Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 10, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Winnipeg free october today salaries might make jets unaffordable what if we built the new Arena staff reporter to that w remember those Heady Days Back in May 1995 when tens of thousands of Winni Eggers descended on the Forks to save our jets and kids were emptying their Piggy Banks to do the same Well just we had done just that gone ahead and built a new Arena As spirit of Manitoba was proposing and kept the team right where would we be you ask consider this the average salary of a player in the nil jumped More than 34 per cent in the past two hockey according to the National hockey league players and according to nil commissioner Gary Bettman this salaries this season Are up yet and for the first time the average hockey player mind you will receive More than million us in compensation for one seasons the final numbers Arent in but Bettman speculated the average salary increase this season will be some where in the mid teens percentage bringing the total average salary increase to about 50 per cent in just three seasons since we tried to save the now consider this under spirits proposal to save the jets and make a new Arena salaries were to be Frozen for the first two years and then budgeted to Rise about 20 per cent Over the seven years after Twenty per cent Over nine according to a City if those projections were off by More than six per the plan became beyond the viability of the team Marc free pre9s re photo Banner marking jets first championship is lowered from would become an so what if the salary projections were off by 30 per cent and we were Only in year 3 of a nine year plan Jim for shudders to think about the what they would have incurred massive losses and wed have been stuck with a White said one of the forces behind thin the group that opposed spirits plan to have govern ment finance construction of a new Silver says the huge salary increases Over the past three seasons simply illustrate what nil officials at the highest Levels were telling spirit about their plan in projections were cuckoo land and Gary Bettman told us Silver nil officials had told spirit that a budget for salary increases of 10 per cent per year was a More realistic tar get and even that now appears to have been Overly despite the huge disparity Between spirits projections and actual salary spirit chairman Alan sweat Man still maintains wed All be better off if we had built the whatever happened with the wed still be winners As a said the plan was to keep the team in the but if we keep the wed have had this great under spirits if the jets ceased to be economically government could have bought out spirits share of the team and then sold the team out with the profits of the Sale going to pay Down the new t t thether the profits would have been enough to pay off w t the entire facility depends on How much the team sold Sweatman says the plan was Worth the Gamble and Hes unapologetic for the out whack salary pro we had no he the current version of the jets the Phoenix kept Pace with the salary according to no la the average salary of an Active roster player on the team is about million a players on the Edmon ton considered a poor Cousin in the nil and currently up for exactly plead poverty no la statistics show the average salary for an Active roster Oiler is still about the wonderful warmth of sheepskin fashion function in perfect Harmony i handcrafted shearling jackets and Coats from an array of fashion colors and the wonderful world of sheepskin 250 Dufferin 5868097 nerd my florists for thanksgiving Del Leflore Copper Pitcher bouquet the collegiate at the University of Winnipeg wishes to announce its 799798 Entrance scholarship award winners collegiate Silver Jubilee Entrance awards Catherine a Rydju Aton i i Summ Barbara Gajda time Krasuna collegiate Entrance scholarship senior 2 Kalbryn Arnold Undy Baker collegiate Entrance scholarship senior 3 Richard a collegiate Entrance scholarship senior 4 Julia Tykwan Tomlinson memorial scholarship senior 3 senior 4 Cass Wujka Campbell cubs on retard Ptah mud Paimli que tray collegiate students association Entrance scholarship Cam Howryluk class of 93 Entrance scholarship John de Jong collegiate alumni scholarship Chatou Cordia Stu Man cd Java Juliao Nell Jordan Charlotte Marie Kennedy memorial scholarship collegiate alumni association Entrance scholarship congratulations to each of the award for Awre wow Matwi about the Call the collegiate 4jf Winnipeg 515 Kim a Matt Manet qom Auto auction 11 instructed by the City of we will sell by in reserved auction the following 1994 Crown Holder tractors 8688 Complete with Broom Snow Blade 78 compar compressor parking ticket seizures 1988 Mazda 626 1984 Bulck 1983 Toyota 1986 Audi 5000 also included this Sale approx 100 other vehicles Bank off private and dealer consignments some subject to Reserve Many Sale led including i repos 89 Pont 95 Ford ext cab 94 Ford 94 Chev Cavalier plus More cars 92 953 92 Park 921 grand 91 94 Olds 94 Suzuki 93 Bulck 93 Pont sunbird More trucks vans 88 Ford it grand Cara 92 Astro 87 Chev 89 Dodge 88 Dodge 94 villager 86 Astro 90 Ford 92 Dakota 93 Pont Sun runner 4x4 plus much More trailers 30 Sierra by cobra slide out dam 18 sclera 5th wheel trailer dam aged Large Hilow trailer Misc John Deere 401b tractor front end Load Case tractor front end 93 Saturn double Axle trailer safeties plus other construction partial list Only to additions 4 deletions i Canh Deposit required it time of associated Auto auction 7130 Roblin i9s47m 1 pm West of the perimeter 1998 Chev Blazer Down jets Long gone but losses still haunt province million paid out in 9697 by Alice Fueger legislature reporter the Winnipeg jets Are Long but their financial hold on Manitoban pocketbooks More than a year after the team departed for its losses continue to show up on the books of the Manitoba the provincial governments latest annual report on its Urban economic development made Public this lists payments by the province for jets losses of More than million in fiscal even though the team was sold on july under terms of an agreement Between jets hockey the province and City of the province was responsible for half of operating losses for the Winnipeg jets hockey club up to and including june finance minister Eric who is on a tour of european Money could not be reached for ment provincial officials say the payout for losses into 1997 is due to an overlap that occurred because of Dif Fering year ends for the government and the the Manitoba governments 199596 fiscal year ended March but its obligations to underwrite losses extended to the teams year end on june that left three months of losses that had to be shown on the following years provincial officials stressed the million payout does not represent new team it was already included in the Bot Tomline figures the Filmon government gave to Manito bans in september the new statistics have renewed the political debate Over the value to Winnipeg of a National hockey league the government maintains professional hockey was profitable to the provincial but the nip says Manitoban took a the tories say total losses during the five year agreement totalled Mil lion and proceeds from the Sale totalled but when tax revenues Are factored the government estimates the Economy had a net gain of the Dps Tim who likened the recurring losses on the books to a bad hangover after a wild night on the takes Issue with the govern ments the opposition maintains that All things the Bottom line is More like a lion net Cost to the these numbers dont s4uare with the Public and unfortunately that a common picture that we see with regard to the he they deceived us in the beginning in terms of what they the team could be saved they deceived us in terms of what they were going to put in to save All of the numbers simply didst add up and these numbers dont add up any the latest Public which Are the final audited statements of the show the government took in million in Revenue in 199697 from Selling the Sale maintains once the million in losses for 1996 97 Are the province wound up with a net gain of Only but that does not take into account All the previous such As the provinces share of the losses posted in provincial auditor Jon Singleton said he has no idea who right and what the real Bottom line on the jets nor does he want to get into the Middle of the part of the reason coming up with numbers on something like this is very Complex and it depends on the kind of assumptions you want to make As to what is a Revenue and what is a he if he were looking at it strictly As an he he would look Only at the figures that went through the Public he said that would Tell Only part of the to get to the heart of the he would require an economic analysis As Well to determine the spinoff f s of hav ing the hockey team in sure there were All kinds of eco nomic spinoffs that were involved in the jets being Here that can Only be and an accountant per be int going to help you come up with those kinds of Singleton the City of Winnipeg notice of meeting Assiniboia Community committee Date october place Community committee 2000 Portage Avenue time regular meeting Public hearings to consider zoning matters All interested persons Are invited to attend for further information Call Inga Skundberg Community clerk Telephone 9863856 focal correction re october 11 flyer Page 29 Flower and Plant soil is Only available in 20 litre sorry for any inconvenience this May have caused our valued roses 88 i natural Gas furnaces Mariner Neptune 10 i Umof Hamu i Salmon is tajiks 10 Lumm team financing available Energy efficient he Abie Thomm jul no touting a Iamb ions i my so is olm i in h great West m 41 1998 Cavalier z24 Down litre Virtee air a Minum roof Luggage skid tilt erg Jse passion pc theft deterrent dual 4 wheel Abs tinted Tow intermittent wipers t track sold 4 litre 150 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