I succeeded in turning a building into a business.
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The people here are very passionate about sport if it's presented in the right way. They want to be major league and they want to win. Two very simple things.Dave Checketts
We've got to get ready for that draft. It's real important. I want to understand what's done. If we have one of the first three picks, we could come away with a very good player.
Dave Checketts
The good news for St. Louis fans is I understand what we did right in New York with the Rangers, and I also understand what we did wrong. Where we started to go wrong with the Rangers is when we got away from a drafting, developing, being careful about a team chemistry approach with an owner that just wanted us to buy every big name in the business. That doesn't work in hockey. I knew it then, I especially know it now.
Dave Checketts
The fact that we have 44 to 50 alumni that still live here and still love St. Louis ... I want those guys involved with us, working for us.
Dave Checketts
The fans are the reason we get into this business. The fans here are worth a goal a game to the Blues.
Dave Checketts
These things don't work unless there's some public-private partnership there. The notion that any of this money is just lining our pockets is just erroneous. They're (the county and city) taking over the land, just the way they do with any other private enterprise. . . . This just happens to be more public because it's private sports.
Dave Checketts
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