It's very slow in the Hockey Section today! So......?

Question

I think this has been asked before, but I will revisit it and sacrific my 5 points to amuse you (hopefully).

You have just won the lottery. You decide that a fun way to spend some of the money is to open up a Sports Bar and Grille! Congratulations, lets get to work. It must be an NHL theme.

1.) What is it called? Where is it located?

2.) What player would you want to co-own it with you?

3.) What would your signature dish be?

4.) How would it be decorated? More detail the better.

5.) Any in game specials?

6.) Any other key details you want to add?

I'll post mine in a minute.

Answer 1

My joint:

1. The Mid-Ice Crisis (or Big Bad Motherpuckers), located in the rejuvinated downtown Pittsburgh, PA!

2. Hmmm...he seems to already do a decent job as a team owner, so co-owning a sports bar and grille should be no sweat for Mario Lemieux!

3. The Stanley Cup Champion- a filet mignon served with carmelized onions, sauteed peppers, spices, and two sides: a fully loaded twice-baked potato and cinnamon apples.

4. Naturally, it would be decked out with Pittsburgh Penguins gear, including a replica of every jersey design the team wore during their history on the walls, along with Stanley Cup (and Eastern Conference champion....d**n you Red Wings) banners, retired jerseys (and soon-to-be retired for the likes of Jaromir Jagr, Ron Francis, Paul Coffey, and Tom Barrasso), and signed photos.

5. Free appetizers to everyone when the Penguins score five or more goals!

6. My eatery has to be brick!

Answer 2

1) Cheers / Sante! and it's located inside the Pepsi Coliseum as I will have also bought the rights to give Quebec City a team again.

2) Mario Lemieux, Guy Lafleur, Simon Gagne, Kim St-Pierre

3) BBQ wings, also the best poutine in town.

Attractive waitresses too. You know "Sonia" from "Les Boys"? She will be on my staff for sure ;)

4a) Stanley Cup banners from all teams but focusing on the Canadien and various amateur teams from Quebec.

4b) Pictures and such from the old days and new, from teams throughout Canada, America and Europe.

4c) Multiple games being shown and it will be interactive so each person can watch it in the language of their choice. No linguistic discrimination here. (Having lived both in and outside Quebec gives me a more open mind when it comes to linguistic use / retention than it does most other people!!)

5a) Dollar beer (over 100 beers available in bottle, on draft or in a pitcher), also 10% your bill provided you spend over 20$

5b) If you want coffee we only have Tim Hortons, if you want to drink your Star$ please do so outside. Tuque and mittens optional.

5c) Also for the kids: your choice of Pepsi, Cherry Coke, Dr Pepper, Sprite, regular Coke, diet Coke, and Fanta either Orange, Strawberry or Grapefruit.

6a) Everyone on payroll has to speak at least 2 languages (French and English at a bare minimum) Quebec City attracts visitors from all over the world.

6b) Sponsor the Quebec International Peewee Tournament as well as the many rinks near Plains of Abraham and the government buildings.

6c) If you spend over 100$ before tax and tip, get a free autograph from any 1 NHL player who's in the restaurant at the time of your request.

Thanks for the approval Iceman - just gave this a star.

Answer 3

1. Dip-schtick...like stick...in Buffalo, and all we serve is shishkabobs and various dips

2. My hubby...who cares if we get caught boinking on the 5 gallon industrial tub of mayo?

3. Taco dip, and chicken wing dip

4. Like a slumber party, everyone gets some pillows and a bunch of blanketsa and some beat to h**l couches and a bunc h of giant TVs. And a hottub that I borrowed from Joe.

5. During Sabres games, 2 for 1 sangrias. During any regular season game, $2 domestic bottles, $2.50 imported, preseason games have mug night, you bring in  the biggets mug you can find (think Big Tims) and I fill it with Molsen Canadien for $4. Better do your research cause you only get one. You get your hand stamped after you get the mug filled, then after that its $4.75 bottles, domestic or imported. I need to make money somehow lol

6. I'll steal the name and brew my own "Don Cherry Wheat Ale", but ti wont suck...it will, however, have a horribly tacky label.

Answer 4

1. (Le) Slap Shot, in Montreal, QC, Canada. Or another hockey city.

2. Stevie Y.

3. Calamari shaped winged wheel.

4. like hockeytown cafe.

5. Wings win the Stanley Cup, next order is free.

6. It's tricker than I thought this question.

Answer 5

1. The Naughty Canucker  Brewpub and Eatery/ Somewhere in Saskatchewan.

2. Alexi Ponikarovsky

3. Buffalo style pizza

4. Contrasting blue on red to incorporate my two favourite teams (Caps and Leafs. Also the red could double as Flames theme, My favourite western conference team) Also I would have those new Microsoft Surface computers  as tables and integrated into the massively long bar.

5. $2- 22oz draughts and 1/2 off pizza

6. I have wanted to open a place like this for a LONG time. You got my gears turning again.

Answer 6

1) The Wild Lounge MOA Bloomington MN and Xcel Energy Center St. Paul MN.

2) Mario Lemeiux Nice Guy and Legendary Player

3) The German Dish Cooked Bratwurst Over Sauerkraut and German Potato Salad.

4) Like a Flowerlike Design

5) Yeah how about some Mini Burger sliders, with Chiptole Mustard

6 Yes how about Belgian Chocolate Sundae with a piece of real Belgian Chocolate.

I hope you like it.

Answer 7

1. The Sin Bin @ the corner of Katella and Main.

2. Giguere

3. Finnish Flash Wings & Puckbunny Pie. Chocolate  chip cream pie w/lots of cream and a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.

4. The floor (tile) would look like a hockey rinck complete w/ the red ine, blue lines and goalie crease. The walls would have various pics of hockey related articles from all the teams. Replica sweaters from each team would be framed and list the yrs they won the SC. A  large poster of the SC would be behind the bar. Coasters would look like pucks. The coat room would resemble a locker-room.  Bar stools and tables would  all be oak. Waiters dressed like refs..women as Power Player girls. I'd have a red light and horn go off w/e the Ducks win.

5. Bring your ticket from game day and get 20% off any meal and one free beer w/any meal. Students, teachers and military all get 10% off everyday.

6.I'd have a jukebox that played al lthe goal songs from the teams.Also, I have a large patio for those who want to go outside for a cigar or w/e. A  couple of pool tables and dart board are in the rec room. oh duh of course I have 3 big screen tvs.

Answer 8

1) The puck stops here/ Detriot

2) One of the veterans (the whole older is wiser thing) i can't pick just one...

3) Octipus :)

4) the resteraunt or the dish? im gonna geuss resteraunt so..A large bar serving the best canadian beers with 11 flat screens (1 for each year they won the cup). and in the reteraunt side. large tables seating 4-6 people. a few smaller tables seating 2-3 and 4 HUGE tables seating 8-10. Vingtige jerseys for the Wings hanging all around and memorable moments in pictures. a wall of champions where pictures of them hold in the cup every year they've won it.

5) At every game, a free beer when you buy 3 (i hope that won't be a problem for some of you) and $5 all you can eat hot wings.

6) all of the staff is required to be a red wings fan .Their uniform is black pants and a red wings jersey with their name on the back.

:) and i don't even like the wings,,, it was just a good idea...

:)

Answer 9

1) Slap Shot Sports Bar in Gross Pointe (a rich suburb of Detroit)

2) Chris Chelios.  He seems to have a good head on his shoulders.

3) A Hockey puck shaped sirloin steak with a pile of Mashed potatoes.

4) It would have a rustic look with lots of hockey stuff along the walls and TV's for hockey games.

5) Half-off beer prices during Wings games.

6) Not really.

Snoop: That steak would be awesome.

Answer 10

Slapshot Goons, Pittsburgh PA

Marc-Andre Fleury or Mario Lemieux

66 buries It

It would be an Oreo (puck) sitting inside a net made of cake!

Guess the correct final score of the game get half off your meal

There'd be an ice rink inside the place with games going on, and a wall that was used as a projector to play 3 hockey games all at once, and the waiters would know how to speak multiple languages so you can have non-fluent English speakers order too!

Answer 11

1) The Third Man In,  South Boston, MASS

2) The Great One- # 24 Terry O'Reilly!!!

3) Knuckle Sandwich I dunno what it is but it sounds good right?

4) Black and Gold and Black and Blue!!!

5) If you drink 4 beers in the first period and 4 beers in the second period yr beers are free in the third.

6) Lots of solid hard knuckled Rock and Roll.

or the same exact  thing cept in Buffalo with Rob Ray cause bars are open til four there... and that's fun!  more money!

Answer 12

1. The Wolverine. It would be smack right in the middle of downtown Ann Arbor!

2. My favorite NHLer, Valtteri Filppula and if possible Billy Sauer. And also any other UM hockey player that would want to help(:

3. Hm... something pasta. I'll talk it out with my cooks.

4. All University of Michigan stuff, from every sport. Photos, banners, signs. The seats will be maize and blue. Whatever michigan stuff thats out there, it will be in my bar! Also tons of plasma screen tee vee's, some big and some small(:

5. Every fall Saturday, you get 20% your meal. Against Ohio State, 40% off. I'm pretty generous(: Also students get 10% off no matter what.

6. It is no smoking. Smoking is blah. And there will be seating on the roof and outside. We might also have fun giveaways for tickets and shirts and stuff. My place is boss:D

Wow. sorry, I didn't make it NHL theme. Talk about not reading directions. Haha. Oh well, this one is different(:

Answer 13

1. Shots. Boston, Massachusetts. Forget the name of the street, it's on the way to the Garden from one of the parking garages.

2. Ray Bourque. He already owns a resturaunt in Boston, so he'd be a lot of help.

3. Buffalo Wings.

4. Bruins jerseys mostly with BU jerseys as a second. Some Signed stickes haging up, definately have my Bobby Orr "The Goal" picture in there. Some Red Sox/Patriots/Celtics/BC stuff too of course. A little TV in every booth. Flat screens on every side of the bar and in every corner. Some sort of memorabilia for every title won in Boston.

5. Buy one pizza, get on half off. Buy 2 beers get one free (got to get everybody good and drunk by the end of the night lol.)

6. Every playoff game for any Boston sport (besides soccer and tennis and all that c**p) there's half off every meal you spend over $20 for. And if they win the game, I buy a round for everyone.

Answer 14

1)  Shots and Saves Bar and Grille on Hall Road East of Gratiot (shots referring to alcohol, saves referring to great prices)

2)  Chris Osgood and Brian Rafalski

3)  The Pad Stacker - Hefty slices Roast beef, grilled chicken and honeybaked (junior team tribute) ham on Italian sub bread with cheese, vegetables, and condiments of your choice, as well as any two sides.

The Red Hot Winged Wheel - 20 of our signature red hot buffalo wings circling 4 of our specialty sauces of your choice.  Comes with any two sides.

4)  24, 50 inch plasma tvs surround the bar area with 10 additional 40 inch plasmas and 3 70 inch hi def projectors in the dining area.  The walls, a commemorative timeline of Hockeytown's proud history.  It begins to the immediate left of the front entrance (which would be called the Gordie Howe Entrance, and the side entrance the Steve Yzerman Entrance, with obvious reference to the Joe Lou) with a brief history of the original Winged Wheelers (Montreal), and continues to represent the history with game apparel, autographed jerseys, and other collector's merchandise arranged chronologically representing all of the Red Wing greats and historical moments.  The timeline circles the bar and ends with the 2008 Stanley Cup victory 30 ft. to the right of the front entrance to allow for the next 5 to 10 years of Hockeytown's best memories.  Once the wall is filled, renovation will begin.  Hopefully the bar does well and in 2050, with the anticipated expansion of the bar extending out into the 2 acre lot, the bar proves to be the best sports bar in the world.  (Hockeytown Cafe, 2nd in the nation according to ESPN, will be hard to beat).

5)  In game specials - half off all Red Wings sponsor products (miller light, bud light, molson canadian..etc.), and free jager bombs for every Red Wing goal.

6)  The bar would be frequented by many Red Wings, as well as Southeastern Michigan natives such as Mike Modano, the Hatcher bros, Doug Weight, Brian Rolston, David Legwand, as well as Southwestern Ontario natives like Dino Cicarelli...etc.

EDIT - haha Trombass, my metro Detroit bar made a pun out of the word "shots" first (I thought about something using slapshots, but nothing came to me).

Answer 15

1) The Penalty Box, Detroit MI

2) Chris Osgood or Bob Probert

3) Top Shelf Steak

4) I'll put a bunch of Autographs, Sticks, Jerseys, and a Souvenir Shop and a Bar

5) Every time the Wings score a Power Play goal or a Short Handed goal, free drinks on the house for everyone

6) I already have the blueprint drawn, Its going to be 2 stories, with a full hockey rink outside, and an outside bar, and it will have a game room for the kids

Answer 16

1) Puck It - I'd set up shop in the new Pens arena being built, right at center ice halfway thru the stands so you get an awesome view.

2) Fleury and Talbot.

3) I'd have a signature drink instead of a dish, I'd call it "Puckbunnies on Ice" AKA a Red Headed s**t.

4) Any Pens memorabilia I could get my hands on.  I'd order a genuine Cup replica to be made, and would also have a Cup ice sculpture made daily which would have drinks flowing out of it.

5) 25 cent bottles all day on game days.  All bottles, including imports, not just the domestic sh*t.  Hey, I did win the lottery here, I can afford it.

6) I'd have a different player come in on an off day once a month to sign autographs, take pics, etc.

Answer 17

1: The Sin Bin

2:Someone who would bring in customers but otherwise not get in the way.

3: A drink called the Slap shot, (doing research on the ingredients)

4: iceblock painted walls, and old hockey stuff from around the league

5:Free Slapshots for hometeam overtime winners,

6:Sponsor a local deck/roller team and tournement.

Answer 18

call it the sinbin and have it located in downtown dc.have scott stevens or oveckin coown it.for a signature dish have the penalty shot  a blackened cheeseburger with bluecheese crumbles.it would be decorated with any hockey memorabillia that i could get.in game specials all appatizers half priceand all draft beers .25 cents.and if there are any injured capitals or capitals oppents for that night i would ask if they would come in and talk to customers and sign autographs for them

Answer 19

1. The Goalie Net (my slogan would be: "they save pucks, you save money" lol) in Baltimore...or Detroit but I don't live there...maybe I could get my cousins to run it if it was in Detroit and I could work there everytime we visit

2. Chris Osgood and Nick Lidstrom...and Chris Chelios if he wants to help since he seems to have restaurant owning skills haha (he owns one in MI)

3. The slap shot sandwich...I will leave your imagination to fill this sandwich with whatever you think it would have or sounds good

4. The color scheme would be red and white for the Wings and there would be a Stanley Cup fountain outside the restaurant. If there were railings anywhere they'd look like long hockey sticks. Signed jerseys (I'd hope to have one of Yzerman's) and posters would line the walls. Old hockey and Red Wing memorabila would also be on little shelves around the restaurant and bar. The tables would look like giant pucks and the bar stools would be smaller "pucks"....oh man, this would be awesome!

5. You'd get a complementary beer everytime the Red Wings play a home game no matter what hockey team you root for. You'd also get a free pack of hockey cards on any Friday. And you could always get free refills on iced tea, coffee, sodas, and juice...anything but the beer

6. ....I already added a slogan for my restaurant but I'll add that if the Wings play during the finals, there would be specials on the octopus and squid (calamari basically) until someone wins the cup!

there would be a game room for kids and in there would be air hockey and that other type of hockey game...you know, the one were you move the sticks (kind of like fusball) and score in the net

there would be a really big screen TV on one wall with comfortable chairs and a coffee table so we could all watch the game...there would still be the standard mini screens by the bar.