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Challenges Face Tavares
by Paul on 09/29/09 at 01:58 PM ET
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from Damien Cox of the Spin at the Toronto Star,
Five years after announcing the 150-acre Lighthouse Project, Wang still hasn’t seen a shovel in the ground. The scheme would include a new arena, commercial and residential development including a canal and all kinds of goodies, so naturally there are multiple layers of bureaucracy and politics to wade through, just as there would be in the GTA if such a plan were ever proposed.
Wang has complained the process is taking far too long, which is why he has set an unofficial deadline, and why local politicos are balking.
“We don’t tell them when they have to bring in a Stanley Cup,” said one town official quoted in Newsday.
That’s nasty. The once-great Isles have a lease at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum until 2015, but we already know from Phoenix the NHL doesn’t much worry about that stuff.
So into this maelstrom of insolvency and uncertainty goes Tavares. Stamkos had to deal with a lot of on-ice and off-ice issues in Tampa last season and survived, so theoretically so can Tavares.
It won’t be easy. But it helps that not as many people are watching the Islanders as once did.
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