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cneely said:Some will for sure, and those 2 or 3 nights a year when the roads are hard to travel on, they may miss a game or two.
I just looked at the weather stats for Winnipeg on weather.ca. I'm surprised at how little snow Winnipeg gets.
Yeah, Saskatoon's pushing it, but I think you underestimate how many NHL fans reside in Regina.
It doesn't matter how many fans reside in Regina. It matters that it takes SEVEN hours to get to Winnipeg from Regina. You're not going to get many fans from seven hours away.
I threw out a possibility back on the first page. It was rumored that the Asper family looked at purchasing the team back when they left Winnipeg. Global may be a good fit.
Sorry. I missed that.
But I don't think Global is a good fit. It doesn't fit their business model of purchasing US shows and simsubbing them over the American networks. They've got the rights to so many US shows that they have a second network in many markets to show them all. There just isn't room in their schedule to deal with the schedule of an NHL team.