Red Wings Schedule 16-17 Farewell to the Joe
Red Wings released their schedule for their final season at Joe Louis Arena
http://redwings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=886654
The Big Ten related twist is on March 18 the Wings are playing Colorado in the afternoon and the Big Ten Championship game is that evening also at the Joe.
Go Wings! and Go Blue!
Man we cannot play well in the playoffs....
No you cannot. One day Ovi will be able to take you guys all the way.
Hello Gordie Howe Arena...
Little Ceasars Pizza Pizza Large Deep Dish For Just $7 Arena
It'll always be "the Joe."
or the Pizza Pit., for short...
Have we decided what we are calling Little Caesar's Arena? Colloquially I don't even plan to refer to it as "Little Caesar's Arena".
LCA? The Arena? The Coliseum? Gordie Howe Arena?
Whatever happens, happens. I remember people tried to force "The Copa" onto Comerica Park and nobody cared. "Let's all decide what to nickname this thing" is phony and doesn't work.
That's true, but at least Comerica rolls off the tongue (at least in my opinion).
There's no way I'm calling that place Little Caesar's Arena.
Gordie Howe Rink at Joe Louis Arena would've been sweet.
Are they tearing down the Joe after the new one is built?
It seems that they could link JLA and Cobo Center and make it a state of the art convention center with hotel. Would help to land more conventions and other big events.
The Joe site was given to FGIC as part of Detroit's bankruptcy deal. Detroit will demolish the arena and a parking garage, and FGIC will build something (currently supposed to be a hotel/office/retail space) on it.
long stadium names and apply shorter tags, wouldn't Little Caesar's Arena or Gordie Howe Arena, come to be abbreviated as LCA or GHA? Just wondering out loud.
What a downgrade in naming... from the great Joe Louis to freaking Little Ceasars. FFS, at least name it after Gordie Howe.
I will still call it Joe Louis Arena.
When you consider the actual story of the restaurant and that supposedly "Little Caesar" was Marian's pet name for Mike back in the day, it actually gives the prospect of calling this new place "Little Caesar's Arena" a creepy undertone. One of the advantages to calling it Gordie Howe Arena instead, I would think, is so one's mind doesn't remember that story and....blech....go there.
If your wife nicknames you the little Cesar!
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Call me crazy, but I kinda like the idea of calling it The Dough.
The Dough and Pizzarena are what most people are calling it. Then again...if enough people call it Gordie Howe Arena there's nothing they can do about it. Personally, I think naming the new bridge after Gordie is enough of an honor. Just wish they named it something that's easier to say and doesn't have the word "Little" in it. Chevrolet or GM Arena would have been a corporate name, but a name that represents the city and doesn't sound dumb.
for this stadium were a tricky subject for the Illitch's I'm sure. Gordie Howe Arena is what it should be. But in modern sports nameing rights is an important revenue for the teams or city that owns the stadium and for the payee an important tax proposition. There is no way this stadium was not going to have a crappy corporate name attached to it.
is a lot of non-revenue. Its discounted advertising for Little Caesars.
Look, this arena will be named Little Caesars Arena whether we like it or not; there is no changing that. But what the Wings could do is name the ice after Howe. At least that makes it a little better.
The Joe was my second home growing up.
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Yeah, but that's the same place, just a name change. This is an entirely different building.
From what I hear 'round the campfire it sounds like maybe the big question is will this schedule feature Steven Stamkos wearing the Winged Wheel? I'd love the signal that they're trying to go for it all, but I don't really feel the Wings are only one player away from contender status, even if that player is elite. The young pieces it will cost (assuming it's a sign-and-trade) would constitute a big risk if it's not guaranteed to make you a contender.
I'm pretty sure they would get sued by the Caeser's Palace in Vegas. If they were gonna go that route, Ceasers Colosseum made the most sense.