Si vous deviez choisir les emplacements de la première ligue de hockey nord-américaine à 32 équipes, quelles différences y aurait-il par rapport à la LNH moderne ?
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jummyspring
@Ligue nationale de hockey
Si vous deviez choisir les emplacements de la première ligue de hockey nord-américaine à 32 équipes, quelles différences y aurait-il par rapport à la LNH moderne ?
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jummyspring
26 Comments
Salt Lake City
I’d probably keep the Hurricanes in Raleigh, not move them to Charlotte.
Blue Jackets out of Columbus, move to Cincinnati.
I would put all the teams in Arizona
Something in New Orleans would fit the hockey culture. We could call them the South Quebec Beignets.
No team in Wisconsin? Booooo
Well this map shows Carolina in Charlotte so I’d put them back in Raleigh.
Removing Vegas is peak Reddit hockey fan behavior
Starting from scratch so no history is involved, I’d go with largest markets first (>4M). New York x2, LA, outside of LA, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, DC, Philly, Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix, Boston, San Francisco/Oakland, Detroit, and Seattle. That would give 16 teams in the 15 largest metro areas in the US (Inland California would partially be captured).
Next would be the largest Canadian markets with Toronto x2 (or Hamilton), Montreal, and Vancouver. 20 of 32 are accounted for.
The next areas would be looking for areas with hockey/winter culture that are large enough to support a team even when they suck. Edmonton, Calgary, Minneapolis, Ottawa, Denver. 25/32
Move on to larger regions that don’t have a team already – St Louis or Kansas City, Orlando or Tampa, Pittsburgh/Cleveland/Columbus/Cincinnati (would go with Pittsburgh due to no NBA or MLS team to contend with). 28/32
Then to markets that are growing and 4+ hour drive to nearest team – Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Charlotte/Raleigh. 31/32
Last franchise would go to one of Nashville, Memphis, Portland, San Antonio/Austin with a lean towards Nashville due to Houston and Dallas covering enough of the San Antonio/Austin area.
Adds: Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Houston, 2nd Toronto team
Drops: Winnipeg (market size), Columbus (could easily swap with SLC but Ohio as a state is overloaded with pro sports and colleges relative to geographic size), Buffalo (2nd team outside of Toronto takes precedent over a team in Buffalo), only 2 teams in New York City area instead of 3
Yes, but can you tweak the map so that nobody in the US and Canada can watch any game due to blackouts?
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Indianapolis and Windsor are the only two I could see having gotten teams.
Edit: and Milwaukee / Green Bay / Madison
I’m going to resist being a total Canadian knob and just spout off 32 Canadian cities. 😛
What I will say though is that ***it is beyond criminal to have 1 NHL hockey team in Southwestern Ontario.*** You could ***easily easily easily*** have a second team in Toronto proper and another in Mississauga. And probably chip a team into Hamilton and even London if you squint hard enough.
Montreal is also big enough to support 2 teams and I doubt QC is any less viable than many US locales.
I actually don’t think that league growth should be a zero-sum game and that we shouldn’t be forced to subtract to grow. I do think we would need a second league tier and promotion and relegation to support that, but as the league moves beyond 32, it gets a little silly to try to have every team playing one another and ranked against one another anyway. Either you accept promotion and relegation or the likelihood that the league will become highly regionalized in the future. To the point where you might even end up with separate Eastern and Western Leagues that only meet in the playoffs.
Add 8 teams, break the league into 2 tiers of 20 teams with 4 divisions of 10 teams. 5 teams in tier 1, 5 teams in tier 2 with one team promoted and one team relegated within each division every year. 4-up 4-down and you keep the league divisionally balanced. And in the future all new entrant teams join into the lower tier. With the league rebalancing between tiers as the number of teams rise. When you hit 64 teams, repeat the process with a 3rd tier.
You probably have to blow up the draft and bunch of other stuff to make that work, but I think that the dynamism would make the whole league more fun to follow. You also get to punish recalcitrant losers like Arizona and give the Québecs and Hartfords of the world the chance to put their money where their mouth is by starting in a lower tier. And why not shorten the regular season to throw in some FA cup style intra-divisonal play too. Every New Year’s we could be treated to the divisional cups where tier 1 & 2 teams face off against all of their rivals within the same division to keep rivalries stoked even in the case of relegations.
I’d put a franchise in Saskatchewan and call it the Dog River River Dogs.
There’d probably be one in Wisconsin. Whether it’s Milwaukee or Madison, there’d be one.
I’d be sure that Hartford, Quebec City, Salt LakebCity and potentially Houston got teams. It’d be a shitty money pit, but I’d explore NOLA getting a team as well. They’d be called Voodoo.
You have 34 locations in your picture.
I would create a rule where every player has a mic and must narrate what they’re doing while they do it
Sask and NS need teams. I’d move Salt Lake to Saskatoon and Atlanta to Halifax as the changes from your map. Lol
16 Teams in British Columba, 16 teams in Florida. Because if we’re going to factor in travel time, you might as well go all the way.
Also Wood Buffalo of course.
I’d put all the teams in Florida and watch the place burn
Ngl. If there’s a New York rangers, New York islanders, New Jersey devils, I’d say there could be 2 teams in Toronto, and even 3, but then the red wings would
Be crowded out.
This is not a post I should’ve clicked on today
I’d put 3 teams in Arizona just to piss off this sub.
I would look at the possibility of putting a team in Pakistan.