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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
There are even more retired people in Florida. Remember when putting an NHL team there was a no-brainer because of all the snow-birds? How is that working out?
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Arizona too.
There's also the famous quote from the original owner of the Kings who said that he bought a hockey team because he was told that there are 3 million Canadians living in the Los Angeles area, but what they didn't tell him was that those people all moved to LA because they hate hockey.
It's not just hockey either. I remember a similar quote from someone with the Tampa Bay Rays. They looked at all the former New Yorkers and Boston residents and thought baseball in Tampa would be an easy sell, but they soon found out that people who have been cheering for the Yankees and Red Sox for 50+ years, don't become Devil Rays fans overnight.