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would really love for seattle to get a team since I'm moving out there next Fall :lol

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I just don't see 4 happening. 34 doesn't divide evenly and you end up with the same issue you have now. 32 is the magic number I think...and hope. The Northwest needs one and maybe Quebec. Let's not get greedy here.

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Think it's possible the NHL adds two and moves two? Yotes and maybe someone like the Panthers?

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That's palatable. Seattle, Quebec, Kansas City and.....? I mean I'll put it this way. The NFL has 32 teams. People think the NHL should have more than them when the NFL is much more financially viable across the country?

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i don't see why FLA needs 2 teams.

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Neither does SoCal (no offense to the Ducks) but there they are. I know both teams there have been successful, much more than so than the two teams in FLA but still, not really needed. But Disney wanted in back in the 90's and the NHL would have been stupid to say no.

So booked my second Red Wings game for the season. March 4th against the Rangers with my brother in-law. My wife's brother so not my sister's douchie husband thankfully. He's never been to a Wings game and wanted someone big and the defensing Eastern Conference Champion and Original 6 is pretty big. So I've seen the Leafs twice, Habs twice, Bruins once and now I'll see the Rags. Just missing the Hawks to complete the O6.

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Sounds like that 4th city might be Las Vegas...

http://www.thescore.com/news/563625

But I agree with you. The NHL having more teams than the NFL makes zero sense

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The NHL hasn't worked in Phoenix but...Vegas? Great idea.

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:lol talk about a sweet cross-desert rivalry

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there's pretty much an infinite amount of other things to do in vegas besides see a hockey game

terrible idea

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Agree completely.

edit: I want to add to this. This isn't the NFL where there is just one game a week. This is multiple games a week for an 82 game schedule. Just won't work, I'm sure of it.

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agreed as well.

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yea exactly...and on top of that, hockey is such an anti-vegas type of sport, very blue collar

i could see an NBA team catching on because the NBA is a circus just like vegas, but that's even a stretch

:thumbsup

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To be fair, the market revenues are drastically different. Disney or Not.

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Have fun and thanks for the compliments to the Rangers!

Anyway, I have taken the summer to get over it. I am now mostly positive about the experience of last year's run. What an awesome ride! Love my Rangers and love the sport! Can't wait for hockey to be back on. #anyonebutLA

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I'm still of the opinion that the NHL needs to lose a couple teams, not add more.

I'd love to see a team in Seattle, but if it happens take one from a current struggling market.

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Vegas makes no sense.

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:thumbsup

i love the offseason when we all agree with each other

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Cue Bron.

;)

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Well hey, with four new teams and the subsequent dilution of talent that would result, even I might be able to find myself onto an NHL roster!

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:lol That was my thought. Why stop at 34? Let's just go all out and give every state 1 team. 50 teams, 25 per conference. 32 team playoffs.

Let's make this thing year round. Really drive up that revenue.

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I think 32 in inevitable. I'm not sure I buy the 34 thing. We'll see though... My 32 would be move FLA to Quebec City, move the Yotes to Kansas City cause I still don't see them staying there past the 5 years they promised, and then expand to Seattle and....shit I can't come up with another city, Portland then?

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2nd team in toronto?

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They're talking about a 2nd Toronto team.

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there an echo in here?

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The Markham arena deal was shot down earlier this year so unless there is another suburb looking to house one, that's why I didn't include them.

edit: plus my scenario doesn't involved any rearranging of the conferences.

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NHL needs less teams, not more. Would never happen, but still.

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I started to think last night, maybe it's the NHL trying to drive up the interest and then in a way drive up the expansion price. I just don't see 4 happening. It doesn't make sense on a # of levels. Obviously the talent to go around is one. Another is you've got 2 franchises that are very big question marks in FLA and AZ. Then of course there's the whole unbalanced conferences and divisions. 32 gets you to 16/16 and 4 of 8. Seattle and Quebec are gonna happen in some form or another, I'm confident of that. So lets say those are your two expansion teams but that still leaves FLA and AZ. Where do they go if needed?

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A second team in Toronto would be even more of a red headed step child than the Mets and Jets combined. Bad idea, IMO. I don't like the Vegas idea either because of the gambling. It just feels uncomfortable.

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There is that problem that would fans take to a second team in TO? Clearly the interest is there, but is there enough fans who would jump ship? LeBrun did say on TSN, he thinks Toronto is a very long shot in this whole thing. When he drop them off the list, the league won't be expanding by only 3 teams, which means most likely, it'll be 2 teams. They promised Detroit and Columbus they would not move back West, and said it publically, so...will we really see Vegas and Seattle as expansion and then relocation of a team like the Panthers to QC? Also sounds like the arena deal, or lack thereof, is what is holding up the entire process. Vegas will get an arena soon, Quebec is ready next year, so that leaves Seattle, which it seems the NHL is very keen on. If I were a betting man (no pun intended here) I would bet on Seattle and Vegas to even things out, with Quebec getting the next relocation. I don't want Vegas but unless KC or Portland jump into the mix, I just don't see another city West to even the number of teams per conference.