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| DjCommisad |
The new Winnipeg arena is about 15,015, I believe. Around there.
Winnipeg won't get a team, unfortunately. They don't have enough major corporate headquarters there to buy up the vip boxes. There's a lot of fan support, but not enough of them for the NHL to see Winnipeg as a viable market for an NHL team (although they saw cities like Nashville and Phoenix as great in terms of business and population but did not forsee that those cities would have zilch in terms of fan support).
The sale is not final, but a press conference is scheduled for today in Nashville (thurs). The content of the conference is not detailed, but many assume it is primarily to deal with the potential sale (to be approved by the NHL) of the Predators to Canadian billionaire (as forementioned above).
If the sale is finalized, it is believed that the new owner will then petition the NHL to move the team to a southern ontario location such as Hamilton or Barrie (?).
Nashville is a good team in a poor market, if any team was going to move (and there have been no rumors of any team moving for awhile and no intention by the NHL to expand, ie Seattle, Kansas or Las Vegas, the latter two in my opinion being again horrible markets for a hockey team) it was going to be them. |
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| thecoyote |
Seattle would mean a lot of cool roadtrips!
You don't think Winnipeg could fair better with the salary cap era? |
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| dj_alucard |
seattle woudl be cool
but they have a smaller population than winnerpeg
kansas maybe but i can see abotu as much support from them as nashville
quebec woudl be great..bring back the nordicks
we wont get one here and if we do we would have to sell our souls |
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| RaPiD____EyE_k |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_alucard
seattle woudl be cool
but they have a smaller population than winnerpeg
kansas maybe but i can see abotu as much support from them as nashville
quebec woudl be great..bring back the nordicks
we wont get one here and if we do we would have to sell our souls |
seattle has a smaller population than winnipeg? since when? that whole area is comparable in population to the vancouver area isn't it? |
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| Spin Laden |
| lol, Sea-Tac is bigger than greater Vancouver even. Winnipeg is barely 700,000 and greater Seattle is 4 mil. |
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