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[thedisappearer]

I would love to see another Canadian team. It's always bothered me that it's the national sport and we have more teams down here than they have up there. As an American with all these teams, it kind of makes me feel like a poser.

Meh. Quebec and Winnipeg didn't move south because they were model franchises.

[hockeytown9321]

This could hamper our Eastward movement.

[Statts]

Let Balsillie have a NHL team the man has been trying for years , and has been repeatedly shot down. A billionaire who is passionate about hockey can only be good for the game. Move the team to Hamilton. Just the rumor of the preds moving there a few years back had people reserving season tickets. Low risk, cant lose IMO.

Edit: Do they have an 20K seat arena in the area?

Edited by Statts, 05 May 2009 - 08:09 PM.

[henrik40]

you red wing fans that live outside the detroit area such as toledo or ontario, if a hockey team moved to your home town would you stop being wings fans and pick up the other team?

I would go to lots of the games, but my allegiance would still lie with the Wings. 110% with the Wings.

[redwingfan19]

move the team to london, it's out of the leafs boundaries so they could piss a moan all they want and couldn't do jack about it.

[8 Legged RedWing]

I would go to lots of the games, but my allegiance would still lie with the Wings. 110% with the Wings.

haha thats good to know, we cant be losin fans now.

[ToMaToToWnWinGsFaN_24]

move the team to london, it's out of the leafs boundaries so they could piss a moan all they want and couldn't do jack about it.

i was just thinking that!
and its in between detroit and toronto so that would make some good rivalries!

[jollymania]

I think london woudl work, even kitchener/waterloo/cambridge

Edited by jollymania, 05 May 2009 - 08:22 PM.

[C-TownWing]

you red wing fans that live outside the detroit area such as toledo or ontario, if a hockey team moved to your home town would you stop being wings fans and pick up the other team?

I've actually given this some thought...I reached the conclusion that there probably was a point about 10 years ago when I would've switched if Cleveland got a team. I was a relatively new Wings fan in the 90s and a switch would've been pretty easy. Hell, it took me until about the lockout before I stopped feeling like a bandwagoner. Now though, I'm in 100%, Wings fan for life.

My dad and I have this discussion all the time. He says if he moved, he'd switch to the new local teams, I say I wouldn't, my teams are my teams, period.

The Leafs aren't the only affected team. I'm just hoping it wouldn't hurt Buffalo too much.

[commadore183]

Statement by NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly regarding the Phoenix Coyotes

Question: who is Jerry Moyes?

[ToMaToToWnWinGsFaN_24]

Statement by NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly regarding the Phoenix Coyotes

Question: who is Jerry Moyes?

moyes is/was the owner of the coyoties....along with wayne gretzky

[shoe]

listen to this interview in the last half of it they talk to Ken Holland about Detroit in the east.


http://www.fan590.co...504_133408_7168

[betterREDthandead]

I think london woudl work, even kitchener/waterloo/cambridge

Putting a team in Kitchener is akin to putting a team in Lansing. It's too small. Simply being in Canada is not a good enough prerequisite for having an NHL team. You have to have a big enough population base to support it, as the Nordiques and Jets found out. Here's a good rule of thumb: if the population of the metro area is smaller than the total number of seats you have available over the course of the season, it's too small.

Hamilton only works because by itself, Hamilton is just big enough, but at least it's also at the center of a biggish agglomeration of other cities (Kitchener, St. Catharines, the western burbs of Toronto) and they get a little bit of a boost for being in a hockey-mad place. London is insanity.

[betterREDthandead]

good question..
im lookin at a map and of all the teams in the east..the atlanta thrashers are further west than any other team..so..maybe them?

Being about ten miles further west is not a good reason. How would you set up the Southeast Division? I think the most likely thing is just to rejigger the Western divisions.

[Cern]

Meh. Quebec and Winnipeg didn't move south because they were model franchises.

Evidently neither were the Bay Area, Minnesota, Atlanta, or Ohio, I guess none of them are allowed to have teams now.

[Hockeytown_Ryan]

WHAT?!?!? NO BAIL OUT!?!?!?!? J/K

[Esquire]

City of Vaughn, Ontario.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=276141

[jollymania]

Putting a team in Kitchener is akin to putting a team in Lansing. It's too small. Simply being in Canada is not a good enough prerequisite for having an NHL team. You have to have a big enough population base to support it, as the Nordiques and Jets found out. Here's a good rule of thumb: if the population of the metro area is smaller than the total number of seats you have available over the course of the season, it's too small.

Hamilton only works because by itself, Hamilton is just big enough, but at least it's also at the center of a biggish agglomeration of other cities (Kitchener, St. Catharines, the western burbs of Toronto) and they get a little bit of a boost for being in a hockey-mad place. London is insanity.

Kitchener/waterloo/cambridge is larger than london

edit: the metro area of london is bigger by only about 7000

Edited by jollymania, 05 May 2009 - 08:44 PM.

[ToMaToToWnWinGsFaN_24]

listen to this interview in the last half of it they talk to Ken Holland about Detroit in the east.


http://www.fan590.co...504_133408_7168

in a way that could work..having only two divisions in the conference as oppose to 3...
i can see that happening

[grwingfan]

Statement by NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly regarding the Phoenix Coyotes

Question: who is Jerry Moyes?

Nice Statement.....sounds like Moyes just F'ed Bettman hard! LMAO!!!!