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Well, they're supporting them now that they've made the playoffs two years in a row and are winning. The year before, they had the 4th worst attendance in the league and it was no problem to buy nosebleeds and then sneak into empty seats in the lower bowl, 10 rows back on the blue line. I'm a believer that it takes 20-30 years to truly grow a fan base in an area completely new to hockey, but the signs definitely don't look good in places like Florida and Phoenix. Kids that grew up on hockey are now getting to the age of being season ticket holders and taking their own kids to games, but that doesn't seem to be happening. Gosh, it was all the way back in 2010 when Montreal beat Washington and Pittsburgh. Can't believe it has been that long already!

Patrick Roy is returning to the Remparts. In case anyone was worried.

Cool downvote bro

It was tongue in cheek, obviously. And frankly no amount of MB-bashing is sufficient to suit me, after the garbage he's put us through for the past 3 years.

I suppose Bergevin didn't want to wait for my scouting report, as he has signed center Alex Alain from the QMJHL.

Pencil me in #TeamJets !

I get it. Personally I never really got behind the whole Leafs/Habs rivalry though. Toronto hasn’t been a threat for so long, I really stopped caring about them. Obviously fans and the media are super annoying. The Bruins though, now there is a rivalry I can get behind.

I am literally only watching him play when he is on the ice tonight and I feel like I might be a better signing as a 35 year old.

Why? MB would probably trade the pick to Minny to try and reunite the Suter-Weber pairing.

Isn't there enough material on screwups that MB actually has done, that we shouldn't have to make up stupid moves that he hasn't made to bash him with? Its gotten old, and fast.

Columbus has a real die-hard fan base - that's a REAL expansion success story, where the fans support the team even after two decades of futility. Screw this Las Vegas or Colorado Avalanche bull-dink where the city gets a stacked team, and screw this PHX-FLA bull-crap where useless and unloved franchises are kept on life support so Gary Butthead can prove a point. That said, there is a special kind of pathetic in seeing an all-time great player like Ovechkin, and teams that were stacked enough to win, failing over and over again in the playoffs. I delighted in seeing them fail when they were cocky youngsters (and especially in 2010!!) but by this point it's wince-inducing. Like the core in San Jose, they need a deep run to redeem their basic dignity and not have a huge shadow over their entire careers.

Kudos to MB for signing the franchise's best C!