2011-2012 NHL Playoff Thread: MOOSE NOOSE ON THE LOOSE

[Ishido]

1.4 million for the 2008 parade in Detroit.
375,000 for the Pens in 2009
2 million for Chicago in 2010
1 million for Boston in 2011

Congrats for outdoing Anaheim and Carolina I suppose!

[bluefan]

WTF? Pens only had that many?

[Deader2818]

Kings also don't have a lot of room in down town Los Angeles.

Seriously though, people need to just stop being ignorant about hockey in LA.

[synistar]

Would have been a bigger crowd if it were on Friday. Stuck at work instead of partying it up.

[Ishido]

WTF? Pens only had that many?

I was a bit surprised too, but it's the smallest metro area of those 4. It also doesn't have additional draws like the Wings having Canada (Windsor) in close proximity and probably a more "diehard" bandwagon that had been going for 10+ years.

[Ivaden]

It was also on a weekday in the late morning/afternoon on Belmont Avenue, which isn't that big really. Majority of the people who "attended" the parade were in the parking garage across the street from the Art Institute, and that parking garage is only four or five floors, can't remember despite using it for four years.

[Palin]

An urban sprawl style city doesn't have as much attend a parade as European-style cities like Boston and Chicago? Nowai

[Palin]

Quick just dropped like 3 f-bombs haha.

[synistar]

LOL @ Quick dropping the F-Bombs at the rally. Like 5 of them hahahahaha.

[Brill Weave]

WTF? Pens only had that many?

Most people consider Pittsburgh a "big" town. In terms of population the city of Pittsburgh is NOWHERE near the size of the other cities. The total population of the city proper is just over 300k.

[bluefan]

So basically it's Winnipeg?

[Ivaden]

Well, no, it's not a miserable place to live.

[bluefan]

Well, no, it's not a miserable place to live.

Not quite miserable enough to bother me.

[Ivaden]

If it ain't good enough for Bryz, it ain't good enough for me.

[Richybear]

Why you heff to be 'vad?

[bluefan]

If it ain't good enough for Bryz, it ain't good enough for me.

That's pretty low.

Spoiler: show

Standards I mean.

[Sepukku]

Quick wiki check:

LA: 3,790,000 people (2nd largest in USA)
Chicago: 2,695,000 people (3rd largest in USA)

Pittsburgh: 305,000 people (59th largest in USA, just ahead of Corpus Christi, Texas and just behind cities like Aurora, Colorado and Santa Ana, California)

When considering suburban sprawl, the metropolitan Pittsburgh region jumps to 2.3 million, but that still only makes it 22nd amongst all metropolitan regions in the USA, where as Boston has roughly double that at 4.59 million (10th), Chicago almost quadrupling that with 9.5 million (3rd), and LA more than 5x as much with 12.9 million (2nd).

City of Winnepeg is ~650,000 population, with metropolitan being ambiguous, as all the city populations were very close (although not identical) to their corresponding metropolitan areas for those cities. Perhaps Canada defines metropolitan areas differently or the neighborhood layout systems are different.

[BadKarma]

derp wrong thread

[Brill Weave]

So basically it's Winnipeg?

Subtract three Stanley Cups and we're getting warm.

[bluefan]

Subtract three Stanley Cups and we're getting warm.