05-17-2023, 10:59 AM
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#161
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Salt Lake makes a lot of sense.
One less thing to deal with for the NHL hopefully they wrap this saga up by the draft.
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05-17-2023, 10:59 AM
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#162
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Salt Lake Tabernacle Choirs!
Utah Flying Squirrels!
Salt Lake Gila Monsters!
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05-17-2023, 11:03 AM
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#164
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Originally Posted by CroFlames
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Slight problem with most of that being Arizona.
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05-17-2023, 11:05 AM
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#165
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Quebec City is ####ing gorgeous and the surrounding area is just incredible. It would be a shame for people to overlook it as a place to play. I'm sure it would be 100x better than Edmonton or Winnipeg.
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It would be a top destination for me personally. If I could speak French well enough to actually work there, I'd probably live there. But hockey players don't need to be able to speak French to work there, and at the street level, I never had a problem getting by in English for day-to-day things.
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05-17-2023, 11:09 AM
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It would be a top destination for me personally. If I could speak French well enough to actually work there, I'd probably live there. But hockey players don't need to be able to speak French to work there, and at the street level, I never had a problem getting by in English for day-to-day things.
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It doesn't even look like Canada. It looks like some mid-sized city in France or Switzerland. And the nature surrounding the city is just magnifique. Canadians really should go visit it in their lifetimes.
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05-17-2023, 11:15 AM
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#167
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Franchise Player
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The Salt Lake City Poison, in honor of the drying of the great salt lake and potential outcome from arsenic in the dry bed. They can follow Seattle’s lead and rename the arena to something relevant. They can play out of “The Environmental Disaster Arena”.
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05-17-2023, 11:18 AM
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#168
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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The Utah Osmonds!
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05-17-2023, 11:28 AM
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#170
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Isn't 3/4 of the state descended from that one prophet?
Utah Youngs
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05-17-2023, 11:31 AM
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#171
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ottawa
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Salt Lake City Jetties
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05-17-2023, 11:34 AM
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#172
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Why would you be concerned about Quebec City? If Winnipeg can support a team Quebec City should be able to handle it fine. During their time in the NHL they were consistently above 95% capacity. Their worst year of attendance was 1991-92 when they hit 90%. My concerns about Quebec City would be attracting and retaining players. But there are only so many NHL jobs paying millions of dollars a year, so I think they would be fine in that regard as well. No worse than any Canadian team.
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Population, proximity to Montreal, lack of corporate support, previous failure.
Winnipeg is 750K (100K more if you count the surrounding area) and it has a fair number of large corporations headed from there. Cargill, Monsanto, Boeing Canada, Old Dutch, Domo, Princess Auto...
Quebec has 550K. It'd easily be the smallest population centre in the league. And I can't think of a single notable company head officed there.
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05-17-2023, 11:34 AM
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#173
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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They need a name that makes as much sense as the Utah Jazz. Something like the Salt Lake City Kangaroos.
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05-17-2023, 11:36 AM
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#174
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Originally Posted by getbak
They need a name that makes as much sense as the Utah Jazz. Something like the Salt Lake City Kangaroos.
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The Jazz were so lazy they just kept the old name from New Orleans. Of course, Utah Coyotes actually makes a little bit more sense.
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05-17-2023, 11:40 AM
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#175
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The Jazz were so lazy they just kept the old name from New Orleans. Of course, Utah Coyotes actually makes a little bit more sense.
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It's uncommon for NBA teams to change their name when relocating (or at least it was until the Thunder and Pelicans). L.A. isn't renowned for its lakes, nor Memphis for its grizzly bears.
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05-17-2023, 11:41 AM
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#176
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Van Island
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The Jazz were so lazy they just kept the old name from New Orleans. Of course, Utah Coyotes actually makes a little bit more sense.
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The Utah Jazz and LA Lakers names confused the hell out of me when I was younger.
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05-17-2023, 11:45 AM
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#177
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The Jazz were so lazy they just kept the old name from New Orleans. Of course, Utah Coyotes actually makes a little bit more sense.
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They would probably just stick with Coyotes. Coyotes could make sense literally anywhere in North America, except maybe the high arctic.
States estimated to have more coyotes than Arizona: Texas, California, Alabama, and Kansas. Utah doesn't have an exact estimate other than they are "thriving".
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05-17-2023, 11:45 AM
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#178
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Originally Posted by MrMike
The Utah Jazz and LA Lakers names confused the hell out of me when I was younger.
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They should have just switched names. Utah has plenty of lakes and while LA isn't a jazz pioneer, they have lots.
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05-17-2023, 11:46 AM
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#179
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May I present the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The most non-intimidating bird known to man, and there are no naturally occuring penguins within 15,000 miles.
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05-17-2023, 11:48 AM
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#180
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ottawa
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Population, proximity to Montreal, lack of corporate support, previous failure.
Winnipeg is 750K (100K more if you count the surrounding area) and it has a fair number of large corporations headed from there. Cargill, Monsanto, Boeing Canada, Old Dutch, Domo, Princess Auto...
Quebec has 550K. It'd easily be the smallest population centre in the league. And I can't think of a single notable company head officed there.
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Metro area is 840k, about the same as Winnipeg. It easily has as many corporate offices as the 'peg, and probably more. It is the centre of the francophone business community by a pretty wide margin, it's just that a lot of those companies aren't on the radar for ROC.
The economics of the NHL are so vastly different now that the struggles of the team in the early 1990s aren't really relevant, IMO. It's a strong and growing market.
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