Denver losing appetite for Avs?

I guessing Shattenkirk's family are Star Trek fans.

Denver is first and foremost, a football town. With the other sports, they are 'bandwagon' fans. If you want to fill the Pepsi Center, win.

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Originally posted 09:27 AM ET  11.19 by ORF

Denver is first and foremost, a football town. With the other sports, they are 'bandwagon' fans. If you want to fill the Pepsi Center, win.

Nice to see you ORF. Slumming today?

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Originally posted 09:27 AM ET  11.19 by ORF

Denver is first and foremost, a football town. With the other sports, they are 'bandwagon' fans. If you want to fill the Pepsi Center, win.

Well, let's see. No Patrick Roys, Ray Bourques, Peter Forsbergs, Joe Sakics, Rob Blakes or Caude Lemieuxs in their line up.

Yep. Pretty balnd fair, if you were to ask me. Enough to make you lose your appetite.

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Originally posted 09:44 AM ET  11.19 by roamer

Well, let's see. No Patrick Roys, Ray Bourques, Peter Forsbergs, Joe Sakics, Rob Blakes or Caude Lemieuxs in their line up.Yep. Pretty balnd fair, if you were to ask me. Enough to make you lose your appetite.

Plenty of young talent on that team - but they do not have Pierre LaCroix trading for or buying every high priced FA out there

<holds hand to ear waiting for 'kill the cap'>

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Originally posted 10:04 AM ET  11.19 by BrownsBucksBlueJackets

Plenty of young talent on that team - but they do not have Pierre LaCroix trading for or buying every high priced FA out there

Sure they do. No denying it. Thing is the young talent has to earn their own rep. When they do, their fan's appetites will return.

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Originally posted 09:27 AM ET  11.19 by ORF

Denver is first and foremost, a football town. With the other sports, they are 'bandwagon' fans. If you want to fill the Pepsi Center, win.

Makes perfect sense. Although when the fans in Pgh stayed away for a while, everyone ripped them for it.

A lot you can do with that headline........

I think it has something to do with the fact that in Colorado, it's almost impossible to catch an Av's game on TV. Out of sight out of mind.

As a WingNut, Av fans (and perhaps others) may not have a lot of credibility in what I say. But unless you are a die-hard Brooklyn or Cub baseball club, your franchise will suffer when it isn't consistently at or near the top.

Live TV and radio are important, of course, and that will tend to come if the team is perceived as a winner. But as the old saying goes, "Nothing succeeds like success."

If the Broncos are a consistent winner, Denver could legitimate call itself Football town. But I doubt that even an Avs team which wins consistently would justify calling Denver (ahem) Hockeytown.

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Originally posted 10:08 AM ET  11.19 by roamer

Sure they do. No denying it. Thing is the young talent has to earn their own rep. When they do, their fan's appetites will return.

Good point - young guys have to become the everyday names in sports news - just like Roy/Sakic/Bourque/Forsberg

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Originally posted 10:05 AM ET  11.19 by BrownsBucksBlueJackets

<holds hand to ear waiting for 'kill the cap'>

They have 16 million in cap space, so that is kind of irrelevant here.

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Originally posted 09:27 AM ET  11.19 by ORF

Denver is first and foremost, a football town. With the other sports, they are 'bandwagon' fans. If you want to fill the Pepsi Center, win.

Yep no doubt. Also local fans were very fortunate/spoiled that when the franchise first moved to Denver they had star players already in place like Sakic and Forsberg... now all those stars are gone.

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Originally posted 10:08 AM ET  11.19 by LGP: Pensational!

Makes perfect sense. Although when the fans in Pgh stayed away for a while, everyone ripped them for it.

The upside was I got $15 seats at the gate when Pens fans stayed away. It wasn't winning hockey, but it was Pens Hockey!!

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Originally posted 10:32 AM ET  11.19 by NJ90

They have 16 million in cap space, so that is kind of irrelevant here.

that much? how close are they to the minimum?

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Originally posted 10:48 AM ET  11.19 by hbomb

The upside was I got $15 seats at the gate when Pens fans stayed away. It wasn't winning hockey, but it was Pens Hockey!!

15.00 seats? geez - AHL tix prices now...

Move 'em back to Q-Bec.

Although [a recent] crowd was generously announced at 12,436, the eye test made it extremely hard to believe there were more than 10,000 people in the joint.

Wasn't that a sellout in Quebec back in the day?

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Originally posted 10:50 AM ET  11.19 by BrownsBucksBlueJackets

that much? how close are they to the minimum?

I don't exactly know the minimum but I remember during the off season they were concerned about that but Atlanta has about 18.6 million is cap space.