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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Other than being a billionaire, mandatory precursors to being an NHL team owner are one's love of the game and one's sincere commitment to treating the team as your community asset. Neither Meruelo nor Gutierrez seem to possess those qualities whatsoever. What's going on there is not at all surprising and, actually, was to be expected.
Honestly, I have zero understanding of Bettman's fixation on developing Arizona hockey market...
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In theory, it should be a good market. It's a large growing city. Many transplants from the north. Their lower levels of hockey are picking up steam in the state. Geographically, it fills a gap as well. It's also relatively wealthy and the demographics look good on paper.
They just made so many poor decisions the whole way.