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Jets4Life · 02-02-2012, 09:54 PM

Fort McMurray should draw WHL or AHL Team

http://www.mymcmurray.com/fort-mcmur...-team-germain/

“We’ve got to start thinking big, thinking bold, and moving ahead,” he said. “I think it’s very realistic that we become a WHL city or become an AHL city, something along those lines, when we’re 250,000 [in population].”

Germain says he’s focusing on the current expansion plans at Macdonald Island, but he hopes a new five thousand to eight thousand seat arena will eventually be built downtown as well.

“When we build it, I want it to be clear that the interface between that baseball [stadium], the lower townsite redevelopment, and the new hockey arena, has to be well thought-out to get the same kind of synergetic relationship that they have in Columbus and in Kansas City,” he insisted.

02-02-2012, 09:54 PM	#11
Jets4Life Lifetime Suspension Join Date: May 2004 Exp:	Fort McMurray should draw WHL or AHL Team http://www.mymcmurray.com/fort-mcmur...-team-germain/ “We’ve got to start thinking big, thinking bold, and moving ahead,” he said. “I think it’s very realistic that we become a WHL city or become an AHL city, something along those lines, when we’re 250,000 [in population].” Germain says he’s focusing on the current expansion plans at Macdonald Island, but he hopes a new five thousand to eight thousand seat arena will eventually be built downtown as well. “When we build it, I want it to be clear that the interface between that baseball [stadium], the lower townsite redevelopment, and the new hockey arena, has to be well thought-out to get the same kind of synergetic relationship that they have in Columbus and in Kansas City,” he insisted.