Are articles such as this one the reason Las Vegas will never have an NHL team?

Question

http://www.lvrj.com/sports/19384659.html

So our minor league team falls on their faces for 5 minutes and their entire season up to that point is forgotten. Thanks Ed Graney, now I understand why everyone says this city can't handle a major league sports team.

Answer 1

Well, if you were to take "Cyclones" and replace it with "Red Wings," then take "Wranglers" and replace it with "Penguins," you would have the Stanley Cup Final description in that article.

Now, enough pot shots at the non traditional markets!  The ice in Phoenix may be bad, but have you ever seen the ice at Madison Square Garden?  Hard to get worse than that in the NHL!  As for marketing, you have to remember that the ECHL is not only minor league, but it is lower-tier minor league.  That's always a tough sell.  We're still waiting for our Reno ECHL team to come back out of mothballs.  Minor league teams have to compete with the NHL in HD wherever you are.  I would rather stay home and watch the Islanders on my HD screen any night than go to an ECHL game when and if it returns to Reno.  I will definitely go to some games, and I will follow the team, but I will gravitate to the Islanders first and foremost.  That's the problem that marketing people have to overcome.

Answer 2

NHL teams don't belong in deserts. I'm surprised the Coyotes don't play on rollerblades. 'Blades would probably be faster than the slush they skate on there.

Answer 3

Graney is a douche!!!

Answer 4

Heck, that's the most coverage the RJ has given the team all season. Front page of the sports section too! Usually gets buried in a paragraph in the back. Graney is a jack@$$ anyway.  I do remember reading that piece; the boys forgot that a hockey game is 60 minutes. Happens to the best of them.  They still made if further than anyone thought, despite getting little help from the AHL team, which didn't make the playoffs. Calgary could have sent a few down from Quad City to help out after the Flames were eliminated from the NHL playoffs.  Tough loss tonight.

The real problem with a team here is that it will be marketed to tourists, and not locals.  Probably get free tickets for listening to a time-share sales pitch. Why do you think the arena is going behind the strip, instead of the old Union Pacific property?  They don't care about us true fans.