Can You Hear Us?...

The whole aspect of playing at MSG makes up for the lack of coordinated color, IMO. You’re in MSG, with the fans and the lights beating down on you, and it can get loud at times. Granted…the only other arenas I’ve Bern to are The Pebble and the swamp…. and those places are tombs

I’d rather see a bunch of diffrent jerseys from graves to greschner to gabby than everyone wearing the same ovenchkin jersey anyday. It’s been true for years that the “true” fans have been getting priced out of most games but I find once playoff times come we step it up and the true fans find a way into the building. Alot of the teams you mentioned their fans are nowhere to be found if the teams are losing. Oh and the Pru is half empty evan if their team is winning except when they play us or the flyers.

Down low, yes, real fans are getting priced out. There are people with suits on who clearly just got free company seats getting up to get beers and food during game play as if there is no game going on. They are, for the most part, completely oblivious and have no edicate for waiting for a whistle. Its one thing to not know the game and attend because you got invited, but have some awareness to whats going on around you. Like I don’t know anything about basketball but I know to not act obnoxious as if there aren’t true fans behind my trying to watch. Wait for the whistles, time outs and commercial breaks to get up.

With that being said, yeah some places can get “louder” but many other arenas blare obnoxious music and have much louder sound systems. So “louder” does not mean they are better fans or more dedicated. IMO (and I have been to 15 games this season at MSG) the MSG crowd is the most “responsive,” not necessarily the “loudest.” The people who scream “shooooooooot” every time a ranger has the puck over the red line need to shut the f*ck up but that’s another story for another day.

I strongly disagree about the Pru center being louder. That is simply not the case, I have been to Rangers Devils games at both arenas (this season and seasons past) and the Pru center was not even close to MSG. And when the Devils are playing anyone but the Rangers you can hear a pin drop, half the people don’t even stand for a goal.

I also think the sound of the crowd at MSG for some reason does not translate well on TV as well as other newer arenas. I was at the one of the Rangers home games during the Caps series and it was LOUD; the loudest I have ever heard it in my 100 plus games attended. Then I watched the next one on TV and I noticed how different the sounds were through the TV. Maybe its the "bowl’ shape of the arena as opposed to many of the new buildings with a more erect stadium style – “right on top of the ice”- kind of seating structures. It allows the upper decks to be higher than MSG but much closer in horizontal distance to the ice because you are right on top of it. The loudest fans are in the 400s and 300s at MSG but they are so much farther away from the ice, where all the game microphones are, because of MSG bowl shape.

And the TD garden argument… Yeah they might be louder right now, however the Bruins could not sell a ticket like 6 years ago. Now that they are good again the fans are back. At least during the shitty last decade for the Rangers, MSG has had fans in the building. Same goes for the Caps.

I think the atmosphere at MSG this season, from my pretty large sample sizes of games attended, has been as good as it has been in at least the last 5 years.

I cant tell you how often I look around and people are texting or surfing on their mobile devices rather than watching the game. And its not just wives/gfs/teenagers (sorry if I offend).

I cant see paying $100 (which is what I pay) to see a live event, only to be mesmerized by my iPhone. if it were my kid, i would confiscate it. live in the moment, not the internet.

I have been to 3 or 4 games this year and watch prob every other game on TV. I agree, MSG is not LOUD every game. When Toronto or Columbus or Nashville come to town, the crowd is subdued for sure.

But i was @ the Philly game around Thanksgiving…the place was bumping…it was almost as loud as the Washington playoff Can You Hear us game (i was in attendance, which turned out very unfortunate). There is also an intenseness to the game that I dont think every arena has. A majority of fans are watching, analyzing and following the game. That is why you hear roars when they are flying around, hitting everything that moves, and they are cycling and forechecking like mad men. Ranger fans know the game, and I think that is sometimes why they are not consitently loud. But overall, I have heard it this year @ MSG and on the TV, the place is loud.

Recent example again would be the third peiod of the TB game the other night. Rangers were flying, hustling and the crowd reacted.

That is my two cents

In soccer there are “supporter organizations” for both club and country. It’s even caught on in the US. If you’ve ever watched any games the fans are constantly chanting and cheering. It’s a lot more creative than the ever-present “Let’s go team x” stuff, too.

It’s pretty much all parodies of songs. For international teams (i.e. USA soccer) the songs are often adapted from patriotic or american-themed songs, like Yankee Doodle for example.

Basically, fans gotta get organized and to a degree, centralized. Think Fireman Ed and the NY Jets. Rangers do “okay” for having a couple options, whether it’s “Duuuuuuuuuuu(bi)” or “Stuuuuuuuu” or “Hen-rik/ry” in addition to the LGR.

But to really take it up a notch we need a place to direct people to learn the chants and some people at games to lead and initiate them. We already have enough difficulty getting a solid LGR chant going in unison.

probably play the biggest role in what you’ve seen.

i know every time i see homo larry get up and dance like an idiot, i die a little inside. makes me wana do anything i can to not look like him, which includes gettng a litte rowdy

You have to understand that a lot of us fans have been going to games for many, many years. We have seen it all. the season ticket holders do not turn over that much so you have basically the same fans coming year after year. when I go, I watch the game and the players to see what they are doing. I chant and clap but i’m not going to be raucous and obnoxious. I’ll leave that to the flyer fans. doesn’t mean we’re not the best fans in the world. our loyalty and love for the team make us the best.