hurricanesfan123
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that question has been asked ever since 2019, when the league found no takers and elected to terminate the original Manchester franchise..... where's the owner, hurricanesfan.... like what Spectra, Cliff Rucker and Dean MacDonald accomplished to restart or are in active discussions now.... Portland, Worcester, Newfoundland, and Trois-Rivieres the league isn't actively pursuing anything in the midst of the pandemic..... that's the 1st thing.... 2nd thing.... how much damage did the original franchise do between switching leagues, and is there a fanbase large enough to not repeat what occurred financially to restart and/or sustain a franchise knowing you're spending at minimum at least 600 M to start engaging the league to their timeframe of December, even for 2021/22, that's not realistic or likely to prevent the same thing from repeating itself..... it's like any market or fanbase that loses a team, why was the decision made to pull the franchise, whether it was bad or at times inept ownership, violation of league bylaws or leveraging a franchise for illicit gains (Iowa Chops-AHL comes to mind in that case), etc..... it's not that Manchester is a "torched market", BUT sometimes it happens..... no matter if there's a fanbase that keeps getting their hopes up and dashed over and over.....
Lowell ended up that way as an example.....U MASS Lowell wanted their team to be exclusive, the pro team was sacrificed, AND No league has ever reentered that market.
that's the downside of being a fan of a given team in a given sport..... the business side of it.... eventually,wins out...no matter how it is spun..... when you go through multiples of these "business" DEALINGS it turns you off from what you grew to enjoy or watch that team or fanbase succeed..... half of the Monarchs fanbase blamed AEG/LA Kings, THEN PPI destroyed what remained to rescue the market because they had no clue how to run or market a pro franchise.
three things
1 i dont think manchester is comparable to Lowell
2 second what do you mean 600m by December haha
3 there is interest in manchester just read the thread!
again all i was asking is for manchester to join in 2021-22 they would have to have a plan/commitment by this summer it just seems like a stretch
If these interest rumblings happened a while ago the timeline would look more realistic for 2021. As said before trois riveries and manchester are on two different plants as far as progress both with the same goal
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