How does league expansion work?

[sibiriak 84]

The Legue needs to get smaller not larger !

Why?

So it will be even more difficult/expensive to find a hockey game on TV?

So even fewer people would know what you are talking about when you mention hockey?

So even fewer new ice rinks would get built?

So thousands fewer kids will grow up watching and playing hockey?

So that in 50 years there won't be an NHL anymore?

Is that really what you want?

[Never_Retire_Steve 35]

The league still has enough issues to deal with before it starts thinking about expansion

[eva unit zero 271]

I guess I'm missing something. How does a decline in Canadian hockey players across the league equate with a higher talent level?

Because the only other logical option is that the talent level in the league has gotten worse, and therefore the 385th best Canadian player now is worse than the 450th fifteen years ago--meaning the quality of Canadian hockey has gone down the s***ter.

I suppose it's up to you to interpret, but I think Canada is producing hockey players at LEAST as well as it did fifteen or twenty years ago.

[BuckeyeWingsfan80 209]

NO NO NO.

I hate states getting more then one team, none more then Texas. Screw that.

I would like to see Seattle and KC get the teams. Winnipeg is more likely then Seattle though, as is Las Vegas.

I do think that 32 is the magic number, I cannot see any more then 32 working for hockey and I do think they should follow the NFL model.

Best thing about two new teams in the west would be trying to move Chicago and Detroit East and having two divisions holding the six.

We've already been through this at least 1,000 times already. Detroit is staying in the Western Conference. The NHL (meaning the NHL Brass) see Detroit in the west as their only viable option.

Chances are Nashville and Columbus would get moved first.

[BlueMonk 102]

Because the only other logical option is that the talent level in the league has gotten worse, and therefore the 385th best Canadian player now is worse than the 450th fifteen years ago--meaning the quality of Canadian hockey has gone down the s***ter.

I suppose it's up to you to interpret, but I think Canada is producing hockey players at LEAST as well as it did fifteen or twenty years ago.

Sure, that's a fair statement. I just wasn't quite sure how you were connecting the two when I first read your post. I get it now.

[TheLegend19 1]

How is Winnipeg MORE likely to get an NHL franchise? They already showed they couldn't support one before. And besides that, the NHL has already expressed it's desire to expand to more southern markets rather than another canadian team.

And what's wrong with another team in Texas? The state is certainly big enough. And they have a good arena to put them in. Seattle doesn't. Key Arena, which is where the NBA's Sonics play, is in awful condition and is only getting older and older. Houston, meanwhile, has the Toyota Center, which was built fairly recently (2002). And it has considerable seating arrangements, which makes it easier than expanding the seating room in a smaller arena. So what is it that makes Houston unfavorable for a team? Because their from the south? Please clarify.

Not only do they not have a decent arena, they haven't struggled the Supersonics (NBA) as of late. I remember reading at one point that their owner was seeking relocation. I don't think they are an ideal market, either.

Then again, I don't think the NHL should look at expanding for quite a few years, if ever.

[Guest pornstar]

the definitionof stupiidity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.NO MORE EXPANSION. Retract no matter how bad it sounds. And fire betman please.

[Never_Retire_Steve 35]

Bettman has these illusions of grandeur that really bother me, although I must say I'm glad that he does have a vision to make the game more popular, at least his intentions seem good