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Originally Posted by boggledepot
It's a tragedy when rich business men play on ordinary people's passions, and sucker them in identifying themselves by: "Hockey is Canada's game; it's our national sport", and all the rest of that rhetorical bull. Many cannot fathom it, but professional hockey is a means of subverting, otherwise, intelligent people into building palaces for the super rich, so they can charge exorbitant amounts to the ones who built and paid for the palaces in the first place.
We look back on history and view the winter palace in Russia, and Versailles in France as symbols of government corruption--the royalty basking in the glory of these grandiose symbols of their rule, while ordinary citizens, the ones who paid for these palaces, starved, were left cold, and struggled to survive.
It is a little coincidental that Edmonton and St.Petersburg are the two largest northern cities in the world. In lieu of this geographic connection, I suggest the name of this downtown arena be the 'Winter Palace'.
You know? Edmonton, hockey, beautiful arena, winter, palace... Get it?
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I didn't realize that there were people in Edmonton who were starving to survive under the authoritarian rule of a King or a Czar. Fact is that Edmonton needs a new arena, Rexall Place is just too damn old and I doubt that Katz has the assets to go it alone on a new arena, especially when there are positive effects for the city of Edmonton and the province of Alberta that need to be recognized.
Fact is that if Edmonton doesn't get a new arena I wouldn't be surprised to see them leave in the next 5-10 years, which hurts both Edmonton and Alberta from a financial and from a civic pride standpoint. At the end of the day the province will likely chip something in indirectly from a top up of some fund that will be put towards the arena by the city.