I like Seattle, Quebec City, Portland or even Houston as new hockey Markets, Hell, even Kansas City with their state of the art facility. But Vegas? VEGAS? What makes the NHL think they can sustain a viable hockey market there when no other professional sports league has or possibly ever will? The Snowbirds who go there every winter? Are there that many hockey fans who would be willing to pony up what will logically be high ticket prices to attend an NHL game while they're on their Vegas trip? Doesn't that hurt the Hookers and Pen & Teller?
Vegas is a terrible idea.
Sorry, it's a personal view. I just don't think it's a smart idea to enter in Vegas without some sort of proven success of a sporting franchise outside of Boxing and MMA.
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