Its hard being a Florida Panthers fan.When you mention you're from Miami, everyone will bring up the Heat, the Dolphins, the Hurricanes, or the Marlins. They always forget about the Panthers. They're always like "Hockey? In Florida? Surely you jest" and Miami totally forgot about the consecutive sellouts and the unstoppable squads that the Panthers had in the 90's, with greats like Scott Mellanby, John Vanbiesbrouck, and Pavel Bure lacing up skates in South Florida.Sure, its a very lean period for the Florida Panthers. Yes, attendance is crap because our arena is in the middle of the swamp. But god damn it, I've been a Panthers fan because I'm from Miami and hockey is my favorite sport.Its pathetic that, to get attendance numbers up, they comp tickets. Its also sad that whenever a team from the Northeast or any Canadian team visits the Bankatlantic Center, the road fans outnumber the home fans, and it feels like a fucking away game. I'm fucking tired of it. Also, Canadafags always joke that the Panthers should fold or be moved to Canada.The Panthers are a legit NHL team. I want the team to be respected in professional hockey. We play a solid game, and have an awesome squad this year. This will be the year we make the playoffs.In the meantime, fuck you guys. Go Cats.
>>434582And Hanley Ramirez>>434579Go away, noob.
The Panthers have future NHL star Shawn Matthias..........thats itJayBo will be traded
>>434590>JayBo will be tradedTo the Wild for Marian Gaborik
LOL Luongo
>>434600This.You guys had a good fucking thing going until Mike Keenan fucked it all up by trading away all the good players for old fogies...remember how briefly Todd Bertuzzi played for you turds?
>>434631Weekend games pull in 35,000 people. Games during the week usually have like 12,000 people.Panthers games average about 16,500 in attendance. Again, weekends are better.
>>434631Attendance for the Marlins is shit because of rainouts and because Florida is humid as fuck...the Marlins have one of the highest TV ratings in the MLB
Miamifag here...Here's a typical scenario for Florida sports teams...Dolphins: FUCK THERE IS NO FUCKING PARKING SHIT THAT NIGGER JUST CUT ME OFF FUCK SO MUCH TRAFFIC WHAT'S THIS PATDOWN METAL DETECTOR BULLSHIT WHAT THE FUCK $16 FOR A BEER?!Heat: FUCK I HAVE TO GIVE THIS NIGGER $20 TO PARK IN THIS LOT AND I HAVE TO WALK THROUGH THE GHETTO...FUCK THESE NIGGERS ARE THROWING POPCORN ALL OVER MY NEW HEAT JERSEYMarlins: FUCK ITS RAININGPanthers: YES FREE PARKING!!!! FUCK NOBODY'S HERE...$200 FOR A JERSEY WTF
>>434648truth. for the heat, i hated walking through the ghetto area from the parking to the arena. and i always passed this camilla center where homeless people got their free food. and for the fins, there was always parking because we usually went early to tailgate.
>>434634Free parking is probably the only reason why half of them go in the first place.