoop shaped thing, with little or no expertise, I can go to any playground around the neighborhood and anytime of day, summer, winter, spring or fall, and watch for free.Any championship series for any sport is an exciting, once in a lifetime thing for most people. The Pistons were playing in a conference game, not the final championship. The Red Wings were playing for one of sports most cherished trophies, given to the players of the sport, not the owners, but the men who play the game. Sad to see that point lost on the people of Detroit.
When the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing for the baseball championship in the 70’s, I was upset they couldn’t sell out Thee Rivers Stadium, capacity upwards of 52,000 for baseball. Joe Louis Arena holds slightly less than that and still many seats were left for no one. The team should have held a “Red Out” for the series there and the empty seats would have complied with it very well.Time for the people of Detroit to either put up or shut up. Just because you are one of the original six, doesn’t make you “Hockeytown, USA”. It just makes you old.
Like me.
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