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Originally Posted by pylon
Personally I don't care if the team ends up in Canada or not. I care that it ends up in a market that will support the team, and not hold a city and its taxpayers hostage. It is 100% wrong that the residents of Glendale who don't care one iota about the NHL are being forced to pay to support it. The league should be ashamed they have held a gun to the head of that city for the last 4 years.
As for the bolded part. Get over yourself.
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I don't disagree with the bolded portion, but I definitely disagree with the following sentence. The NHL isn't in the business of municipal politics and they didn't force the city of Glendale to get into the business of professional sports. Previous iterations of local government made bonehead decision after bonehead decision, they built that arena and it's on them to deal with it. If they don't think that having an NHL tenant is in their best interests they are one of the very few municipalities in a position to simply walk away from professional sports, most places are bound by lengthy leases. The fact that that hasn't happened demonstrates that there is at least some value in keeping the team there, we're at the stage of finally determining if that value exceeds the costs.
As for your final line, I assume you fully respect the opinions of random people off the street who come in and tell you about cars and the auto sales industry despite clearly having no idea about a single aspect of it, right?