from Ed Graney of the Las Vegas Review-Journal,
Bettman in announcing two years ago the league’s intent to consider expansion called Las Vegas “a city that has national and international prominence.” We will now see if it’s also one that can successfully confirm the NHL’s confidence in Foley and, in a much larger sense, this town.
This is bigger than UNLV winning its national championship in basketball and Greg Maddux making the National Baseball Hall of Fame and every Grand Slam trophy Andre Agassi held aloft. This is sports at a level Las Vegas has never known, an entirely different dynamic than ever experienced here. The potential impact of an NHL team, socially and economically, is immeasurable.
And you can bet others will be watching.
I always believed hockey would act as, for lack of a better term, the guinea pig when it came to which American sports league would arrive first in Las Vegas. An outfit such as the NBA would view from afar how the market embraces and supports the NHL before considering such a move.
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