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Originally Posted by Jets4Life
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Originally Posted by getbak
Everything is relative. Every other city in the NHL is over a million, so Winnipeg is a small city by comparison.
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So is Green Bay (metro population 282,599), but they manage to do pretty well in the NFL.
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Green Bay and Winnipeg are so different it's not even worth comparing. Green Bay Packers is enriched with tradition and history as well as a large national fanbase. Plus the NFL kinda makes over +9 billion in revenue each year, so they have all the money in the world to help out smaller markets if need be.
Maybe if the NHL made that much money, then it wouldn't be that much of an issue business wise to give Winnipeg a club again. But shoot, I doubt the NFL would even bother giving a team to Green Bay in this day and age if they didn't have one already. Packers are a fairly unique franchise in the North American landscape.