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Adam Messages: 6909
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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Skookum Jim wrote on Wed, 17 May 2023 13:06 |
smyth260 wrote on Wed, 17 May 2023 11:37 | In regards to expansion since QC is unlikely to get the Coyotes, I don’t want to see anymore expansion in my life.
That of course is wishful thinking but I think 32 is a perfect number. Half the teams make the playoffs and it can continue to be halved to a cup winner. Any more teams, and I think it becomes unreasonably difficult to win a cup. If we get to a league with 36 teams, 40 teams…just too many.
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QC would be the ideal choice for the game of hockey, QC hates Montreal (in general), it'd be an awesome rivalry.. they also are getting 18K attendance for their junior team in the playoffs.. I think they could support an NHL team.
But.. NHL Corp. is focused on USA TV.. and ESPN's favour.
Agree about more expansion.. the product is getting pretty watered down already.
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Worth noting - the Jets moved to Arizona because the Phoenix Roadrunners were getting 18,000 fans to watch an IHL team in their downtown arena. Location and price make some of these lower league teams more popular. Winnipeg isn't giving the same rabid support to the Jets already now that the team's peaked and probably on the downturn. I don't think there's any guarantee that a bad team thrives in Quebec at NHL price points either...
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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