Winston Wolf
Registered User
As a resident of Las Vegas, I can assure you 100% that Las Vegas couldn't support a team from any major sport. Hockey especially wouldn't work, although the Las Vegas Thunder had a very good following their first few years here. However, after Bonk and Zholtok left, the team went from IHL contender to league worst and the arena completely emptied. An expansion team simply wouldn't be good enough to keep people going to the games.Bicycle Repairman said:Disagree. Las Vegas has an affluent, growing resident population with no major sports competition.
Also, Las Vegas is the fastest growing city in the U.S., but why do people move here in the first place? Just because it's a very easy place to find low paying jobs; the weather and most other things here suck for full-time residents. So, most of this growing residence is Mexican descent and/or people looking for work, either way, not people who can afford tickets to an NHL game.
It's also true that gambling is not allowed on leagues which have a team located here. If you think the casino moguls are going to allow any money to be lost, then you have another thing coming. These are the guys who control this town, so it's not going to happen.