[CoryB]

People keep overlooking a key point on my Bison hockey home games at The Rink suggestions -- The Rink would do a straight trade - Bison home game for rentable ice time **in the same time block** at Wayne Flemming.

Also the costs, cleaning, etc that limit the ability to rent out MTS Centre are all going apply to the large sheet of ice at The Rink. Perhaps they will use it for the RHA similar to how True North is heavily using the Camp Manitou rink now for their Jets Academy. At least if it is The Rink's in house RHA they have more control over what is happening there.

That said if your beer league wants to pony up the cash and play in a 4,500 seat arena perhaps The Rink folks will be willing to take the cash. Chances are most beer leagues will take a hard pass on that.

Where The Rink's WHL arena might make sense is MJHL games, Bison games, high school play off games, etc. The end effect is pulling in things that are otherwise using up ice time currently elsewhere and freeing that up.

As I mentioned elsewhere for games lower than the WHL level it isn't so much about making bank on the ice time rental itself but all the possible incremental revenue streams like concessions, etc. More people as spectators = more revenue. It's fairly simple and sorry, beer league games just aren't going to bring the needed cash to the table.