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11/27 GDT

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I'm thinking tomorrow would be a great day for a Detroit double header. Knicks play at 1:30 pm and the Wings play at 5pm. Anyone wanna go? Is that do-able? I've never been (to The Palace) but figure it's only about a 45 minute drive between the two.

In interesting hockey news today, NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly was on the IC radio show and had an interesting take on Atlanta as a sports market:

When asked on today’s show about the market potential of the city of Atlanta:

“I would acknowledge that Atlanta historically has been a difficult sports market, and I can’t exactly put my finger on it as to why that’s been the case. You make good points when you point to the fact that the Atlanta Braves make the playoffs 13 consecutive years in baseball, where it is a little more difficult to make the playoffs. And they are having difficulty selling out their home playoff games, which, you would think in most markets is unheard of. So, Atlanta has proven to be a very difficult market.”

“Again, it might be a situation where the building location isn’t ideal in that market, and if it was built in a different location within the Atlanta Metropolitan location, it might be drawing better. But those are all issues that are important issues, obviously the building is not moving. We’re going to have to look at the long term prospects of that franchise, and if the determination is made that it can’t make it there, and can’t be successful there, then something will have to be done.”

Full interview, click here.

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Anyone seen the league standings recently? Nobody is significantly further apart from their nearest neighbor. http://www.nhl.com/ice/standings.htm?season=20102011&type=LEA

I wonder what that would look like as a curve in statistics. It's been a while for me but seems as if it would have nearly no altitude whatsoever.

I guess if the league wants parity then they get it.

EDIT: I don't exactly remember: Was it like this last year?

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