Well, Toronto is a huge sports city, they have hockey, 2 baseball teams(the only major league team in Canada, and a minor league team), basketball (which again, think is the only NBA team in Canada, although I could be wrong about that), lacrosse, although I don't know if they have a football team. The thing is, they have the corporate business to support it. I mean come on the Leafs? But it's impossible to get tickets to a Leafs game since they're almost all seasons tickets bought by companies.
Ottawa though, has a population of only 800,000 and it's only that high, because the amalgamated all the outlying farm land. When the Scotia Bank Place (formally the "Paladium", or something stupid like that, and the Corel Centre) was built, it was built in the middle of nowhere in an empty field. The main jobs in Ottawa are government (Capital of Canada here) or agricultural, with a side of tech jobs. Other than the tech jobs, those aren't the kind of businesses that can support a lot of professional sports teams. *shrugs*
I also had no idea that there was talk about getting rid of the Senators. *hugs hockey* Oh, that was years ago, they're not in any trouble at the moment. In fact, they've been having record selling tickets so far this year, and they made a ton of money last season, what with going all the way to the Stanley cup playoffs (and their little marketing ploy of making you buy seasons tickets for this season to buy game tickets in advance for the playoff games). No, I'm pretty sure that the Sens are here for a while at least, but those first few years were rough (they were in the NHL way back in the early 1900s, but disbanded, and were only remade in something like 1994).
Also, Yay! Someone to talk hockey with! During the play offs last year I kept making all these posts, and everyone would ignore them. :P
Also, heh, hello! By the way, I'm one of those people that like "personal" posts, not just fandom. Yeah, I like both (although it depends on the person sometimes). I figure, that if I just wanted fandom, well, I'd go to a yahoo group, or a message board, or a webpage. LJ is special, because not only can you squee over fandom stuff, but there are people that you get to *know* and become real *friends* with. :)
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Ottawa though, has a population of only 800,000 and it's only that high, because the amalgamated all the outlying farm land. When the Scotia Bank Place (formally the "Paladium", or something stupid like that, and the Corel Centre) was built, it was built in the middle of nowhere in an empty field. The main jobs in Ottawa are government (Capital of Canada here) or agricultural, with a side of tech jobs. Other than the tech jobs, those aren't the kind of businesses that can support a lot of professional sports teams. *shrugs*
I also had no idea that there was talk about getting rid of the Senators. *hugs hockey*
Oh, that was years ago, they're not in any trouble at the moment. In fact, they've been having record selling tickets so far this year, and they made a ton of money last season, what with going all the way to the Stanley cup playoffs (and their little marketing ploy of making you buy seasons tickets for this season to buy game tickets in advance for the playoff games).
No, I'm pretty sure that the Sens are here for a while at least, but those first few years were rough (they were in the NHL way back in the early 1900s, but disbanded, and were only remade in something like 1994).
Also, Yay! Someone to talk hockey with! During the play offs last year I kept making all these posts, and everyone would ignore them. :P
Also, heh, hello! By the way, I'm one of those people that like "personal" posts, not just fandom.
Yeah, I like both (although it depends on the person sometimes). I figure, that if I just wanted fandom, well, I'd go to a yahoo group, or a message board, or a webpage. LJ is special, because not only can you squee over fandom stuff, but there are people that you get to *know* and become real *friends* with. :)