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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
I agree with you that it would have to be proven it works, and some form of demand needs to be there, but again, casino's spend billions of dollars on creating state of the art pool complexes, spas, bringing in huge concert acts, building and housing permenant shows like Garth Brooks, Shania, Elton John, Britney Spears, etc....., investing in state of the art hotel rooms............and they don't want their customers to spend a single second in anyone of those investments. The whole point of these very costly expensive things is to attract and keep as many people on the premisis as possible so they spend more money on the floor. And it's a business model that works.
Agreed that incorporating hockey into that is definitely a question mark, but to be honest the business economics at least on the cost side of things certainly don't make you blink your eye when you compare it to some of the other things they do (on-going concerts and such). It will be a wait and see on whether hockey can create the interest and desired reaction from their patrons to make it worth while, but at least you can see the business model / environment that could make it work because they do this type of crap all the time.
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I don't, because I'm not sure if I can see a successful business model where they are banking on the success of this thing being on "comps" .... I'm not sure the NHL is "unique" enough the way their vegas shows are, and the cost of this venture is substantially higher than other trail run shows ... we will see though, maybe this STH drive will prove or disprove that thought.