You might have heard that a little over two weeks ago, the fans of a would-be team in Quebec City, Quebec had a massive rally on the Plains of Abraham that drew anywhere between 50,000-100,000 supporters.
Winnipeg?
Uh, there have been surveys sent out to potential fans, asking them how much they would pay for a ticket and how often. They've also tried to access the long-term viability in supporting a franchise in Manitoba, beyond the initial and inevitable two-year surge; but other than that, they've had no such public rally of support to make their case to the NHL.
While these are certainly necessary prerequisites, where is the massive rally? Where is the public show of support? I can be just as supportive on a computer keyboard as many of these so-called "fans" out there. It's easy to comment when it's not your money.
Sure, there will be those that will say "We drew 14,000+ for the NHL exhibition game with the Chicago Blackhawks and Tampa Bay Lightning."
I say, big deal. It's been done that before and it didn't work. What's more, 14,000+ at the MTS Centre would rank exactly at the bottom of the NHL attendance ranki ...
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Has Winnipeg Done Enough To Secure an NHL Team? Quebec Has a Rally, Jets Nothing
October 18th, 2010 by Joe Mikolai Leave a reply »
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