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Do You Want The NHL Back In Hartford?
by Paul on 11/16/11 at 10:49 AM ET
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from Jeff Jacobs of the Hartford Courant,
His price tag has to be correct.
The private sector has to want to buy into the project in a significant way.
His assessment that the arena improvements would meet NHL requirements must be right, too.
If not, the $105 million plan Howard Baldwin unveiled Tuesday for the redevelopment of the XL Center during the Metro Hartford Alliance’s Rising Star Breakfast at the Bushnell will remain a dream. A well-meaning dream, mind you, but still a dream.
The XL Center is aging. The asylum on Asylum is getting crazy gray. The restrooms and concessions are insufficient. The corridors are too tight. The locker rooms outdated. The once vibrant mall is dead. The joint has turned 36 and if nothing is done, Hartford soon enough is going to be looking at a 50-year-old pile of cement begging to be demolished.
Believe that much.
So what’s it going to be Gov. Malloy? State legislators? Mayor Segarra? More than that, what’s it going to be Aetna, Travelers, ESPN, UConn, both casinos and everybody else?
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While I am sure there is nostalgia for the Whale, Hartford is not really a viable NHL market. There are hockey fans in Connecticut but they have divided loyalty with Boston and NY,with Hartford never really being the true love of many fans. Also the NHL does not need more teams in the NE footprint. Only if the Isles moved from L.I. could it make a little sense. Lastly, Hartford is unlikely to ever build the state of the art facility needed to get a team.
Posted by timbits on 11/16/11 at 11:11 PM ET