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Originally Posted by MacGruber
I'm sure that if the oilers were lost to Houston in the late 90's (it took Bettman to stop the sale as commish and save the team personally) we here in Calgary would welcome back the Oilers despite it possibly costing the team revenue as being the only game in town in Alberta.
Perhaps we should extend the same courtesy to our neighbors 2 provinces away. All this anti Winnipeg sentiment on this board is pretty exclusive for Canadian team message boards and perplexing, frankly.
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If Winnipeg looked like it was a viable market then many people would welcome it back with open arms but the prospect of adding a small, poor community with a tiny rink with little luxury boxes to a league that already has a lot of struggling franchises isn't really appealing to many fans.
The Canadian angle to it is just BS. Not sure why people care more about a bad market just because it is Canadian.