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Originally Posted by pylon
Bouw, I truly feel for ya. If my team was getting ripped out from underneath me, regardless of how crappy the support is, I would be pissed too. But it is almost like you are losing your grasp of reality, and are making really desperate statements.
You cannot honestly think, that a 70% empty building is good for the overall game, good for the team, and especially the league. Phoenix is an embarrassing black eye on the league from any angle. Phoenix does not deserve a team... period. Red Deer deserves a team more, ad would support it better.
The 30 million dollar loss is coming straight from the coffers of the teams that can support one, and that is simply unfair to those teams. Just let go man, it's not gonna work, and the team is as good as gone.
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I agree with him. It is embarrassing how some of the board members don't understand the situation in Phoenix. They're a market that seems to have had bad management that built a rink in the middle of no where. Phoenix as a market is more attractive than Winnipeg and always will be. I'd only accept Edmontons team moving to Winnipeg under current league model. There is no upside to Winnipeg unless the league switches to a gate driven model going forward which I guess is also up for debate.