It's Hell Without the NHL

No one but a Winnipegger can understand the psychological effect of the Jets, our short-lived NHL team, who were relocated to greener pastures in Phoenix in 1996, when I was but twelve years old. At that point, a city already dealing with an inferiority complex was dealt a crucial blow. It is part of the Winnipeg imaginary that we are not world class, we are not an important capital, we do not have any attractions that tend to draw observers from the outside world (there’s that Golden Boy, who sits atop our provincial legislative building, but he doesn’t even have a penis.

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