Globeandmail.com: A approve NHL side in Toronto?
from Canada writes: Tony. from Waterloo, Canada writes: Ok, so being from the Waterloo size I’m a minute biased… but I would identical to to see a team here. There are 3 things that are required to brand it oeuvre though: 1. Location.
The arena needs to be down in Cambridge court promising off the 401. This is to help draw in crowds from the GTA, Hamilton and even London. It’s a faster excursion to get from most of Mississauga such a milieu in Cambridge than it is to go from Mississauga to the ACC in downtown Toronto. It’s also far enough away to be out of any zoning restrictions for Toronto or Buffalo (though I’m unswerving they’ll both still complain). 2. They’ll have to get some fair corporate financing on board.
Having RIM connections will inevitable serve here, but they’ll also destitution folks delight in Manulife and Sunlife (the two biggest employers in K-W after RIM) involved. Like it or not, this is where the bills is. 3. This has to be marketed, and my word! even NAMED, a southern Ontario team, ie the set should be called the ‘Ontario Predators’ or whatever and NOT the ‘Waterloo Predators’. K-W in an of itself can’t fortify a team, but K-W along with Hamilton, west-GTA, London, Guelph, Woodstock, etc. could backup a team.
Kitchener-Waterloo just happens to be dexter smack-dab in the central of those Cities. There’s only 500,000 ancestors in K-W, but about 3,000,000 hoi polloi within 1 hour proceed of a likely colosseum off the 401 in Cambridge. Tony, you’re consummately bang on. This could really work totally well.
It’d be all about the branding of the new team. Probably 95% of America has never even heard of Kitchener/Waterloo, so the franchise would have to be branded as the ‘Ontario Predators’ or whoever. But please, no more distention teams! The associate is already sense too fat, they should have stopped at 26.
And this confabulation of European increase is assinine. Ontario Predators…….sounds kinda cool.
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