Income base numbers suggest Tulsa 'could' support NHL..

[les_stockton]

The Indian and tribe talk cracks me up.....

Why?

[les_stockton]

I think there's been a bit of drift from the original topic, which was the article suggesting viability (from an income point of view) of Tulsa being able to support an NHL team.  Personally, I would rather be paying AHL prices.  I doubt I could afford season tickets for an NHL team, but if someone could convince me that it wouldn't be out of reach, that's another thing all together.

Academically speaking, I think Tulsa (as well as other cities) has the income base to support an NHL team.  However, since football is king here, I don't see that seriously happening.  Repeating the premise of an AHL team here would be something that I would seriously like to see.  Having a rival team so close would be great.

However, as long as we have this CHL franchise, I don't believe any AHL franchise will even bother doing a feasibility study on it.
I hate to rag on the current ownership group all the time.  I don't have all the inside information on what they do behind closed doors.  However, I feel that hockey has been mediocre for a long time, with exception to the recent Ramsay seasons.  I think all of the other teams in the league (past and present) have had more championship runs than this franchise and I have to believe that it has something to do with ownership.  I just can't say beyond that.

I think it's cool that the article suggests Tulsa has income to support an NHL team.  I hope that will be more than adequate to support an AHL team as soon as we can get some serious changes with our current organization.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I've been to a few hockey games, but the crowds didn't seem to be that big.  Would that support NHL??  I'm guessing no unless there was a whole lot of TV income from somewhere.

[Hoss]

The Indian and tribe talk cracks me up.....

Go sit on it, paleface.



DISCLAIMER:  I am 1/16 Native American.

[okcpulse]

And since when does a city have to be the largest to be capital?  I can think of MANY instances where it isn't (Topeka comes to mind, Carson City in Nevada, etc, etc).

Nnnooo.  My point was that OKC didn't need to be the largest city in the state to become the state capitol.  Many Tulsans like to argue that OKC is the largest city in the state because it is the state capitol.  My point was that the city was already thriving without being the capitol, growing six fold between 1900 and 1910.  But okay.