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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
The general sentiment I'm seeing is opposing fans in the Phoenix area or fans who travel down there a lot are happy they get to keep seeing cheap hockey in Phoenix. This franchise is one 2-3 year stretch of bad play away from averaging 4,000 fans a game. Why the NHL has such a hard on to keep a team in a market destined to fail when there are markets destined to succeed out there speaks to the value of having top TV markets when making TV deals.
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Quebec? A team would obviously succeed in Quebec, but that doesn't mean that moving a team there now would be an economic win for the NHL. I imagine there is a pretty large appetite in the NHL board room to enter any hockey mad market in the most lucrative way possible, which is almost certainly through expansion. Outside of Quebec and Toronto there isn't another market that could legitimately be labelled as "destined to succeed", there are a few unproven markets with serious question marks.
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Last edited by valo403; 07-03-2013 at 09:27 AM.
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