# Hockeytown, USA **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [May 10, 2007, 5:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hockeytown-usa/29059 "2007-05-10T05:46:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Twizted](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/twizted/32/7206_2.png) [@Twizted](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Twizted)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 5:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hockeytown-usa/29059/1 "2007-05-10T05:46:12Z")
It’s what they used to call Detroit. According to WGRZ, the Red Wings obliterating San Jose pulled a 30 share in Detroit. The Sabres eliminating the Rangers earned channel 2 a _60 share_. I can’t find the ratings for New York on Sunday, but Friday’s game struggled to break 1.5. In New York, one share equals 74,000 homes; in Buffalo, it’s 6,400. That means, assuming Sunday’s game pulled a 2.0 share in New York, 384,000 homes watched the game in WNY while 148,000 people in the New York market bothered. And if you had the sense that NBC was rooting for the Rangers, [you might very well be right](http://ge.bloggingstocks.com/2007/04/30/why-nbc-is-rooting-for-the-rangers-in-nhl-playoffs/). [http://buffalopundit.wnymedia.net/archives/5272](http://buffalopundit.wnymedia.net/archives/5272) ---
**Author:** ![TgDn32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tgdn32/32/7360_2.png) [@TgDn32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TgDn32)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hockeytown-usa/29059/2 "2007-05-10T06:43:50Z")
:tup: Good info. ---
**Author:** ![JezikaTee1983](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@JezikaTee1983](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JezikaTee1983)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hockeytown-usa/29059/3 "2007-05-10T07:15:06Z")
> **[Another Hockeytown](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/sports/hockey/04sabres.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin)** > > Five years after a traditionally strong hockey market seemed in danger of losing its team, the Buffalo Sabres’ woes seem like ancient history. good article in the nytimes ---
**Author:** ![JDMR2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jdmr2/32/7587_2.png) [@JDMR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMR2)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hockeytown-usa/29059/4 "2007-05-10T10:50:18Z")
the hockeytown bar in detroit is an overpriced dump fwiw ---
**Author:** ![badazzss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@badazzss](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/badazzss)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hockeytown-usa/29059/5 "2007-05-10T11:46:00Z")
^ truth. terrible food. and pretty ug waitresses for the most part. except a certain fbod driver we know will hit on anything after he’s had a few. haha ---
**Author:** ![JDMR2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jdmr2/32/7587_2.png) [@JDMR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMR2)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hockeytown-usa/29059/6 "2007-05-10T12:15:04Z")
[quote=“badazzss,post:5,topic:29059"”] ^ truth. terrible food. and pretty ug waitresses for the most part. except a certain fbod driver we know will hit on anything after he’s had a few. haha [/quote] lol, thats you ---
**Author:** ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hockeytown-usa/29059/7 "2007-05-10T12:23:54Z")
no “hockeytown” should see attendance like this during a game: ![http://cdn.nhl.com/images/upload/2007/05/frozen_inside051007.jpg](http://cdn.nhl.com/images/upload/2007/05/frozen_inside051007.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hockeytown-usa/29059/8 "2007-05-10T12:37:53Z")
especially during a playoff game…which is quite similar though someone wrote in to ESPN at one point and pointed out the economic hardship that Detroit is going through. There is a lot of unease with all of the major US car manufacturers laying off a good chunk of it workers and such… Not that Buffalo is in great economic condition but detroit is far worse off…I have family living there and they say it is really bad