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    Mr. (NHL Commissioner Gary) Bettman’s plan is not working out.” Moyes’ remark and similar suggestions by members of the Canadian and U.S. media have put the NHL on the defensive and irritated owners and executives from Carolina to Tampa Bay and Phoenix to San Jose. "People have such short memories ... The Detroit Red Wings had a season-ticket base of 3,000 or 4,000 at one point. Edmonton and Calgary, their franchises were in trouble. Ottawa filed bankruptcy. Pittsburgh filed bankruptcy. It’s so convenient for people to throw out these questions. They don’t have any understanding of the market and think failure’s an automatic." As Rutherford’s work over the last decade in Carolina shows, failure is rare in the Sun Belt. Full Article at Business Journal of Phoenix
    People have such short memories ... The Detroit Red Wings had a season-ticket base of 3,000 or 4,000 at one point. Edmonton and Calgary, their franchises were in trouble. Ottawa filed bankruptcy. Pittsburgh filed bankruptcy. It’s so convenient for people to throw out these questions. They don’t have any understanding of the market and think failure’s an automatic.
    SOURCE: Business Journal of Phoenix 1 month ago
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Business of hockey: Coyotes bankruptcy puts NHL Sun Belt teams in hot seat
  1. While time and circumstances may change, it doesn’t mean the decisions themselves were flawed or should be similarly changed.
    SOURCE: Business Journal of Phoenix 1 month ago
  2. We went back and examined our whole business situation
    – John Ziegler SOURCE: Business Journal of Phoenix 1 month ago
  3. If the NHL was only a Northeast sport, it would be far less attractive to me ... The fact that it is a national league in many cities makes it more attractive to national sponsors. The moving around of one or two teams isn’t going to change that.
    SOURCE: Business Journal of Phoenix 1 month ago
  4. Gary was very aggressive in pursuing what he saw as a developing vision ... What he saw, from my perspective as an owner, was that the largest income source is media. In order to create that (in this country), we needed to get into largely populated areas.
    SOURCE: Business Journal of Phoenix 1 month ago
  5. Hockey will not work in the South. Mr. (NHL Commissioner Gary) Bettman’s plan is not working out.
    SOURCE: Business Journal of Phoenix 1 month ago
  6. What we are, what we stood for, what we did, what we did best. Quite legitimately, the question was asked — what should we do?
    SOURCE: Business Journal of Phoenix 1 month ago
  7. We wanted two teams in Florida to have a rivalry, but there was no Sun Belt strategy ... It was where the urban areas were with a population density and potential for development of strong regional cable sports networks that mattered.
    – John Ziegler SOURCE: Business Journal of Phoenix 1 month ago

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