there is no Cordwainer Siith forum.

But I'm glad you thought of that!

But was wary of the excessive violence which would go on in it.

The "Winter Classic" was once a year and sometimes it was dicey. Half the games outside would mean a lot of cancellations.

is ruining it. For some reason, too, there hasn't really been a big name since Sidney Crosby (I know there is talent, like Conor Bedard and Ovechkin, but who outside of hockey fans have heard of them?)

There also aren't any fan-grabbing rivalries at the moment.

Too bad, it's a great product, poorly marketed. Stupid names like the Kraken do not help. That was a bone thrown to the tech crowd tastes, but they aren't really sports fans.

(It's also expensive. When the Kraken franchise started I looked into getting tickets to a Red Wings game and it would have been cheaper to fly to Detroit and watch them play there, including the flight and hotel).

Spit-balling here.

Certainly not hockey-related things like dancing to "Cotton-Eyed Joe" and singing "The Good Old Hockey Game" and throwing hats on the ice for a hat trick and drinking beer with Canadians.



Happy New Year!

Start small. Hockey rink size and then bigger.

Here's one idea I bequeath to the University of Maine Orono. Create a paper product, using recycled paper, with seeds and embedded fertilizer. We lost the area of Maine each year to desertification.

...and have been a fan my whole life.
But the ignorance of some people to the sport is unbelievable.