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It was never about Columbus ... It was about Bettman's New NHL that will have 30 Columbus if it all works out his way ..futurcorerock said:You still have yet to back up your accusations regarding Columbus. I'm anxious to hear a rebuttle, being a fan myself.
There are many worse off teams then them in the NHL because at least they make money and are not bleeding the NHL Dry ..
My point was that how a team draws on the road is just as important as it does at home maybe even more .. You small town fans have to put yourself in Big Market shoes for a second to understand ..
When you go to a Columbus home game it costs you 50 bucks to see your team play Colorado and you get the joy of watching Sakic, Forsberg, Blake even if your team loses .. Then you send Columbus to Colorado for a game and fans they have to pay 200 bucks for a ticket to see their team play with little to no interest to see Columbus best dman Anders Ericksson play against the home team .. You wouldn't like it either if you had to shell out the Big money ..
Now Bettman wants to make Colorado into Columbus in on ice talent.. How does that help grow the Game ??
Even though Columbus makes money they still act like a small market team ..Who is their biggest UFA ?? Todd Marchant ??
Each Trade deadline they trade off their Geoff Sanderson's, Darryl Sydor's etc and it begins all over the next year.. This year there was lots of UFA available and no competition and still Columbus does nothing to bring a name player that would draw on the road.
It does a good job of staying in the black when it comes to business and the books but just recycles everybody else's old cast offs, Anders Ericksson, Lyle Odelein, Jaroslav Spacek, Luke Richardson etc etc .. If Columbus did not give all these cast offs holes they would even be in the NHL anymore ..
So its nothing against Columbus personally .. Its just that they are a team that has very little interest other then to the loyal fans in Columbus and now to make them competitive with the rest of the NHL along with a dozen other teams the Better more exciting teams that have the big stars need to be torn down in restrictive Hard caps so that NHL will lose interest everywhere ..
So sooner or later Columbus has to start acting like an NHL team and compete ,and the way the NHL is approaching it is to not find ways to bring Revenue Sharing to Columbus to allow them the opportunity to buy better players but rather tear down all the other teams so it doesn't make Columbus look so bad on the ice in competitiveness..
Again Columbus is just an example you could insert Carolina or Nashville or Florida or Phoenix and the arguement is the same ..