by Ron Spence
The NHL was created in 1917 with the sole purpose of keeping one man out of the NHA.
His name was Eddie Livingstone – owner of the Toronto Blueshirts – and he was causing president Frank Calder and his three other owners nothing but trouble.
So, the three teams – under Calder’s direction – formed a new four team circuit, with a new franchise in Toronto called the Arenas.
Some ninety plus years later, Gary Bettman is “trying his darndest” to keep Jim Balsillie out of his league.
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As an offshoot from all of this nonsense, Bettman has given some Winnipeg citizens hope of another NHL team.
The following are some of the comments made by ‘pegers:
courtesy of arsenisms.blogspot
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courtesy of the Winnipeg Free Press
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from the Winnipeg Free Press
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courtesy of Winnipeg Sun
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Time.
Who would’ve thought 90 years ago that some guy who had made something called a blackberry would be offering $212.5 million for one of 30 NHL teams – a number spread throughout the southern part of the U.S.
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1 Bill Heintz // May 18, 2009 at 5:21 am
Bettman promised the owners a salary cap and a major presence nationallly in the USA. He is responding to the ownerrs wish to keep the southern teams…against all logic. A team in Winnipeg and a team in southern Ontario would rescue the NHL from economic suicide.
But I’ll believe it when I see it.
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