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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 don't know why sports fans always insist taking money away from hospitals, education, & infrastructure to bail out private businesses that do not provide the slightest essential service to the public.
There are many money markets out there, if the economics were profitable, they could easily raise money for arenas through bonds. Moreover - the NHL signed a multi-billion dollar broadcast deal with NBC - this is more than enough money to replace the so called "outdated" NHL arenas.
Sure you might want a shiny new NHL arena, but you don't have to go through government to get the money. Governments have to start calling sports teams' bluff.