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Originally Posted by craigwd
The city needs a covered stadium, or at least partially covered. Without it, Calgary can say goodbye to hosting any more Grey Cups. The league doesn't want to see the title game with empty stands - which almost happened in Regina in 2013 and may happen this year in Winnipeg.
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Where would they host it then? Hamilton, Ottawa and now Regina have built/are building brand new stadiums and they're all open air. Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal are the only 3 where you can avoid it.
And no arguments about the 93 WF, -40 is just straight bonkers. Thankfully that seems to be a very rare occasion, I can't think of a game close to that cold in over 20 years since.
This could all be solved if they just started the season a month earlier, no need to wait until basically July in Canada. Though I wonder if one of the reasons is the league and TSN don't want to go against the NHL playoffs, let alone the Cup Final...which raises the question of why the heck is ice hockey still being played in mid-June? Cut 8-12 games off the NHL season while we're at it (I know...it'll never happen. Just sayin)
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