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Originally Posted by Lcsulla
I am still trying to figure out what retard thought vegas was the best city for an expansion team. What a absolutely stupid idea. They will never fill that arena, hell the only way people will even attend games is if fans of other teams take a trip to the casino's when their favorite team is in town or the casino's will be handing out free tickets to gamblers. What a god damned stupid choice....
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It's a pretty simple marketing strategy. The idea is to grow the NHL brand, and expand. By just sticking to your traditional markets where you know hockey will succeed, the brand stays stagnant. Bettman is hell bent on expanding the NHL brand, and hockey in general, which I actually like quite a bit.
Hockey is pretty over-saturated in the NE, midwest, and Canada. We already have enough teams in those locations, MORE than enough. We have our SE teams, Texas, Arizona, and California. Where else?
Vegas works as an experiment. People always associate it with the bright lights and casinos, but there actually is a pretty good metro area outside that not even close to being associated with that stuff. I have a friend that has a brother that lives in Vegas, and he's beyond pumped to be getting a NHL team, probably will get season tickets.
In addition, tourists can come in and it can become a "thing" to do there, and expose people to hockey that may not have before.
I'm totally cool with Vegas as a team. It helps that I love that Arizona and Dallas have teams too, though. I like the idea of expanding hockey.