Hockey in Vaughn

Hockey team in Vaughn? I’m all for it.

I admit I’m not the biggest hockey fan. I enjoy the occasional game and will hop on the bandwagon. The idea of having another hockey option excites me nevertheless.

What intrigues me most is the idea that maybe I could afford to go to an NHL game. The price to see the leafs is out of hand. I feel that there are three types of people who attend leaf games: Business men who are impressing clients, friends and family of businessmen who couldn’t unload their tickets to advance their career or business, and other. The other includes the die hards who will just bend over and take the outrages prices of the ACC, and the occasional hockey game goer who found a great price off a scalper or was treated to a gift.

Those in the first two categories really sully the atmosphere in the arena. After all cheering too hard can result in a nice suit getting dirty. Or worse, it might appear ‘unproffessional’.

The addition of a in-town rival should be healthy for the city. A rivalry will give Torontonians an outlet for communication. We will acquire a new universal conversation topic: “Are you a Leafs fan or a Vaughn fan?”

But the biggest reason of them all is that Americans will talk about Toronto. Like any good Canadian, I love hearing about anything Canadian in the media south of the border.

We can handle another team. If the team is a third as popular in the hockey crazy city, we have a financially viable and potentially competitive organization.