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Duane Rockerbie, an economics professor at the University of Lethbridge who teaches about the economics of professional sports, said in his estimation the NHL coming back to Winnipeg "would be a gold mine."
"My suspicion is Winnipeg would come close to selling out," said Rockerbie.Both Rockerbie and [Dan Mason] say Winnipeg has a better shot at getting a team relocated to the city than an expansion team because the NHL would not generate the same expansion fees from a Winnipeg market as they would from expanding a team into Hamilton. That's why, says Mason, he thinks the NHL is so against moving the Coyotes to Hamilton.See the full content of this document
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Struggling As Jets but Dying As Coyotes
11Dan Mason, a professor at the University of Alberta who teaches a course on the economics of the NHL, says the team was surely struggling in Winnipeg.
But with the abysmal failure of the team's transfer to Phoenix and rebirth as the Coyotes, th...See the full content of this document
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