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   AshburnStadium said, 4 months ago

   As a Flyers fan for just under 40 years (I started following them as a 9-year-old boy the very season that they wound up winning their first Stanley Cup), I have given up on the National Hockey League, thanks to Gary Bettman.
   The NHL flipped off its fans, who pay their extortionate salaries, ticket prices and merchandise prices.
   It’s time for the fans to return the gesture.
   The ticket prices are so high that I haven’t been able to afford to go to a Flyers game since April 26, 1981.
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   J. Short said, 4 months ago

   Strike 3, you’re out!
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   elwoodontario said, 4 months ago

   they weren’t on strike. The team owners locked the players out.,
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   Just4Kixx said, 4 months ago

   This is why they don’t have baseball in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (an area notorious for its government jobs and worker entitlement): Every time the umpire yells “STRIKE” everyone walks off the field…
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   AlexPK85 said, 4 months ago

   @AshburnStadium

   Couldn’t agree with you more, I used to be a big Islander fan back in the 80s. The team hasn’t been good since Mike Bossy retired. All these strikes have put me off on the league. Gary Bettman couldn’t run a hot dog stand correctly.
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   Ronald Davis said, 4 months ago

   I still enjoy the thrill whenever the pitcher kicks the puck into the basket.
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   Submachine said, 4 months ago

   @Ronald Davis

   In the third inning.
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   David Glover said, 4 months ago

   @

   I’ve studied this, and with out a doubt, “losers” are quick to call others names!
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   whmIII said, 4 months ago

   Hockey is soccer on ice with switch-blades…
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    halvincobbes said, 4 months ago

    Technically, it was a lock-out. Don’t blame the players.
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    Gwen said, 4 months ago

    @

    A bit testie are we?
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    Loy Wells said, 4 months ago

    Wow. They still play hockey?
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    RUBBER DUCKY said, 4 months ago

    my cousin’s uncle says that there is a lot of strikes in the sport called "bowling "
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    truecanadianliberal said, 4 months ago

    @AlexPK85

    Both you and Ashburn are true hockey fans. Sadly, the arenas are filling up again and fans have forgiven Buttman and Daly. (I blame neither Fehr nor the players.) And yet these guys take in $7MILLION a year for doing the bidding of the greedhead owners who, like most bosses (Rancid, anyone?) would pay the players nothing if they could.
    On the other hand, your (Ashburn) Flyers offered Ryan Suter $100 million contract, which is nuts, and your (Alex) Islanders are still paying off DiPietro’s ridiculous deal. Can you blame the players for taking the money?No.
    But the fans suffer.
    Except here in Toronto where they will love and cheer for the Leafs no matter how bad they are.
    At least my Habs are doing well so far, with their contingency of (hee hee!) ONE francophone Kaybecer and half a dozen Americans.

    Ashburn, is there any chance your Phillies would trade Doc back to my jays if they are contending in July?
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    Bobzilla said, 4 months ago

    I went to the Friday Night Fights and a hockey game broke out!
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