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- <title>
- Feb. 19, 1990: Business Notes:Hockey
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 19, 1990 Starting Over
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- BUSINESS, Page 73
- Business Notes
- HOCKEY
- Ready to Pack Up Their Pucks
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- <body>
- <p> Nowhere is hockey hotter than in icy Minnesota, which boasts
- more than 2,400 amateur teams and some 100,000 players. But
- support for the Minnesota North Stars, the state's poorly
- performing National Hockey League team, is so frigid that
- owners George and Gordon Gund are threatening to move the
- money-losing franchise to Oakland or San Jose unless civic
- officials spend $15 million to install sky boxes and other
- improvements in the team's aging arena in suburban Minneapolis.
- </p>
- <p> Support for the North Stars hit bottom this year after the
- arrival of the Minnesota Timberwolves, a National Basketball
- Association expansion team. The newcomers are averaging a
- league-leading 24,000 fans a game in the downtown Minneapolis
- Metrodome. The North Stars attract just 11,000 fans a game,
- nearly 25% below the league average. Only a better arena, the
- Gunds argue, will save professional hockey in the state that
- produces more pro players than any other.
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- </body>
- </article>
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