The word 'need' has been thrown around a ton in this thread, and in nearly every case it should have been 'want'. No one is disputing that there aren't a ton of reasons why a new arena would be good...of course almost all of those reasons are only important for hockey fans.
It's still mind bottling what we're seeing after so many years of "you'll love what you see". That is undermining my confidence more than anything, and makes me skeptical that they can execute any plan, and that they wouldn't be competent enough to incorporate a project like this into any bigger possibilities, such as an Olympic bid. This all seems to be an attempt to scam their way into a free new stadium...the Olympics would have been a much better catalyst for that than this boondoggle.
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