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Kansas City Waiting
by Paul on 02/20/07 at 01:10 AM ET
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from Randy Covitz of the Kansas City Star via the Mercury News,
“If you had gone to Vancouver, Calgary or Edmonton five years ago, you would have seen large pockets of empty seats,” Bettman said recently. “It came back. We’re still morphing into the new world; some clubs have done it better and faster than others, and some were healthy to begin with, but they’re all heading in the right direction.
“Nashville is in better shape now than it was three years ago, and my hope is they get their act together as a market and support this club. It’s the corporate community that hasn’t stepped up, and that’s a concern. Is that a hockey issue? No, it’s a Nashville issue.”...
“We have over the last year received expressions of interest from a number of cities,” Bettman said at the NHL All-Star meetings last month. “We’ve been focused on dealing with the franchises we have. I know there is a very nice, new building (in Kansas City), but we are focused on having 30 healthy teams right now where they are.”
So if the Penguins reach an agreement for a new arena in Pittsburgh, that will leave Kansas City eyeing Nashville or one of the two teams in Florida.
read on...recommended!
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