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The Future Of Nashville Is In Forsberg’s Hands
by Paul on 02/16/07 at 09:00 PM ET
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from Stephen Brunt of the Globe and Mail,
In so many ways, the Nashville Predators represent how the National Hockey League, in its cash-grab expansion phase, got it dead wrong.
When peddling franchises was the league’s real core business, the ruling conceit — which, to be fair, predates the Gary Bettman era — was that you could sell the game anywhere, just so long as you had the right demographics, the right arena deal. The pre-existence of a hockey culture was beside the point.
Just find an owner ready to pay whatever price the market would bear, by whatever financial means necessary. Let him in turn find compliant local politicians with an empty arena desperate for a tenant.
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