Brian Graff : La LNH empêche certaines villes canadiennes d’avoir une équipe de hockey, alors qu’elle est obsédée par l’idée d’avoir des équipes dans des régions des États-Unis où il ne neige jamais.
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RainAndGasoline
@Ligue nationale de hockey
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NHL wants to grow the game. You get new fans by opening teams up in non-traditional markets(California is a great example of this, but I’m not saying California needs yet another team, even though I’m pretty sure they could support another team In San Francisco or San Diego because they hate LA based teams). You only shuffle fans around if you open another team in Canada.
Had the opportunity to get Saskatoon back in the 80s, didn’t work because of owner votes. Could be an idea now.
What they are doing is trying to put teams in the best media markets in N America. If it was totally that Winnepeg for sure wouldn’t have a team.
USA #1
Just another crybaby Leafs fan doing clickbait.
Not worth the click.
The truth is the only city able to support a team is Quebec City and Montreal has blocked them for ages out of fear they lose the Eastern Canada local TV market.
Toronto would block Hamilton in a second.
The criteria for getting an NHL team should have nothing to do with where it snows or where it doesn’t. That is idiotic. What it should and does have to do with is where money can be made. Sorry, a Canadian city with 250000 people doesn’t sell as well as an American warm weather city with 2.5 million. One has more earning potential than the other.
What does snow have to do with it? They play indoors.
Good thing snow has nothing at all to do with whether hockey will work in a town.
There‘s only one no brainer location for another Canadian team and that’s the GTA getting a 2nd team, much like New York or Anaheim/LA, However the Leafs, Rodgers and MLSE would never allow it not the NHL.
Let me know next time snow buys tickets or merch.
More people live in the US than Canada, deal with it!
Well this is some breaking news shit
I’m a climatologist. He’s gunna be shocked in 20 years when the Canadian cities don’t get any snow either…
So……..
Where people are?
Games are played indoors. You don’t need fucking snow.
Is this your first day here? This has been known for decades.
Ah yes, the state where it never snows: Utah
What does snow have to do with hockey????
Yes Quebec could probably handle a team but would never recoup where expansion fees are going. Only Canadian city that could get a team now would be a 2nd team in Toronto that we have probably missed the boat on
Look at population alone. The US has roughly 10x the potential fan base. You don’t overcome that deficit easily.
Growing the business and doing their job 😑
Putting the team in a tiny Canadian city because it snows 😊
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We need a surrey based teammmm
Bring a team to OKC OR TULSA
While I would love for the Nordiques to make a comeback, this ain’t happening. I live in SC, USA and there are 3 ice rinks near me and an ECHL team.
What does it snowing have to do with anything?
>it is obsessed with having teams in parts of the US where it never snows.
*looks at my flair*
*looks at my username*
People live where it’s warm. You got a fuckin point?
If there was a new franchise in Toronto then at least Sportsnet & TSN would have to divide their NHL coverage: 70% Leafs & 30% New Toronto Franchise.
Which canadien cities ? Maybe a second team in Toronto . But Calgary and Winnipeg can barely afford to upgrade their current arenas Ottawa Quebec and Winnipeg lost teams the NHL gave them
Bettman should take all the Canadian teams but the Leafs and send them to Phoenix. For the lolz
Holy bad take.
The primary focus of the NHL is to grow the game. You can’t grow it if you stick a team in a place that already has hockeys fans already spending money. It’s a known quantity.
God, shut the hell up. Hockey fans and certain people with access to a platform are the only sport where they absolutely get off on gatekeeping it. They not only don’t want to grow the game, they’d make it smaller if they could. They inherently detract from hockey cause their entire thesis is that the game isn’t entertaining enough to grow in non-traditional markets.
No shit
I don’t mean to be rude, but this man is a moron.
He starts off by saying that he lost interest in the NHL because of expansion and there were too many teams to follow. Then, he talks about how he loves to follow tennis, of which there are something like 500 ranked players on both the men’s and the women’s side. He also talked about how he still loves baseball, which has as many teams as the NHL.
None of that makes any sense.
Also, his argument that there should be more teams located in Canada and the fact that there aren’t more teams is an indictment of Canadian neoliberalism is just an unbelievably stupid opinion. Laws are not keeping NHL teams out of places like Saskatoon, Quebec City and Hamilton. Capitalism is what is keeping teams out of those cities.
The truth is a full building in Quebec City would not have been worth as much to the NHL as a 3000 seat college arena in the middle of the desert.
If Quebec City didn’t get a team this time around, it’s never ever going to happen for them. The NHL clearly bend over backwards to not put a team in QC. That is not because Gary Bettman or the owners, who are the guys actually calling the shots, hate Canada or Quebec or Quebec City. It’s because they love money and there’s just no money to be had there.
Believe me, I take no joy in saying that. Quebec City is one of my favorite cities in North America. if you’ve never been there, put it on your bucket list because it’s like traveling to Europe but staying in North America.
I would love for a team to end up there again! But I have given up on that front because that’s never going to happen.
The NHL asked Utah to step forward now, so they weren’t forced to go to someplace like Quebec City. I think they would’ve loved Houston to step forward but that’s not happening right now. I still think they are probably next in line.
I also think Salt Lake City, Utah is probably going to be a really good NHL city. I just have a hunch about that.
I absolutely agree that Canada deserves some more teams. But it’s bullshit to act like hockey only belongs in places where it snows.
Canada is poorer on average than Alabama. You would be better opening up the Alabama Slammers than another losing Canadian team
Where do they play hockey year round then? Hoth? Shit writer wrote a shit article.
I actually had a dream a few nights ago about the Arizona Coyotes relocation. Gary Bettman was so distraught by the situation that he died.
While I wish there were more Canadian teams, in my ignorant American pov, it seems everyone is a hockey fan in Canada. So from a business pov, why cut up the fan basis when you already maxed out your amount of fans.
I think we should start complaining about Toronto having a baseball team
I can tell by the headline and name of the website it’s posted on thats it’s not worth reading.
These Canadian cities are tiny compared to potential US cities.
Not just population, but also there’s more corporate intrest,
Not to mention less taxes for players and US dollar is stronger than Canadian dollar. It makes zero sense to put a team in Hamilton or Quebec when SLC is bigger than both of them