Comments on: Peladeau’s Fox News North, Duceppe’s New Reason For Sovereignty: All About the Politics of Hockey–Some Questions

By: ck

ck — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:57:58 +0000

Still, with the high salaries of players and higher salary demands as well as a unilingual French market, with a considerably lower population, those problems still exist.

Not to mention, when the Bell Center was first built, and originally owned by John Molson, named the Molson Center, tax payers never paid for that. Why should the tax payers foot the bill for the new amphitheatre in Quebec City? Charest looks like he’s considering it. Great! After he tacked on that health contribution annually in that last budget that most will be able to ill-afford. Obscene really. More obscene, to add to Stevie Spiteful’s pork barreling and his spending for the rich and other waste that doesn’t benefit the majority of CAnadians, promising a budget with cuts to services, will contemplate footing the bulk of this 400 million dollar boondoggle.

If they really want to bring back the Nordiques, let peladeau pay for it himself!

By: Scott in Montreal

Scott in Montreal — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:30:53 +0000

The economics of the game have changed greatly since the Nords left. The Colisé was lacking in luxury boxes, the salary cap and higher relative value of $CDN has made profitability more possible. And really, as Mike Boone wrote in today’s Gazette, what Karl is most likely really after is a second french-language 24-hour sports network with 82 Nordique games to televise – which would be way more profitable than a third english-language all-news channel. What Québec sports journos are well aware of is the insatiable thirst of their audience for Habs news. It is breathtaking. The difference is that using modern (read: Web 2.0) media and marketing make it easy to whip up immense interest in a captive french-speaking market like we have here. And a new, second, hockey team for us to drool over right here is a great profit-driver.

By: Skinny Dipper

Skinny Dipper — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:18:11 +0000

I wonder what Eric Lindros would think of Quebec City getting a hockey team?

By: ck

ck — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:40:49 +0000

I think many of those big city players would feel the same way if they heard the news they were going to play in Quebec city tomorrow. It’s all a romantic notion. The problems with the Quebec city market; unilingual French media coverage; population, as compared to Players’ over inflated salaries still exist. Nothing would change. Difference is a cash strapped American market looking to unload financially insolvent teams, generally from smaller markets of the southern US.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:36:39 +0000

hi CK…Golly what a mess. All I know if I was a hockey player and I was sentenced to spend the winter in that crumby little “city” I’d take the easy way out. And kill myself…