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The Cost of Missing the Playoffs at the Garden...
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:14 pm
by gstevens
The Cost of Missing the Playoffs at the GardenBy KEN BELSON
Published: April 8, 2010With two games left on their schedule, the Rangers are in danger of missing the N.H.L. playoffs for the first time in five years. That possibility would certainly be a disappointment for the team’s fans. But it would also sting the Rangers’ front office, which would forgo several million dollars for each playoff game missed.
Madison Square Garden Inc., which owns the Rangers, will certainly survive if the team misses the playoffs because the Rangers are only one part of a $1 billion enterprise that includes the Knicks, the Liberty and other sports properties; Radio City Music Hall and other theaters; and the MSG Network.
But because all N.B.A. and N.H.L. teams must keep dates open at their arenas in case they make the playoffs, the elimination of the Knicks and the Rangers from the postseason means the Garden would remain empty for many more nights in April and May.
“You can’t fill them with two weeks’ notice,” Scott O’Neil, the president of MSG Sports, the division that runs the Rangers and other sports properties, said at a recent news event. “There are more dates in the building if we’re in the playoffs.”
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Re: The Cost of Missing the Playoffs at the Garden...
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:23 pm
by orangeblobman
We're gonna need to keep the number of paragraphs pasted from copyrighted material to three (3).
Re: The Cost of Missing the Playoffs at the Garden...
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:32 pm
by MSGBallerz
sigh good job 'Antoni effin over the most historic arena in sports. Idiot.
Re: The Cost of Missing the Playoffs at the Garden...
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:34 pm
by orangeblobman
MSGBallerz wrote:sigh good job 'Antoni effin over the most historic arena in sports. Idiot.
How the heck did you get THAT from this article?
Re: The Cost of Missing the Playoffs at the Garden...
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:15 pm
by futurecash
Do you NEW YORK KNICKS fans like Your Head coach??? seems like he ruins players
Re: The Cost of Missing the Playoffs at the Garden...
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:26 pm
by richardhutnik
orangeblobman wrote:MSGBallerz wrote:sigh good job 'Antoni effin over the most historic arena in sports. Idiot.
How the heck did you get THAT from this article?
The same way that people see any article regarding the Knicks... there is a mental leap in the entire process. According to one faction, D'Antoni f's the Knicks by not doing a youth movement (which means losses and not development). According to another faction, D'Antoni f's the Knicks by not trying to win games.
- Rich
Re: The Cost of Missing the Playoffs at the Garden...
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:26 pm
by richardhutnik
futurecash wrote:Do you NEW YORK KNICKS fans like Your Head coach??? seems like he ruins players
So, the Knicks should of got multiple first rounders for ZBo and Jamal Crawford, right?
- Rich
Re: The Cost of Missing the Playoffs at the Garden...
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:34 pm
by futurecash
richardhutnik wrote:futurecash wrote:Do you NEW YORK KNICKS fans like Your Head coach??? seems like he ruins players
So, the Knicks should of got multiple first rounders for ZBo and Jamal Crawford, right?
- Rich
Umm. the coach is a player killer
Re: The Cost of Missing the Playoffs at the Garden...
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:25 pm
by Marty McFly
maybe the owner will be smarter in spending his money next time............
Re: The Cost of Missing the Playoffs at the Garden...
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:12 pm
by richardhutnik
REVOLVER wrote:maybe the owner will be smarter in spending his money next time............
Anyone here have any idea about how smart Dolan is? Anyone? Do you. Please let me know what part of Dolan gives you any indication of what he can do that is better that what he has done here.
- Rich