NHL NEW: Tavares contract is a ruse to force new arena deal! How the Islanders could have made their old arena the hottest ticket in the NHL

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Have you been biting your nails, quivering like a young school girl, dreading how the John Tavares situation will turn out? Becoming incontinent at the thought of John Tavares's pending UFA status and whether he will, like Steven Stamkos before him, sign with "His" team after all?


Relax, there Betty Bloodpressure....


...Don't think it isn't possible that the Islanders and Tavares are in on this together.


The Arena thing has been dragging on for years, it's possible that they colluded to make it seem as if it wasn't taken care of, the Islanders would lose their franchise player and move soon after.

Then whoever was on the other end of negotiations, the county, or whoever, finally took them seriously and said "Hmm, no, this team does have a positive economic impact, long-term, it's better for the county to keep them"

The problem with the Islanders is that they never put a gun to anyone's head and said "Either we get the arena, or were gone"


Consequently, the people on the other side of the negotiating table always knew they could back burner the Islanders because they never forced anyone to take them seriously, I mean, how many decades has this been going on?

I've never been to a game at War Memorial Nassau Coliseum (Which I regret) but I actually played there once when I was on the Van's Warped tour (Well, the stages were actually set up in the parking lots and on the grounds, but I went up to the building and pressed my face to the glass, looked AMAZING in there, It took a security guard who was not impressed with my backstage laminante to make me leave) , and honestly, if they marketed the arena properly, as in, "This is a legitimate old school hockey experience we are selling, not a corporate luxury library. We are selling the raucous hockey experience you grew up with". Then done things like having organ music exclusively, sell cheap beer in paper cups (They would make money on volume sales, probably more than teams make now selling overpriced swill) reserve 2,000 lower bowl tickets that are sold via lottery at $10 a pop, this is to ensure that the lower bowl area is constantly rocking with rowdy loud fans. And then introduced some sort of school bus type service, where people could be picked up and dropped off after games. 


This serves two purposes:


1. Eliminate drunk driving to and from games, also let it publicly be known that the team will not tolerate it. Strip season tickets holders of their seats if any are arrested for drunk driving. Have sobriety checks when exiting the official parking lots and have "spotters" watching the unofficial lots. Complete and total crackdown for public safety and saving lives. 

2. Party bus! Can you imagine how much fun it would be to ride two and from games in a beat-up old school bus full of other fans? It would quickly become THE most fun you can have on Long Island. (Also, have this service for Rangers games! It would be like the booster club in "Slap Shot" I honestly think that once people heard about this, the Islanders would be the hottest ticket in town, it would be next level fun)

So, in conclusion, I think the Islanders have their new arena, I think Tavares was in on it all along,

BUT


I think the Islanders have missed a major opportunity to set themselves apart from the rest of the league.


And isn't this the problem with the modern NHL? Everyone is the SAME, everyone plays the SAME, every arena is the SAME

Back in the day, and I'm not exaggerating when the Islanders and the Rangers played it was like a Scottish Football game. Like Sham 69's song "war on the terraces" there was fighting on the ice, there was fighting in the stands, it was WAR! it was fun.


IT WAS HOCKEY.....was...

So, congratulations Islanders and John Tavares......as for us fans, it is too bad....they took away what we loved most about the game...and everything we loved was in the War Memorial area.


If you never made it there, take my word for it.

It was the last great hockey arena in the NHL.


Was.....was.....was.....

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