Breaking news everybody Darryl Katz is a good businessman.
Breaking news #2, the oilers aren't going anywhere.
Now that we have settled that, lets move on to why i'm saying this. First and foremost the contract has been awarded to PCL to build the damn thing. Probably a good sign it's going to happen. PCL not exactly your budget pricing company. Also we have a mayor who knows how important this team is to the city. He is doing his due diligence to make sure that we aren't getting screwed on this arena.
Mayor Mandel knows what the oilers are to edmontonians. He knows its more than something to drop some money on. He realizes its a tradition that defined our city for awhile. He is doing what he has to do 1) to shut up the arts community because lord knows the second this arena gets approved they are going to want 7 museums and3 art galleries built to balance it out. So you want to throw some blame around there should be target 1. Second to all you people (you know who you are) who would have lost their minds if the city took the first proposal on the arena and gave a go ahead. You guys would be throwing shit fits, because this would be to expensive, this would be unnecessary, and you wouldn't understand the need for fancy locker rooms.
So what i'm getting at is the general public it to blame for all the arena delay. If we weren't so bloody stupid about everything dollar spent in our city we probably could have had a deal done for the arena and be in building. BUT as i say that we all need to realize again that the arena is going to happen. First of all were in a lock out season for the NHL so maybe we resolve that before we get the arena figured, the oil kings can't pay for the arena but the oilers can. I we have no income through the oilers why are we spending for a new arena.
Do we really want to rush a new arena so we can open it to a .500 hockey team, maybe this delay is good. Maybe we will be a cup contender by the time we get it built, instead of maybe a playoff team.
I know i'm bouncing around to different points fairly random here so try and stay with me. My next point is going back to Mr. Katz. He is a super genious, why wouldn't he go look at somewhere that just approved a new arena. For all we know he was chatting with people on the process they went through to get the arena. We don't know that he was there to check out where the Seattle Oilers could be playing. But if you were him would you tell people that....absolutely not you lead people on to think your moving so we get a deal done to keep the oilers in Edmonton and put them in the arena they deserve.
My last point, is to you people who are all of a sudden concerned with this, i mean this in the nicest way possible but FUCK OFF. Your bitching and complaining about a project that has been in talks for awhile but you just found out about over google so now your concerned. To all these people can you go away and go Occupy something (are people still doing that?) because i assume your the same people who supported that shit show.
To all the real Oiler fans and people who actually care you have nothing to worry about. The oil aren't moving, we will have hockey for many years to come. If i'm wrong about this (which i'm not) I will be more than happy to let whoever wants to throw a pie at me. But if i'm right (which i am) i expect to be able to throw a pie at you.
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