Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Could Edmonton be the next Gotham City?


Mirtle posted some funny stuff about Daryl Katz in the past.



For those who don't know, Daryl Katz is the soon to be owner of the Edmonton Oilers.

Daryl A. Katz (b. 1962) is chairman and chief executive officer of The Katz Group, one of North America's leading drug store operators with over 1,800 stores and owns and operates Canada's only national mail order pharmacy business, Meditrust Pharmacy Inc., one of Canada's largest institutional pharmacy operations. Katz is a former lawyer. He currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta.

He's really rich (worth 2.37 Billion), he's Canadian and he's also being compared to Batman.

Daryl Katz, the new Oilers owner, is being compared to Batman - or more pointedly Batman's alter ego, Bruce Wayne - for a lot of reasons: he's wealthy, he's a philanthropist, he keeps to himself and he lives in a cave.


Which begs the real question for me. If Daryl Katz is Batman... who is Robin?

I don't know.

Who cares.

All I know is that Gary Bettman is my candidate for the Penguin. I mean the likeness is uncanny:




VS.








On another Edmonton note. A committee seems to approve of the idea for a new arena downtown.

It would be an 18,000 seat 450 Million dollar arena. That's great but once again I'll ask the difficult question: Is this really going to make the wives like living in Edmonton any better? The committee better ask Pronger's better half first.

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