You just signed a contract with an NHL team. Who’s on your 5 team no trade list?

[Porous Five Hole]

Figure you’re a middle of the road player and it’s a long term deal. What franchises are on your no move list? For me:

1) Toronto (toxic fanbase and overwhelming media)

2) Dallas (I just don’t want to live in the state of Texas. Not my style)

3) Winnipeg (brutal winter and heading into a rebuild)

4) Arizona (ownership/arena challenges and perpetual loser)

5) Carolina (irrational dislike given my Sabres fandom)

What about you?

[#freejame]

1) Ottawa—Middle of nowhere

2) Winnipeg—middle of nowhere

3) Calgary—middle of nowhere 

4) Edmonton—middle of nowhere 

5) Arizona—no stability 

[dudacek]

Toronto - hate the city, hate the fans, hate the spotlight

Islanders - living in Metro New York would be my nightmare

Rangers - living in Metro New York would be my nightmare

Devils - living in Metro New York would be my nightmare

Dallas - don’t think Texas would be a good fit for this Wet Coaster

 

Top 5 cities not on my NTC:

Vancouver

Seattle

San Jose

Buffalo

Montreal

- these are all about where I think I’d like to live, keeping in mind I’ve never been to the latter 2, or about 2/3rds of the league’s cities.

[GASabresIUFAN]

Wpg, AZ, and any California teams

[RochesterExpat]

The five Canadian teams with the smallest airports. I don’t want to move to Canada for half the year, sorry Canadians.

I think a more interesting question would be, “you’re a free agent and 31 teams (Buffalo is the only one missing) have made you identical offers, which 5 teams do you want your agent to negotiate with?” I think those answers might be more fun.

[#freejame]

20 minutes ago, RochesterExpat said:

The five Canadian teams with the smallest airports. I don’t want to move to Canada for half the year, sorry Canadians.

I think a more interesting question would be, “you’re a free agent and 31 teams (Buffalo is the only one missing) have made you identical offers, which 5 teams do you want your agent to negotiate with?” I think those answers might be more fun.

I like this a bit more, too:

1) Buffalo—bring home the glory

2) Denver—nowhere else I’d rather live

3) Montreal—amazing city and franchise

4) Boston—amazing city and franchise

5) Vancouver—seems like a pretty cool place 

[Curt]

Fun idea.

The 5 teams that would be on my no trade list are:

Arizona

NY Rangers

NY Islanders

Toronto 

Montreal

Just avoiding the depressing situation of Arizona, the hellscape  and high taxes of NYC, and the cultural fishbowl and high taxes of Tor and Mtl.

Maybe I would swap Montreal for another team just because that is the closest team to my family.

[LabattBlue]

Winnipeg, Arizona, Ottawa, Edmonton & St. Louis

[thewookie1]

1. Toronto
2. Boston
3. Philly
Those three are my most hated teams to be honest and I wouldn’t be able to give my all for any of them as such.
4. Montreal (but only if I have multiple years on my deal) Would waive if it’s a rental situation just to play for the storied franchise. Can’t speak French.
5. Winnipeg - so very very cold, would waive as a rental
6. Arizona - it’s just a convoluted mess
7. Ottawa - I’d want to see their new ownership in action before playing for them
8. Seattle - the state is a mess
9. Vegas - would waive for rental but they treat players like disposable tools
10. Columbus - purely due to Babcock; otherwise would be fine

 

HFBoards had a similar thread so I'll just take my answer from there.

[Weave]

Chicago

Arizona

Winnipeg

Edmonton

Any NYC team

[Porous Five Hole]

58 minutes ago, RochesterExpat said:

The five Canadian teams with the smallest airports. I don’t want to move to Canada for half the year, sorry Canadians.

I think a more interesting question would be, “you’re a free agent and 31 teams (Buffalo is the only one missing) have made you identical offers, which 5 teams do you want your agent to negotiate with?” I think those answers might be more fun.

Start a thread! 😀

[Porous Five Hole]

29 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

Winnipeg, Arizona, Ottawa, Edmonton & St. Louis

Why would St. Louis not work for you?

26 minutes ago, Weave said:

Chicago

Arizona

Winnipeg

Edmonton

Any NYC team

Chicago due to the bad citizen they have been in the past as an organization?

[shrader]

I’m avoiding the larger cities. They’re just not me. 

[Claude Balls]

1 hour ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

Wpg, AZ, and any California teams

I have Anaheim, L.A., San Jose, Arizona and Carolina. 

[Porous Five Hole]

19 minutes ago, Claude Balls said:

I have Anaheim, L.A., San Jose, Arizona and Carolina. 

Carolina haters unite 👊

[Zamboni]

TOR

WPG

EDM

VAN

OTT

 

Extending it to 10 teams …

AZ

FLA

BOS

NYR

LAK

[GASabresIUFAN]

Honestly where would you want to play?

1. Eliminate all Canadian teams - high taxes and either small markets or insane pressure cookers. Add crappy weather

2. Eliminate all California, NY and NJ teams - high taxes, band wagon markets (see all California teams), a small mkt (Buffalo and NYI) or bad places to play (NYC and NJ).

3. Eliminate all remaining poorly managed franchises like CBJ, AZ, Chicago and Philly or apathetic fanbases like Fla. 

4. I’d also eliminate Sea because what a depressing place to live.

So who’s left? LV, Minn, Stl, Det, Bos, Nash, Car, TB, Pitt, Wash, Colo, and Dallas.

Edited August 16, 2023 by GASabresIUFAN

[Randall Flagg]

1.) Toronto
2.) Ottawa
3.) Los Angeles
4.) Detroit
5.) NYI

 

[Pimlach]

Sorry Canada but high taxes, cold weather, crazy expectations and some very remote outposts

1) Winnipeg - weather, boring

2) Calgary - weather, cow town

3) Edmonton - weather, boring

4) Arizona - suck franchise

5) Toronto - hate them

6,7,8) NYR/NYI/NJD - no NYC at all

9) San Jose - bleach

10) Seattle - yuck 

 

 

[French Collection]

Toronto, can’t stand the fanbase.

Arizona, sh**show.

Florida, no real fans there. Tough choice because I would love to golf year round.

New York, too big for this guy.

Columbus, lack of success and haven’t heard many good things about the city.

[Broken Ankles]

Arizona

Winnipeg

San Jose

Boston

Philadelphia 

Mostly organizational decisions, with the exception of Boston.  Just hate the city.  Hate all the sports teams, the accents and the people.  

 

[pi2000]

Edmonton, Winnipeg, Columbus, Minnesota and Detroit

[Pimlach]

1 hour ago, French Collection said:

Toronto, can’t stand the fanbase.

Arizona, sh**show.

Florida, no real fans there. Tough choice because I would love to golf year round.

New York, too big for this guy.

Columbus, lack of success and haven’t heard many good things about the city.

You won’t be golfing in the summer.  Maybe 6:00 am to 10:30 am

[PerreaultForever]

Arizona. 

Then idk. Probably Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton. All that cold prairie stuff even though they have rabid fan bases. 

Right now it would be any of the bottom feeders like Anaheim and San Jose since they are years away from being good but that's temporary. 

I guess Columbus. 

[Randall Flagg]

9 hours ago, French Collection said:

Toronto, can’t stand the fanbase.

Arizona, sh**show.

Florida, no real fans there. Tough choice because I would love to golf year round.

New York, too big for this guy.

Columbus, lack of success and haven’t heard many good things about the city.

FWIW the few people I know who have lived in Columbus really liked it.