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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I've stayed pretty quiet on the 'emotion' side of the whole Jets/Coyotes situation, trying to speak strictly to the facts as they are presented, but seriously? Oh boo-hoo, whatever.
Get an AHL team as a tenant, Winnipeg did. If Glendale et al. is a good 'hockey market' and proper management will allow a team to prosper as you've parroted over and over and over, then you'll have no problem embracing the Glendale Moose or whatever the hell they call them; Winnipeg did.
I hope very soon that you'll know what former Jets fans like myself went through when we lost our team to Arizona. Only difference is you won't know what it's like to see your former team play in a new locale that clearly doesn't "get" hockey and as a result doesn't care about hockey, because that was the biggest hoof to the groin of any Jets fan. No one there gave a crap about "The Coolest Game in the Desert", yet there were people in Winnipeg still listening to Curt Kielbach provide the play-by-play for Coyotes games on crappy AM radio (KY58, the oldies station), right up until the station went bust.
I've stayed cautiously optimistic, if not sometimes even realistic/pessimistic about the NHL returning to Winnipeg for a long time. This is the first time I can say with some confidence that there's a great chance that Winnipeg will finally get another team.
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Now that I've got that out of the way, let's speak to the facts once more: the bonds won't get sold at a higher rate because the city can't afford to back them at a higher rate and investors know this, as well the threat of action from Goldwater has made them even less attractive. There are plenty of municipal bonds that one could invest in, why on Earth would one pick the ones being offered up by Glendale?
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Oh KY58. Had a friend who's dad's Ford Thunderbird's radio could only get that one station.
I still remember that one bit about reporters asking people in Phoenix what they knew about hockey before they got their team. They asked one person what they thought icing was. The answer was "is that when players throw ice at eachother".