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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Neither Winnipeg paper has anything interesting, but for people living the delusion:
Bettman claims MTS has enough seats (from April 09)
Not only are all 30 teams staying, but expansion! (Dec 4) - Bettman mentions Winnipeg wants a team. Well duh.
Course, the problem remains that Winnipeg's ability to be a viable long term market has a lot of deep rooted questions that supporters cheerfully ignore any time they are pressed. |
Keep in mind, when the Jets relocated to Phoenix, I think every canadian NHL team was losing money (with the exception of Toronto and Montreal).
Edmonton was barely averaging 12,000 fans/game, and it's a miracle they didn't move to Houston in 1997. Calgary and Ottawa in the red, and averaging 4,000 empty seats each game. Even Vancouver was losing money.
I just find it amazing that people are so quick to criticize the NHL return to Winnipeg, when we were all in the same boat in the mid 1990's.