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I knew where Thunder Bay was and then I googled Sudbury and it's two thirds the way to Toronto with probably more moose than humans between.
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pseudodragon posted:To sum up the article quickly: his brilliant methodology for determining the best markets for the NHL to expand to was population x % of people google. So his Thunder Bay-Sudbury Metropolitan area of 500k people where 52% of people googled NHL is a better expansion market than Houston where only 2% of it's 6 million people did. It's also why we don't have an OHL team despite having the population and interest. We're too isolated.
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For some reason i read Thunder Bay and was like "was that the hulk hogan show?" but no that was Thunder in Paradise.
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Apr 27, 2023 05:12
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All i know about Sudbury comes from Shoresy and that town definitely deserves an NHL franchise.
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Apr 27, 2023 05:20
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Sudbury has a great song written about it
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Apr 27, 2023 05:22
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Sudbury to thunder bay is only what, a 10, 11 hour drive? totally reasonable to stick a hockey arena halfway between the two somewhere in lake superior that everyone will drive/swim 5 hours to.
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Apr 27, 2023 07:12
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Isle Royale National Park could use a hockey team.
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A Canadian expansion team would pretty much have to be Quebec City or Hamilton, right?
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sportsgenius86 posted:A Canadian expansion team would pretty much have to be Quebec City or Hamilton, right? Pretty much, and a Hamilton team would have to pay out the nose for proximity rights or whatever it's called because of how close it is to Toronto
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Pretty much, and a Hamilton team would have to pay out the nose for proximity rights or whatever it's called because of how close it is to Toronto Also Buffalo. pre-pandemic I think it was in the neighbourhood of 15% of season ticket holders for the Sabres lived on the Canadian side of the border.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Isle Royale National Park could use a hockey team. They could skate on the lake on and island on an lake on an island
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pseudodragon posted:To sum up the article quickly: his brilliant methodology for determining the best markets for the NHL to expand to was population x % of people google. So his Thunder Bay-Sudbury Metropolitan area of 500k people where 52% of people googled NHL is a better expansion market than Houston where only 2% of it's 6 million people did. Also as a hockey fan I don't think I've ever googled NHL, so I'm not counted in the 'avid fans' numbers in Northern Alberta  Bip Roberts posted:They could skate on the lake on and island on an lake on an island That's Manitoulin!
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Apr 27, 2023 15:59
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Sudbury-Thunder Bay? Oh, you mean the Twin Cities?
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Apr 27, 2023 16:10
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You'd have more luck with a Duluth-Thunder Bay international team tbh
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i only know of thunder bay cuz my grandpa was the child of finnish immigrants. largest community of finns outside finland
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My knowledge of Thunder Bay is that it is the hometown of David Letterman's bandleader Paul Shaffer.
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Apr 28, 2023 03:14
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Mr. Fix It posted:i only know of thunder bay cuz my grandpa was the child of finnish immigrants. largest community of finns outside finland A good friend of mine would always bring back Finnish bread from some bakery there. When it closed a couple years ago they FLEW BACK just to get bread one last time.
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A friend of mine is in Thunder Bay for an event this weekend, she lives in California. When I got the text asking if I might show up, I replied back with the Google Maps screenshots of Thunder Bay being farther from metro Detroit than Atlanta.
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I only know about Thunder Bay because its one of like 5 cities you can direct flights to out of this cute little airport in Toronto that is actually on the lake. It's called Billy Bishop airport and you have to take a ferry to get to the concourse.
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Thunder Bay is also the meth capital of Canada.
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Beef Of Ages posted:Thunder Bay is also the meth capital of Canada. Are you sure? Because I’ve been to Campbell River.
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It's easy to build several capitals when you do that much meth
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Mr. Fix It posted:i only know of thunder bay cuz my grandpa was the child of finnish immigrants. largest community of finns outside finland Michigan's Upper Peninsula is also stacked with Finns. My maternal grandparents were both Finnish immigrants and lived in Ironwood, MI.
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Budweiser-drinking peeps https://twitter.com/mdotbrown/status/1653795853977395209?s=20
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Inspector_666 posted:Budweiser-drinking peeps Finally going after Embiid for what really matters: his drink of choice being sugary and nonalcoholic
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It really sucks that Mike Kiszla still has a job at the Denver Post after they loving gutted the paper just as a sports outrage merchant. But it does continue in the grand tradition started by Woody Paige.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I only know about Thunder Bay because its one of like 5 cities you can direct flights to out of this cute little airport in Toronto that is actually on the lake. It's called Billy Bishop airport and you have to take a ferry to get to the concourse. haha Billy Bishop has flights to 20 or so places now and there's an underground pedestrian tunnel as well. It is definitely a better airport experience than Pearson though.
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Beef Of Ages posted:Thunder Bay is also the meth capital of Canada. No it isn't, opiates are the issue around here
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I wouldn’t read much into it
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:haha Billy Bishop has flights to 20 or so places now and there's an underground pedestrian tunnel as well. It is definitely a better airport experience than Pearson though. Oh wow, I lived in Toronto for a year in 2015 so things have changed. It was always so much better than Pearson since it did fly to Boston and was so easy to access from downtown.
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General Dog posted:I wouldn’t read much into it It was bad enough that the other day the Ohio Gaming Commission shut down all betting on Alabama baseball games earlier in the week. There was probably a lot of money flying around.
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General Dog posted:I wouldn’t read much into it It's not like anybody got murdered or anything
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https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7229111718864112939 Really good ending beat here
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xbilkis posted:https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7229111718864112939 As soon as I saw the NFL mention I knew the dude had confused him for Bomani, he's such a boogeyman for these people. Also Jamelle is an incredibly pro follow on TikTok, dude is so good at breaking down heady/historical concepts into the simple basics.
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Oh loving Christ of COURSE it's a Celtics fan. Jamelle Bouie rules. He's a pro follow on Twitter as well. And even ignoring all his other, myriad, laudable qualities, his cereal reviews are worth it all on their own: https://twitter.com/seriouseats/status/1403385806786531328?lang=en habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 02:56 on May 5, 2023 |
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Inspector_666 posted:As soon as I saw the NFL mention I knew the dude had confused him for Bomani, he's such a boogeyman for these people. My immediate assumption was the guy doesn’t actually follow ESPN at all and thought he was the Jemele Hill person he reads about on his alt right twitter follows.
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sportsgenius86 posted:My immediate assumption was the guy doesn’t actually follow ESPN at all and thought he was the Jemele Hill person he reads about on his alt right twitter follows. When the wraparound sunglasses brigade was yelling at The Athletic for hiring her was a fun couple of weeks on Twitter.
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