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August 18, 2005
I wish I was big
So it has come to this: one year after the trio of Lecavalier, St. Louis and Richards won a seven-game, Tampa-Calgary Stanley Cup final that began what has been a historic string of welcome events for the NHL's small-market cities, they appear destined to be separated because of an economy created with the intent of helping teams like the Lightning.
Sigh. There are nearly 2.5 million people in the Tampa/St Petersburg/Clearwater metropolitan area. It's the 11th biggest NHL television market in the US. Once again "small market" is confused with "market in which no one gives a rat's ass about hockey."
Posted by Chris Selley at August 18, 2005 09:41 PM
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Yeah, that common fallacy aside, Spector's been pretty confused for months now.
Here, he obviously doesn't know what he means by "intent". How was it that he interpreted that the intent of the CBA was to help a "small-market team" keep 4 top-level players, while at the same time believing that the intent was to make sure that "large-market teams" didn't hog all the good players?
I think the thought process is something like, "The Rangers can't offer a superstar $11M to steal one, so every team should be able to keep all their best players!" It's really pretty dense.
Posted by: Matt at August 19, 2005 01:44 PM