Battle of North America GNT

[Darkstone42]

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Who knows how it all went down, and what the exact numbers are?

I just know that no matter how it looks, Buffalo is still a great Hockey town no matter what people think.

Im not trying to pile on your city ... about 2/3rds of the ticket packages were sold to cdns ... like i said in the previous post this tournament is a tsn creation ... the marketing machine has built this tournament up to obscene levels for canadians when, in reality, when you take a step back, the competition level aside from 5 maybe 6 teams isnt entirely magical


The fact that all those red-clad fans have turned Buffalo into a Canadian city for 11 days shouldn’t surprise anybody who’s been paying attention. When Grand Forks, N.D., hosted the tournament in 2005, Canadians travelling from Manitoba filled the arenas.

“We expected Canadians to be a big part of this and we welcome them,” said Buffalo tournament public relations director Michael Gilbert.

Canadians have purchased 64 per cent of the 12,100 all-inclusive passes and Gilbert estimates that they have accounted for a similar portion of the 320,000 tickets sold to date.

 

[BOSSMANPC]

Sorry I ran out of gas last night and couldn't stay up.

Congrats to the Canadians and I hope the win it all.

 

[BOSSMANPC]

BTW, I think the city has done a good job of hosting this. Next month the Labatts pond hockey tournament is being held downtown at the Erie Basin Marina and sold out the first day with teams, 124 I believe, this is a good hockey city and I am proud of it and will brush off any negative comments about it because the positive far out weigh the negatives.

That tournament started three or four years ago and was a one day event., Now it has grow to a three day event with teams as far away as Texas competing.

Buffalo loves hockey !

 

[IPostedWhat]

Im not trying to pile on your city ... about 2/3rds of the ticket packages were sold to cdns ... like i said in the previous post this tournament is a tsn creation ... the marketing machine has built this tournament up to obscene levels for canadians when, in reality, when you take a step back, the competition level aside from 5 maybe 6 teams isnt entirely magical


The fact that all those red-clad fans have turned Buffalo into a Canadian city for 11 days shouldn’t surprise anybody who’s been paying attention. When Grand Forks, N.D., hosted the tournament in 2005, Canadians travelling from Manitoba filled the arenas.

“We expected Canadians to be a big part of this and we welcome them,” said Buffalo tournament public relations director Michael Gilbert.

Canadians have purchased 64 per cent of the 12,100 all-inclusive passes and Gilbert estimates that they have accounted for a similar portion of the 320,000 tickets sold to date.

At least you took the time to post information to go off of instead of just saying that you are disappointed in the City of Buffalo.

I never doubted that Canadians would represent their team in large numbers given the situation.

 

[dare2be]

Anyone else notice that you can't have a non-sequitur without "quit"?

 

[IPostedWhat]

Anyone else notice that you can't have a non-sequitur without "quit"?

 

[dare2be]

Removed my joke. The joke only worked when your image didn't.

 

[Slimpikins]

At least you took the time to post information to go off of instead of just saying that you are disappointed in the City of Buffalo.

I never doubted that Canadians would represent their team in large numbers given the situation.

I'm dissapointed in the City of Buffalo but it has nothing to do with this tournament.

I won't get into it here but it knows what it did...

 

[IPostedWhat]

I'm dissapointed in the City of Buffalo but it has nothing to do with this tournament.

I won't get into it here but it knows what it did...

In all fairness, you did ask someone to explain what a Buffalo Knuckle Sandwich with a Tossed Salad on the side is.

Late night at Denny's isn't for everyone.

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

Congrats to Canada on the win. Good luck against Russia. I'll be cheering for you.

 

[Slimpikins]

In all fairness, you did ask someone to explain what a Buffalo Knuckle Sandwich with a Tossed Salad on the side is.

Late night at Denny's isn't for everyone.

I ordered the crab not crabs, theres a big f'ing difference!

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Too late?

 

[IPostedWhat]

Too late?

 

[IPostedWhat]

and.....

300!

Congrats everyone, we did it!

 

[elocomotive]

and.....

300!

Congrats everyone, we did it!

Wooo! Woooo!

 

[ritari330]

and.....

300!

Congrats everyone, we did it!

 

[Destroydacre]

At least you took the time to post information to go off of instead of just saying that you are disappointed in the City of Buffalo.

I never doubted that Canadians would represent their team in large numbers given the situation.

You really need a reality check. I don't know what part is worse though the fact that you actually do think I slammed Buffalo or the fact that you're so broken up that you're still throwing a hissy fit about it. Pretty common on here for you though, you seem to do it every few weeks, so maybe it's not everyone else, maybe it's you and that extremely thin skin you've got.

 

[elocomotive]

Too late?

Guess not.

 

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