From creating an 'NHL Village' inside the Ice District to massive gyms located in the bubble, Edmonton is trying to set itself apart from the heavyweights in the quest to become an NHL hub city. (via SportsnetSpec)
EDMONTON — One thing you learn when you grow up in Edmonton is dismissiveness.
In 1978 Edmonton hosted the Commonwealth Games, a small fry event. But it came away with a stadium that, 40 years later, is as nice of an outdoor stadium as our country has. In 2001 Edmonton took on the outdoor version of an event that had failed in Toronto — the World Indoor Athletics Championships in ’93 — and people laughed.
We don’t know where Edmonton stands in its quest to become one of the National Hockey League’s two hub cities, but it is clear that as the process has gone on, so too has their bid adapted to both make up ground in places where Edmonton simply can not take on a Toronto or Vancouver, and exploit their obvious advantages over a Las Vegas.
I know what you’re thinking. “The Delta? Sutton Place? How do you compete against the hotels in Vegas, Toronto and Vancouver with those chains?”
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