One more thing.... talking with CEO's... there's one thing they have in common, almost all businesses require the same skills at their level... and often these CEO just need to understand basic fundamentals and would be successful in any number of them running in different areas. Now... I think that running a hockey team as a GM is different because it's a game... but at the higher management level... it's about making money. We may criticize Katz about his hockey sense here... but so far he's been filling seats and has a new arena and ice district in Edmonton, funded in part by us taxpayers - I think the Calgary Flames would consider themselves lucky to get the same deal... and we won't, we have different fundamentals here, and we stand by them (big difference up north).
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