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Originally Posted by dissentowner
It isn't a hockey market, this has been proven time and time again. The glee from fans is that the team might actually move to a hockey market so there is another competitive team where people care instead of a joke of a franchise who consistently takes on bad contracts and doesn't try to compete.
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Doesn't matter what the market it...bad ownership can and will crater it. Look at Ottawa as a good example.
Arizona had I think 8 different ownership groups in like a 20 year period, with some of that being run by the NHL.
Nobody was investing money into the market, they weren't having success on the ice, and there was constantly a dark cloud the team could move at any moment. You're not going to be a strong market with that going on.
I still think if they would have just worked together on the Suns on a new multi-purpose downtown arena, and would have had stable ownership that would actually invest in the team then you would have had success.
As it stands though it makes sense to move them now...but I think in 5-10 years, with a new arena, and with solid ownership it absolutely could work.