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13 hours ago, Noeller said:

I don't give two shits what NHLers say... I love Winnipeg (well most parts of it) amd Manitoba in general. **** anyone who disagrees. 

Remember: ESPN polled 50 of them. 50... out of around 700 in the entire league. Of those 50, 21 don't like coming to Winnipeg. ESPN then extrapolated that data. So, you're right: **** what a handful of these privileged, overpaid wieners have to say.

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7 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

So then, based on the spoiled athletic snowflakes who now play pro sports, only teams in the Sun Belt of the US deserve to have teams. 

That's not really fair. If you were to ask athlete's 30 years ago, they would have said the same thing. I don't blame them. It is cold, it is dark and it is dirty (with all the sand that we put on our streets). I still love our city and so do the players that play here.

They also had to pick one city and they picked many different ones. 

I blame the lazy journalists at ESPN asking ridiculous questions. 

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I don't recall when the World Hockey Association burst on the scene in 1972 Winnipeg having any trouble signing free agents. Bobby Hull was the best power forward in the world & he signed with the Jets. Other NHL stars followed like Thommie Bergmann, Serge Savard, Randy Carlyle, Chris Bordeleau, Ted Green, Ernie Wakely & Joe Daley  followed. Then there was the influx of Euros that came over in the mid to late 70's. No one ever complained about the cold weather. Or how dirty it was. I'm sure most didn't like minus 35 temperatures but they shut up about it. Just a different generation of players today.

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10 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

I don't recall when the World Hockey Association burst on the scene in 1972 Winnipeg having any trouble signing free agents. Bobby Hull was the best power forward in the world & he signed with the Jets. Other NHL stars followed like Thommie Bergmann, Serge Savard, Randy Carlyle, Chris Bordeleau, Ted Green, Ernie Wakely & Joe Daley  followed. Then there was the influx of Euros that came over in the mid to late 70's. No one ever complained about the cold weather. Or how dirty it was. I'm sure most didn't like minus 35 temperatures but they shut up about it. Just a different generation of players today.

It helps if you're signing a million dollar contract at Portage & Main. 

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16 minutes ago, JCon said:

That's not really fair. If you were to ask athlete's 30 years ago, they would have said the same thing. I don't blame them. It is cold, it is dark and it is dirty (with all the sand that we put on our streets). I still love our city and so do the players that play here.

They also had to pick one city and they picked many different ones. 

I blame the lazy journalists at ESPN asking ridiculous questions. 

It's only ridic in that its an easy question. Here's another easy q...whats your favorite city...bet it's Vegas. Bet! Get it?

The other questions were more interesting...

   Which team has the worst/best visiting locker room?

   The NHL doesn't punish for recreational drugs. Is that good or bad?

   Given the league's approach to recreational drug use, does the NHL have a cocaine problem?

   Do you have a burner Twitter account?

 

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22 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Are they still at the Fairmont? The one guy who liked it mentioned the casino and im like what casino?

Would have thought The Alt is where they stay now.

Yeah, they don't need to chit on Winnipeg. we do that already.

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As for rest of poll I'm shocked that EDM(WEM) and CAL(red mile) even got votes.

Hey at least no one called us the murder capital of canada...yet.

well unless they're going through the underground walkway to go to cityplace to go to shark club

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8 hours ago, JCon said:

It helps if you're signing a million dollar contract at Portage & Main. 

True but the other guys didn't make millions although at the time it was more money than they probably ever dreamed they'd make. Average players went from $20,000 a year to $75,000 a year back in the early 70's & I know that was a big deal to the players who didn't come from the NHL. The other thing is, they'd have got the money from other teams if Winnipeg never had a team.  Guys today are so spoiled in comparisons to that era. Especially when you compare the minor leaguers who signed with WHA teams. They were used to low pay, long drives to far flung places on the bus, cheap hotels,  cheap food & being treated like **** by their minor league teams. The dream of playing in the Big League wasn't easy but they still pursued it hoping for a break that for most of them would never come.  Then the WHA came along, Hull signed with the Jets, legitimized the WHA, big contracts were being offered to veteran journeyman minor league players & suddenly playing in the Peg with the cold & dirty streets wasn't that big of a deal. 

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The only pleasure I take from that list we're on is that according to NBA players, Toronto is the fourth worst city to play in. Not much to do & the weather is nasty & cold. Players don't want to play in Canada. That's probably why Vancouver will never get another NBA franchise. Does my heart good when I see the Centre Of The Universe means nothing to some kid born & raised in Charlotte or Los Angeles. Kawhi Leonard was one & done in Toronto. Gone to LA the first chance he got.

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