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Originally Posted by rrskylar
Because it's Hamilton and they don't support their sports teams, that's why the AHL Bulldogs are moving and why the Ticats are playing their last year in Hamilton and why the NHL never wants to see a team there!
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The main reason that the NHL doesn't want a team to locate there is because it is less than an hour from Toronto and Buffalo (in opposite directions) and would draw fans from both teams (I am sure that the Toronto Maple Leafs would survive but it would hurt Buffalo more).
Based on what I have read (
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on.../hamiltons-dead-or-is-it/article1264739/ ), the downtown portion of Hamilton need to be renewed with new investment since the steel plants have significantly downsized. It seems like a good idea. In my opinion the owner of the Tiger-Cats is being unreasonable. Since the owner is a resident of the city, he should want to do all that he can to improve the fortunes of the city. They are already located in an industrial east end location (Ivor Wynne) so it seems to me that a west downtown location would be a step up. Personally, I think that the owner is out of touch with reality, the downtown is relatively close to highways but it sounds like he wants to be directly next to a highway. I would think that there would be better and easier connections to the downtown location and it is much closer to McMaster University. (just my personal opinion, I lived there for several years but that was 20 years ago).
The Rogers Centre has worked well in downtown Toronto so why wouldn't a stadium work in downtown Hamilton? (Does someone have an address for the new stadium - I haven't been able to find an address for the West Harbour location in any of the articles that I have read)
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