cbcwpg
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You know what I find the saddest part of posts like this - the ONLY reason Winnipeg is being considered at all is because of Bettman.
Bettman has nothing to do with Winnipeg being considered. The ONLY reason Winnipeg is being considered is because of Winnipeg. TNSE approached the NHL years before the Phoenix Fiasco, and let it be known that they were interested in a team. Bettman never approached Winnipeg. And the memo Bettman wrote saying Winnipeg should be concidered, was written after Winnipeg asked about joining the league. If you would take your "Bettman Love" glasses off for a second, you would see that Bettman didn't wake up one day and say to himself " I've done Winnipeg wrong, and I have to set thinks right ", no, he woke up and saw a chance to use Winnipeg if he could. All Bettman sees in Winnipeg is a last option to save his own _____. "Break glass in case of emergency!". But, if that gets us a team I can live with that.
There is absolutely nothing to recommend the city to the rest of the owners of the NHL. It does absolutely nothing for the rest of the league. Its presence only weakens the league's push for a good TV deal payday and in the short term will probably cause the salary cap and floor to go UP (though short term only).
Daly was recently quoted as saying having a team in Phoenix or not will in no way affect the TV deals being worked on by the NHL. So it doesn't matter to TV if Phoenix exists or not, nor if Winnipeg has a team or not. See, even Daly knows that having 9,000 households in a city of 6 million won't get them that big TV contract.
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