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Don't forget the 3-4 creepy unattractive groupies sitting right behind the players bench who like Evander Kane just a little bit TOO much...

Hah, I love how the Leafs jokes are all becoming applicable to Calgary now.

A) An NHL team isn't going to be able to get away with cap-breaking B) Said salary cap is meant to even the playing field among teams. Most teams bounce around all over the place in terms of performance now, if having a winning team is the make-or-break element of a team's success you're essentially admitting inconsistency at best.

From what little I could see of the seats from the broadcast it was utterly ridiculous. I've seen better crowds at Mooseheads games for crying out loud. So they'd GIVE you money?

That's a terrible buisness plan for a sports team, particularly one with a salary cap. You might as well just say that at the very best Atlanta's viability will be a vomit-inducing rollercoaster ride. Ditto with any of these bandwagon-heavy teams, honestly.

I don't really see the problem. The logo has been tweaked numerous times through the decades - I believe even at one point the colours were reversed. It's still fundamentally the same logo just with an extra stripe.

I guess I'm the only one who likes actual italian pizza best D:

Out of curiosity, what the hell is the source of this 400 million-dollar price tag for the prospective arena? The Consol Energy Center cost 3/4 of that and can hold more people than this arena would, so what about the arena is producing this massive cost?

Am I seriously the only person on the planet who hates the original Sabres logo? I mean it's better than the buffaslug but that's like saying someone is 'better than Hitler'. It's like they couldn't think of an actual logo so they just tossed the team name elements into a circle and hoped they'd somehow work together. I mean imagine if this was the Red Wings' logo: http://img706.imageshack.us/i/1232931611582.png/

That dosen't make a whole lot of sense. Yzerman showed tremendous devotion towards the Wings - and still withdrew to join another team. Why is it suddenly illogical to assume that Y could do the same working for a team he has a fraction of the experience with?

You know, if you're going to rant and rave about how the discrepancy of the Canadian dollar being a contributing if not primary reason for Winnipeg/QC is a quote, 'LIE and a MYTH', it would help to provide some, you know, evidence as to why precisely that's the case. If anything you contradict yourself by making such an emphasized point about how said teams were bleeding money - if two teams back in 95, one Canadian and one American, both have identical attendance but the League is based around the American dollar, which one is going to fare better? Hell, even if for argument's sake the Canadian team attracts 2000 more people a night it would still lag behind financially because guess what - the physical number of people attending games means jack s***, it's THE AMOUNT THEY SPEND TO BE THERE that matters. Forget economics, basic math makes it evident that the value of the loonie had a huge influence, particularly given that for a while there were threats that Toronto and Montreal would be the only teams that'd be able to keep their heads above water. In any case it's irrelevant, the existence of a salary cap lends itself far better towards the viability of a team in either city today far better than the value of the loonie anyway.

Um, David Thomson is co-owner of the largest media conglomerate in Canada, which includes TSN. The rumored ownership group for a potential QC team would be headed by Quebecor, which is also a huge media corporation in Quebec and is in the process of expanding west. These people OWN the networks the tv contracts are signed to in the first place. Corporate partnerships for the MTS already have a huge waiting list, and partners waiting in line is only going to increase as the city's inland port project develops. I'm not sure I'd call 15+ years 'just recently'. The NHL and the North American economy in general has changed dramatically in that time, largely in favour of reestablishment of Canadian teams. Plus there's plenty of precedent for the reestablishment of teams in markets that have supposedly been 'proven' to be unsuitable.

Um, because then if they don't perform well you're stuck with them for their entire career.