Hot/Cold Weather NHL: What's the Deal?

Hockey fans are hockey fans whether it's 5 degrees or 85 degrees. There are people who will say that just because we live in warm whether, we must know nothing of hockey. Yes, like there is a cutoff, once you get below south dakota, all of a sudden, hockey is like understanding Chinese or something.

All Hockey fans are a little bit nutty in the head and that's why we'd go sit inside a cold hockey rink on a perfectly warm day. And hey, maybe that's just what we need from being outside sweating.........ahhhh....a nice cold arena.

No we haven't grown up playing hockey on the river down the street during the winter and no we probalby don't have the best ice in the league due to the weather but we love hockey like Redsox fans love to hate the Yankees.

GO SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait, where is my sunscreen?

It's not a hot/cold thing.

Who leads the NHL in attendance? TAMPA BAY, that's who!! (Granted, there is no other arena in the league that can hold an average Lightning home game crowd, but the facts are the facts.)

The reason the Devils don't draw is because the NY Metropolitan area is Ranger Country. Always has been and always will be. The only time the Devils draw is when Ranger fans cross the Hudson or Flyer fans drive up the Turnpike.

The one recent expansion which made no sense to me was Atlanta. Atlanta had a team. It failed miserably. That's why they're in Calgary now.

Carolina was an odd choice, and it really came out of nowhere. For years, the rumors around the Hartford Whalers had the team moving to Columbus. I thought it was a done deal.

I think you nail it on the Button, theirs some warm Weathered cities like Dallas and Tampa where their teams won the Cup, Stars in 1999, and Lightning in 2004, they got a Strong fanbase, so does Cold weather places like Denver Colorado Av's won in 1996 and 2001, Newark New Jersey here the Devils won in 1995, 2000, and 2003, counterparts in New York Rangers won in 1928, 1933, 1940, and 1994 they had to win that year, Islanders four Straight from 1980-1983, Pittsburgh Penguins 1991, 1992, Philadelphia Flyers 1974, 1975, and last but not least Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup 10 Times 1936, 1937, 1943, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1997, 1998, and 2002.

What do they have in Common Solid, Stable, Sound-Minded Ownership if your team is going to win the Stanley Cup they better have the Right Stuff to do it, teams I mentioned Have what it takes.

The NHL overexpanded. The league was not able to support thirty teams, and still cannot support thirty teams. They'd be better off dumping six teams, and keeping the playoffs as they are because the real hockey season starts when the playoffs do.

Also, make sure very team plays every other team home and away. Teams out west are not assured of seeing Sidney Crosby every year, and the same goes for the fact Detroit, the most popular team out of their area, does not play in every eastern city.

I think that its not about the weather, but think about it like this, if its a nice warm beautiful day outside, do you want to go sit in a hockey rink? Probably not, you want to be outside enjoying the weather or at a baseball game with an open roof.

I dont think a team should be penalized because they are in a warm climate, I just think fans are more reluctant to go into a cold arena on a nice warm day.

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