Pokecheque wrote:
I can't believe a Mafioso with a waste disposal business bought a hockey team, named it after the business, and gave it to his 17-year-old son. If someone came up to David Chase with that idea for a plotline in The Sopranos he'd have waved it off as too ridiculous.
And is Danbury that much of a shithole? It's like 40 minutes from New Canaan!
Danbury has its shitty parts and very nice parts. The area around the rink has lots of run down Victorian houses as the author says. Drive 10 minutes in any direction and you'll hit very well restored Victorians, 5 minutes beyond that and you've got McMansions and whatever else comes with upper middle class America. Probably only 5 minutes in a few directions. Imagine this- the real estate where they put a 40k sq ft double rink is in the shitty part of town, where real estate is cheap.
It's actually only 1 street behind the main drag of Danbury which is hit or miss as far as "niceness".
And yeah, New Canaan.... First time we went to play out there Miss18.1 said "look at all these hotels!" I was like "uhhh, those are houses kid. HUGE houses."
And I have to say, it was quite an interesting theory to get all the tough guys and intimidate the hell out of all other teams.
Granted, they wouldn't have been able to afford it without paying them for no-show jobs, but still an interesting idea. Searching hockeydb for certain stats and such... He should write a book on it-
Blood Money Ball.