Meet the players

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Originally Posted by ManchesterFig

I understand that the banners on the left side are the retired numbers...but what about the three on the right?

Are the old Division and Conference title banners still on the wall? If so, why three? I have read on here that there will be a Cup Champ and Conference Champ banner, but what is the third banner for?

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Probably their conference championship banner from the first time they went to the finals in 92-93.

I got to Staples at 4pm. I was 17th in line to get in. Ran to the Quick line, was in the first row to get through, got all 4 signatures, got in the Brown line and ended up not getting through. The wife did Brown first and then got through the penner line as well.

I understand why, so I'm not mad. There were a ton of people there. I got there really early because I did so last year and got a hat signed by the whole team. The luck I had last year makes up for the frustration of this year.

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Originally Posted by Rawley19

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Originally Posted by AngryKing

What is it? What's the actual problem? Is it the lack of experienced staff that can't handle large scale event planning? Or is it simply the nature of the beast? Meaning, there's just so many people and so few players, that MTP is naturally a slow, long process?

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Combination of the two. In all seriousness they need to send some of their people to Disneyland to learn crowd control, they deal with way more people and have less complaints. There were food lines mixed with player lines and not enough people to help move things along. The nature of the beast is the other part, except this year there were way more people and still the same amount of players.

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Meet the Players needs fast passes!

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Originally Posted by ucsdguy1

Meet the Players needs fast passes!

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senior priority for those of us over 30.

Thanks so much to McNasty38 for the tickets! I only made it through Kopitar/Williams/Nolan/King, but I still had a great time. The line for the locker room tours was nuts too!

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My kid got to meet his hero:

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Originally Posted by Rebel

Thanks so much to McNasty38 for the tickets! I only made it through Kopitar/Williams/Nolan/King, but I still had a great time. The line for the locker room tours was nuts too!

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We only got through that group as well. After we grabbed our free hot dogs and drinks, the line for the locker room tour was practically out the door!

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Originally Posted by AngryKing

Here come the complaints about how poorly the banners are rolled up. Geezus...

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No no I wasn't complaining about that, just thought it was funny for how tight lipped they've been about where they're going to hang them and how they're going to do it you could clearly see they were the Kings banners

Couldn't agree more. They were still letting people down to the seats right where the lines were supposed to get to the players. Very unorganized. We waited an hour and 45 to get Brown, Scuds, and Frazier. We to the team store and bought the book, then they wouldn't let us out the STAR Plaza door!. Had to walk to the original entrance then walk back by the Plaza entrance again. WTF?

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Originally Posted by TooCool

Quite possibly the absolute worst MTP ever.

I got to the Brown, Scuderi, Fraser line at 6:30 PM when players arrived. I got my autograph at 9:20 PM. The lines did not move, period. By the time the players were signing my things and taking a picture, they were annoyed and bored and couldn't wait to leave.

What a bummer. Wow. That is all I care to share right now.

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It was funny, before the event I was telling myself pick two players you want to see (not the big guys) knowing I wouldn't see everyone. I picked Mitchell and Williams and then saw Williams in the Kopitar group and Mitchell in the Richards group and decided to just go for the shortest groups. I got through two player groups, the locker room, and the announcer line. Granted I only took a pic with Penner so that probably helped in the player lines.

I think it was about managing expectations. I was happy about just getting any players.