Brian Graff: The NHL is preventing some Canadian cities from getting a hockey team, while it is obsessed with having teams in parts of the US where it never snows.
Brian Graff: The NHL is preventing some Canadian cities from getting a hockey team, while it is obsessed with having teams in parts of the US where it never snows.
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.
CynicMV
Had the opportunity to get Saskatoon back in the 80s, didn’t work because of owner votes. Could be an idea now.
pharrigan7
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.
No_Bank_330
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.
-Robrown-
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.
Uller85
Good thing snow has nothing at all to do with whether hockey will work in a town.
Strawhaterza
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.
Ocksu2
Let me know next time snow buys tickets or merch.
OccasionBest7706
I’m a climatologist. He’s gunna be shocked in 20 years when the Canadian cities don’t get any snow either…
HaroldBaws
So……..
Where people are?
JazzySkins
Games are played indoors. You don’t need fucking snow.
kidrockpasta
Is this your first day here? This has been known for decades.
dholmestar
Ah yes, the state where it never snows: Utah
yellowpurplezebra
What does snow have to do with hockey????
GroundbreakingCow775
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
Delicious_Action3054
Look at population alone. The US has roughly 10x the potential fan base. You don’t overcome that deficit easily.
yeetsqua69
Growing the business and doing their job 😑 Putting the team in a tiny Canadian city because it snows 😊
YooperGod666
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.
Testy_McDangle
Bettman should take all the Canadian teams but the Leafs and send them to Phoenix. For the lolz
Caunuckles
Read the article people. It’s a boring one about anticompetitive behavior. His larger point is the NHL’s refusal to have another team is anti consumer because it forces people to pay outrageous prices. Somewhat surprised he didn’t bring up the Sabres. So many southern Ontario residents bolster them economically.
Papa-OctDem
Instead of dreaming up conspiracy theories why not just enjoy the sport. Hockey is really a great sport.
Neb-Nose
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.
andrewb610
>Snow falls in 49 of the 50 states in most winters; Florida being the lone exception.
Jacksonville Jerkoffs confirmed.
Low-Decision-I-Think
Canada’s population is about the equal of California, let that fact settle in. For the good of the league, they need eyeballs and butts in seats. Canada is saturated.
*I’m Canadian.
Spez_Dispenser
Just bring back Quebec, then we good.
EvetsYenoham
Where do they play hockey year round then? Hoth? Shit writer wrote a shit article.
BobBelcher2021
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.
mellena
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.
Phasethedestroyer
Move it to Saskatoon. Have you ever seen them lose their mind for the roughriders? Imagine that for hockey
thecoffeecake1
I think we should start complaining about Toronto having a baseball team
Propaagaandaa
Saskatchewan would fill an arena
Mensketh
I can tell by the headline and name of the website it’s posted on thats it’s not worth reading.
NewGuy10002
Snow = hockey. Got it Brian Graff
HoppyToadHill
Raleigh hasn’t had measurable snow in 835 days.
icecream42568
Saskatchewan would be a great place for a team
HunterHistorical6795
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
turfdraagster
$$$$$
DaySoc98
Money.
FatherFenix
This guy’s going to lose his mind when he finds out about ice machines, snow blowers, and air conditioning technology.
AssInspectorGadget
I think it is time to relocate Montreal and Toronto, they are so far up their own asses about hockey that they are actually coming out as vomit.
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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.
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.
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.
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 😊
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.
Bettman should take all the Canadian teams but the Leafs and send them to Phoenix. For the lolz
Read the article people. It’s a boring one about anticompetitive behavior. His larger point is the NHL’s refusal to have another team is anti consumer because it forces people to pay outrageous prices. Somewhat surprised he didn’t bring up the Sabres. So many southern Ontario residents bolster them economically.
Instead of dreaming up conspiracy theories why not just enjoy the sport. Hockey is really a great sport.
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.
>Snow falls in 49 of the 50 states in most winters; Florida being the lone exception.
Jacksonville Jerkoffs confirmed.
Canada’s population is about the equal of California, let that fact settle in. For the good of the league, they need eyeballs and butts in seats. Canada is saturated.
*I’m Canadian.
Just bring back Quebec, then we good.
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.
Move it to Saskatoon. Have you ever seen them lose their mind for the roughriders? Imagine that for hockey
I think we should start complaining about Toronto having a baseball team
Saskatchewan would fill an arena
I can tell by the headline and name of the website it’s posted on thats it’s not worth reading.
Snow = hockey. Got it Brian Graff
Raleigh hasn’t had measurable snow in 835 days.
Saskatchewan would be a great place for a team
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
$$$$$
Money.
This guy’s going to lose his mind when he finds out about ice machines, snow blowers, and air conditioning technology.
I think it is time to relocate Montreal and Toronto, they are so far up their own asses about hockey that they are actually coming out as vomit.