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:

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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.

The Crosscheck that broke Savard's Back

Boston, MA (Sports Network) - Boston Bruins leading scorer Marc Savard suffered a broken bone in his back after being cross-checked by Canadiens forward Steve Begin in Boston 3-2 loss Saturday in Montreal.

Ouch. I hope Savard bounces back and recovers from this next season. He's really come into his own in the league these last few years and has been one of the few free agents to live up to a big money contract. There were a lot of doubters after he left Atlanta saying that he only benefited from playing with Hossa and Kovalchuk. However, he's proved them wrong and showed that he can perform as a key player for the Bruins.

However, this is a crushing blow to Boston's playoff chances as Savard is their leading scorer and they've been slumping as of late going 3-4-3 down the stretch, while Washington is surging and nips at their heels only 2 points behind for 8th spot with a game in hand.

It's down to the wire. Gut check time. Fill in your sports cliche ___________________.