Debate on Quebec's $1 Billion NHL Market Entry Fee

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00:00A billion dollars they want for Quebec to get into the NHL, which I think is absurd.

00:10I mean, I could see 700 million.

00:14They've already charged 500 million for Vegas and Seattle.

00:17Why?

00:18Why a billion dollars?

00:20That makes no sense to me whatsoever.

00:22That's just robbery.

00:23I think that's just, you know, it's just criminal is what it is.

00:28But I think that market should be in the NHL.

00:32Yeah, I think it's time.

00:35I mean, if they're going to add more teams, I think that it's a discussion that needs

00:40to be had is to get Quebec back in the mix.

00:44They've gone back to a couple of other places already.

00:46As far as the billion dollar stuff goes, I mean, that's just typical nowadays, though,

00:50with all these leagues and these owners, right?

00:52They're all pigs.

00:54So it doesn't surprise me whatsoever.

00:56The thing is, is that somebody is going to be willing to pay it, which is why they're

01:00able to throw a number like that out to get it.

01:03And we've been through this a billion times.

01:05They can't go back to Atlanta.

01:07I know that they love that place so much.

01:10I don't know what it is.

01:12They're dying to have hockey work in Atlanta.

01:14It's never going to work.

01:17Stop going to Atlanta.

01:18Stop talking about Atlanta.

01:20I'd rather see them put second teams in other cities before going back to Atlanta.

01:23So just don't waste our time with that.

01:26Listen, no one wants to talk about it, but the reality is it's a hip hop hub.

01:30It's a rap hub.

01:32It's a black city, without a doubt.

01:35The brothers don't like hockey.

01:37That's just all there is to it.

01:39And all the white people live in the sticks.

01:41All the rich white people live 45 minutes away in the sticks.

01:44They tried to move the baseball team out of the city into the sticks because they want

01:49to be around all the rich white people and they want to move that hockey arena out to

01:53the rich white people in the sticks.

01:55I mean, honest to God, how many times do you have to fail and go broke or lose your entire

02:02fan base?

02:03They had 18,000 when they got to Thrashers.

02:05By the time they left, they were drawing six.

02:07I mean, nobody goes.

02:09No one cares.

02:10When you fail at something once, it's one thing.

02:13Twice, that's a trend.

02:15I mean, are you kidding me?

02:16They're going to put it back there again?

02:18I mean, honestly, it's just not meant for it.

02:21It isn't.

02:22It never worked.

02:23It never will.

02:25I'm sorry.

02:27I just don't buy that market for the NHL.

02:30I really don't.

02:34They talk about all these other cities, Kansas City.

02:40You heard Morenzi say Milwaukee, Portland, Portland, oh please, Portland's bad enough

02:44with the NBA.

02:46Quebec makes sense to me.

02:48You'd get more Quebec fans loaded every game and there'd be more Canadian teams that would

02:53matter because they want the Canadian teams to matter in the NHL.

02:57They haven't won one since 94, whatever it is.

03:00Look, what I don't understand is that why is there such a need to already add more teams?

03:09The league is as watered down as it is already.

03:13We just went in the last 10 years to Vegas and Seattle.

03:17Where else do you need to go so desperately that you're missing hockey right now?

03:24It doesn't make any sense.

03:25You can overexpand and get too much.

03:28The NFL is the greatest league in the country for a reason.

03:32They do it right.

03:33They make the most money.

03:34They have the highest ratings.

03:35They have all that.

03:36When was the last time the NFL went to a new place?

03:38They have not expanded in 30 years.

03:41Now look, Cleveland and Houston, they got teams back.

03:45Those cities got teams back.

03:47Those are not what I would consider, I know they were new franchises, but that was them

03:52replacing teams that had left.

03:54The last time they went to other places was Jacksonville and Carolina.

03:57That was the last time that they had it.

03:58And that was 30 years ago at this point.

04:02They're the most successful league in the country.

04:06And you don't see them running with how powerful and how mighty they are and going, we need

04:10to be here.

04:11No, let's add two more teams here.

04:12Let's go get two teams here.

04:14There's no reason for it.

04:15And hockey doesn't need to do it.

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