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From: mcdonald@sask.UUCP (Shane McDonald)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Re: NHL Expansion, if any
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 05:15:12 EDT
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> To me, the number one city ready for expansion is Saskatoon or
> Regina - the province is full of rabid hockey fans and they have been
> trying for years to get into the league.

Yo-ha!  Sounds good to me!

For anyone who hasn't been getting their "Saskatoon Star-Phoenix",
Saskatoon figures (and Wild Bill Hunter was told) that the main
reason we were turned down when we wanted to move the Blues was
because we didn't have a big enough arena yet.  Well, John-o,
Saskatoon is about to begin building an 18,000 seat arena, as soon
as City Council figures out where they're gonna put it.
We may get in the NHL yet.

HOWEVER, if Saskatchewan is going to have an NHL team, put it
in Prince Albert - in three years, they'll win the Stanley Cup.
(For anyone who doesn't know, P.A. Raiders won the Centennial Cup,
emblematic of Tier 2 Junior Hockey supremacy in Canada, for years
in a row, so they moved to Tier 1 (Junior A) 3 years ago.
This year, they won the Memorial Cup, emblematic . . . .)

Shane McDonald
(ihnp4!sask!mcdonald)