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Old 07-12-2013, 12:49 PM   #268
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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh View Post
+ prestige of owning a hockey club.

A friend of mine is a Calgary expat working for TatNeft, an oil&gas company which owns Ak Bars Kazan hockey club. He says this is almost a religion over there. Hockey players are treated like semi-gods. Whatever money the team needs, they always get. Attendance at games doesn't mean much.
Semi-gods who are removed from the ice by a clown shoes operation involving tarps when injured. I'd take being a mere mortal in the NHL.
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