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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Without the extra tenant, yeah, they can only support one arena. Los Angeles has three pro sports teams PLUS all the concerts/events that run out of the Staples Center. U2 isn't gonna play the Jobing.com arena and then the next night do a show in downtown Phoenix. So without the Coyotes, and assuming the Suns have no interest in the facility, yes, a town can generally only support one 20,000 seat facility.
Toronto has one. Montreal has one. Chicago has one. New York is difficult to count since the arenas are in vastly different places, and the only other place I can think of that has two facilities so close to each other is Detroit, but I'm not sure how far away the Palace is from Joe Louis.
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The problem with your logic is that there should be 10 times the bands, shows, conventions, with double or triple the shows per band that will play a city with 4.2M people rather than a city with 730,000 people.
Are the managers of the MTS centre just so much smarter than the managers of the PHx arenas? The people of Winnipeg have so much more entertainment $? The bands and shows just like Winnipeg as a venue so much more than Phx.
The absolute only reason that Phx would even be considered to have an NHL team in the first place is that there is more than 4 times the population of cities like Calgary, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Ottawa and Quebec.
Now you are telling me that this megalopolis that has a larger population than all of Alberta doesn't support basically anything!!!!
Wish the NHL would have gotten you to do the marketing study before they gave Phx a franchise.