Let's talk about three of my favorite things: Las Vegas, hockey and Igor Larionov.
Nearly two weeks after the potential ownership group in Las Vegas announced it had 5,000 season-ticket commitments in 36 hours, they released an update late Monday saying they are "near" 7,000, which is to say they have less than 7,000 commitments—which is to say they added less than 2,000 commitments in 12 days.
To prove to the NHL that Las Vegas is a viable market, hopeful owner Bill Foley set a goal of 10,000.
Is that worrisome?
Probably. To get 5,000 in 36 hours then less than 2,000 more in the next 300 hours or so isn't good.
There isn't the obvious passion for a team in Vegas the way there was in Winnipeg when they reached 13,000 commitments in seven minutes for the oncoming Atlanta Thrashers. The counter-argument tends to be, "Well, they knew they had an actual team coming, not an expansion team with no players on it."
If Winnipeg was getting an expansion team, how long would it have taken to get to 13,000? Eleven minutes? Twelve?
This isn't about whether hockey can work in V ...
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