Winnipeg Jets

[roccerfeller]

Originally Posted by dpenner

Bettman and Daly are in Glendale right now meeting with glendale officials and goldwater. Maybe he is just guessing an announcement will be made because of those meetings which could end very bad for us.

nice wavelength d

I think this is the last effort on the NHLs part.

This is going to be an interesting week guys...good or bad...

[roccerfeller]

Winnipeg by the Numbers

Brent Bellamy is part of that corporate base. He argues Winnipeg may not be a Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver but it “is a far wealthier place than it was in the mid-1990s.” To bolster his argument, Mr. Bellamy sends along an interesting set of numbers:

Population:

1994: 676,000

2010: 750,000

Average house value:

1994: $84,000 (Canadian average $158,000)

2009: $227,000 (Canadian average $340,000)

Total value of building permits issued:

1994: $300-million

2009: $1.1-billion

Housing starts:

1994: 972

2010: 3,200

Average household income:

1994: $43,000 (Canadian average $49,000)

2010: $72,000 (Canadian average $70,500)

Unemployment rate

1994: 10.4% (Canadian average 9.5%)

2010: 4.9% (Canadian average 8.1%) (best in Canada)

Total employment

1994: 318,000

2010: 425,000

Retail sales:

1994: $4.3-billion

2010: $9.8-billion

GDP per capita

1994: $21,100 (Canada $26,700)

2009: $37,500 (Canada $39,000)

Personal disposable income per capita:

1994: $17,700

2010: $29,900

Difference: +170% increase

NHL average ticket Prices:

1994: $34

2010: $49

Difference: +140% increase

Corporate head offices, companies of all sizes:

Edmonton: 157

Winnipeg: 129

Ottawa: 101

Corporate head offices, total employment:

Winnipeg: 6,890

Ottawa: 4,667

Edmonton: 3,428

Canada's 800 largest corporations:

Winnipeg: 32 plus three 3 subsidiaries = 35

Edmonton: 25 plus one subsidiary = 26

Quebec City: 16 plus two subsidiaries = 18

Ottawa: 15 plus one subsidiary = 16

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle1933707/


edit: Props to our very own SSP resident viking for setting the record straight

[Bdog]

Props to Viking for setting Shoalts straight...

[rypinion]

Originally Posted by roccerfeller

Winnipeg by the Numbers



http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle1933707/

You missed the cool part of the article, the fact that they credit Brent Bellamy as the one that sent those numbers to them.

Edit: Bdog beat me to it.

[Mininari]

Matthew Hulsizer running out of patience with Coyotes
DAVID SHOALTS
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Mar. 07, 2011 7:49PM EST
Last updated Tuesday, Mar. 08, 2011 11:58AM EST

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle1933174/

...
The city of Glendale, Ariz., has decided not to take any legal action against the Goldwater Institute for now, according to a source, but Matthew Hulsizer says other NHL teams are beckoning and he cannot wait much longer to complete his purchase of the Phoenix Coyotes.
...

[roccerfeller]

Originally Posted by Bdog

Props to Viking for setting Shoalts straight...

Originally Posted by rypinion

You missed the cool part of the article, the fact that they credit Brent Bellamy as the one that sent those numbers to them.

Edit: Bdog beat me to it.

Oh cool! That was viking??

I posted his part on HF and the Canada NHL thread here ill add it in

[yopaul]

Awesome to see them run that. Toronto sports journos blindly speculating on Winnipeg's economy is beyond frustrating!

[flatlander]

Originally Posted by Mininari

Where does this one come from?

Well placed source ... we'll see if it was really or just blowing smoke.

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by flatlander

My understanding is the hotel's a go regardless.
...

i dont believe that is the case.

[Keng]

It was reported that a slightly modified deal may be in the works, according to the Phoenix Business Journal. But Hulsizer has dismissed this totally. Check it out on the following. Hulsizer won't change deal

[bigcheeba]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle1933813/

Hulsizer won't change deal for Coyotes
DAVID SHOALTS AND MATTHEW SEKERES
Last updated Tuesday, Mar. 08, 2011 5:41PM EST

Matthew Hulsizer says he will not change the agreement he has with the City of Glendale as part of any 11th-hour attempt to keep the Phoenix Coyotes from moving.....

[Mininari]

How about this part?

"...
At this point, it appears the fate of the municipal bonds will be known within 10 days. If so, it is believed the NHL will make a decision then on whether to sell to True North rather than draw the process out even further
..."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle1933813/

[Jets4Life]

I can't believe this is happening!

I've waited half my life for an NHL team to return to Winnipeg. I honestly believe it will happen!

GO JETS GO
GO JETS GO
GO JETS GO
GO JETS GO!!!

[Bdog]

Originally Posted by Jets4Life

I can't believe this is happening!

I've waited half my life for an NHL team to return to Winnipeg. I honestly believe it will happen!

GO JETS GO
GO JETS GO
GO JETS GO
GO JETS GO!!!

If I remember correctly, you had a Tupac avatar a while back, and now it's the TSN jetsmeter (which should be way higher, imo), but what was your last picture? I could never figure it out...

[Reed Solomon]

Originally Posted by Jets4Life

I can't believe this is happening!

I've waited half my life for an NHL team to return to Winnipeg. I honestly believe it will happen!

Theres something nice about the idea that we might get OUR team back. If it was any other city, we might feel a bit guilty about it. Even if they don't call them the Jets - I can live without the name, really.. it was never really that clever.

But like any sports game, it aint over til its over. Is Bettman going to pull the goalie and try to push for an overtime win? Is Glendale going to call a time out and figure out a brilliant strategy at the last minute? Will they move the team to Las Vegas just to mess with us even more? I wouldn't put it past them.

[roccerfeller]

It would truly be poetic justice would the franchise that was born here, come back....

funny tupac was mentioned a few posts above as he co-starred in a movie named poetic justice with janet jackson.

[rrskylar]

I love the fact that GWI told Bettman they had no interest in meeting with him.

Would like to hear how Bettman explains to the BOG how he is accepting $170M from TNSE when Balsillie had offered $240M two years previous when the NHL picked up last years losses and probably another $15 million of this years losses (expected to be $40M)

[CorbeauNoir]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

I love the fact that GWI told Bettman they had no interest in meeting with him.

I believe it's the other way around. GWI invited the CoG, the NHL, and Hulitzer to an open-media discussion, to which only Hulitzer replied to.

[blacktrojan3921]

I personally find it disappointing that Phoenix is going to loose it's NHL team, I mean one of the main reasons that the Coyotes are royally screwed is due to the numbnuts decision of building the Jobing.com Arena in Glendale where the hockey fan population is... close to zero XD. If I remember correctly a large amount of hockey fans are more or less in the eastern side of the metropolitan area like Scottsdale.

[chrisallard5454]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
"GLENDALE, Ariz. -- NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Tuesday night that the conservative Goldwater Institute "has placed a cloud on the bonds" needed to complete the sale of the Phoenix Coyotes to Chicago businessman Matthew Hulsizer..."

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=357146