Impact of Potential Rebuild on the Penguins and Team Fans

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00:00you know thinking about Sullivan if Dubas came to him and was like listen you know and the Fenway

00:05people were like listen where you know I know we still got Sid and all but we're gonna start the

00:10wheels of like really starting this thing over you know we're we're gonna be you know ripping

00:16things down and we're gonna try to rebuild and do all that we played that clip a couple weeks ago of

00:21him talking about rebuilding the team good luck it would it wouldn't stun me if Sullivan with some

00:28of these other higher profile jobs out there like the Rangers and the Bruins for him to be like listen

00:35maybe we should cut the cord here I don't want to do a rebuild I've won two cups I want to try win

00:39another one before I'm done it wouldn't stun me if Sully wanted out if they told him they were going

00:44to rip the whole thing down that was let me ask you this um so here's here's the way I see it

00:50you strip that thing down as you call it studs and bolts or whatever let me tell you what's going to

00:57happen to that uh fancy ppg arena that you uh fill up every night it's gonna be half full no one's

01:04gonna go because when they lost back in the 80s nobody went to the igloo nobody went to the games

01:10no one was paying do you know how much money it costs to go to a penguin game I mean decent seats two

01:16of them are three hundred dollars those are decent those are decent seats I'm not even talking good

01:21seats like bad seats are a hundred dollars so no way are people gonna pay that money in this economy

01:30to go watch that crappy Shaq team that never wins and don't tell me they're just gonna pay a hundred

01:39dollars to go watch Sidney Crosby you know what they've already done that and won three Stanley Cups

01:44with him been there done that thanks so much they won't even watch on television and while I'm at it

01:52I've said this before I'll say it again they got crappy announcers too I mean they have turned that

01:57thing into the biggest joke money can buy Mike Lang is turning in his grave I could call games they're

02:06better on a bottle of tequila than those boring ass stiffs they got calling their games and that loser

02:12hack kid GM and now no one's gonna go to that arena trust me you next year we're gonna be talking

02:20about this and I'm gonna make fun of them until no end when that place is half full every night watch

02:25yeah it's one of the things uh people don't understand about I get oh where are the fans

02:30where are the fans unless you are you know you know the rangers the red wings the bruins you know

02:37these teams yes they sell out every night whether the team's good or bad their original six teams

02:42they're all everywhere else in hockey if the team isn't good people aren't there now I got they got

02:50the same problem on Long Island right now they built a new arena three years ago this year second half of

02:54the year it was empty why are no one going on their games because since the island were brought into

03:01creation if the team isn't good people don't go that was right in the 80s in the 80s everyone was

03:08there because they were the best team in hockey when the team is good people are there whether

03:13they're playing in the dump or they're playing in the Shangri-La it doesn't make a difference just

03:18because you're in a fancy new building doesn't mean people are going to spend 125 bucks to go sit and

03:24watch a mediocre to less hockey team so it's just it doesn't matter it's a $500 three-hour excursion

03:32you go there it's 300 for seats it's 200 for drinks and food it's 500 bucks to watch them lose I have

03:40gone to see them play you know 20 times and it's always full those days are over it's over if they're

03:48stripping it down and then they get rid of Sullivan get ready to lose money they are going to lose money

03:56hand over fist as a franchise I guarantee it I guarantee it in fact I got to get a hold of Lemieux

04:03myself and tell him somebody has to tell him to stop the bleeding I saw him at the airport believe me we

04:09talked I told him I go I could do it better high and drunk than these stiffs you got calling the games

04:15they're so bad I don't even know their names and they've gone through like five of them they've had

04:20every other person try that seat and they can't do it you can't replace Mike Lang only Pharrell

04:26I can do it not only that I can do better than Kyle Dubas he's a you know what a giant P