Thread: Team LA at TSC closing...(Closed on July 31st.){Merged}

All we need is a Super Store in the South Bay, if you are familiar w/ The Ocean Gate Shopping Area in Hawthorne there is an abandoned Circuit City across from the Best Buy just waiting to take this on.

Word is the store will be open for two months and everything is on sale. There are some stick deals. No returns. Right now there is no vendor lined up to do the sharpening and sell tape.

How good is the sale ?

Originally Posted by SirJW

Word is the store will be open for two months and everything is on sale. There are some stick deals. No returns. Right now there is no vendor lined up to do the sharpening and sell tape.

If they can turn the skate rental area (east end in between NHL & OLY rinks) into a constantly-staffed outlet that can at least do ....

1) skate-sharpening
2) tape-&-lace-selling

.... and preferably also do ....

3) minor equipment repair
4) stick selling

.... then this can be work-able.

I know it sounds like a catastrophe, but it's an old-school mindset to think that every rink needs a fully-stocked pro shop. Real equipment purchases are (a) once in a blue moon, and (b) better handled (variety & price) by the megastores in OC and the Valley.

Still, for familiarity & convenience, I will miss it.

Can someone tell me again why Luc Robitaille & his 'people' need to park their asses @ TSC? (&*%$ing Tim Leiweke and his teflon puppet!)

Originally Posted by beingbobbyorr

I know it sounds like a catastrophe, but it's an old-school mindset to think that every rink needs a fully-stocked pro shop. Real equipment purchases are (a) once in a blue moon, and (b) better handled (variety & price) by the megastores in OC and the Valley.

Where's the megastore in the Valley?

discount hockey

Originally Posted by beingbobbyorr

If they can turn the skate rental area (east end in between NHL & OLY rinks) into a constantly-staffed outlet that can at least do ....

1) skate-sharpening
2) tape-&-lace-selling

.... and preferably also do ....

3) minor equipment repair
4) stick selling

.... then this can be work-able.

I know it sounds like a catastrophe, but it's an old-school mindset to think that every rink needs a fully-stocked pro shop. Real equipment purchases are (a) once in a blue moon, and (b) better handled (variety & price) by the megastores in OC and the Valley.

Still, for familiarity & convenience, I will miss it.

Can someone tell me again why Luc Robitaille & his 'people' need to park their asses @ TSC? (&*%$ing Tim Leiweke and his teflon puppet!)

I don't think this has anything to do with their offices there. the management company is jacking up the rental costs internally. not enough volume in that store to keep up.

Originally Posted by nosoupforyou

I don't think this has anything to do with their offices there. the management company is jacking up the rental costs internally. not enough volume in that store to keep up.

I figure it's all owned by AEG, not matter what shell game they play with names. Not surprising that the pro shop doesn't have the volume of traffic to pay for storing all the equipment collecting dust.

So they either need more office space, or the pro shop wasn't doing it's job as a 'loss leader' (to pull in bodies that would buy something else in the building) and they're better off financially if it becomes general-purpose floorspace (I'll **** if they turn it into a dance studio for the little girl figure skaters).

Originally Posted by beingbobbyorr

I figure it's all owned by AEG, not matter what shell game they play with names. Not surprising that the pro shop doesn't have the volume of traffic to pay for storing all the equipment collecting dust.

So they either need more office space, or the pro shop wasn't doing it's job as a 'loss leader' (to pull in bodies that would buy something else in the building) and they're better off financially if it becomes general-purpose floorspace (I'll **** if they turn it into a dance studio for the little girl figure skaters).

I don't think AEG owns them.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.ngin....SEC_2___2_.pdf

from what I understand it will not be office space. though I can't imagine that the pro shop would be a good "loss leader" for them at all.

also, looks like they are finally going to convert the roller rink into another ice rink for the kids.