Second Toronto NHL Team?
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About as likely as the Beatles getting back together.
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Second ME on this one ... BTW, shouldn't this be in the Toronto section? Or at least the Ontario section??
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many big cities in the world have more than 1 football club, or cricket team or Baseball team, or whatever. Why not in hockey?
That said, are Torontonians that fed up with the laughs that they want to re-tool from scratch? |
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Montreal even had two teams before the Original Six period.
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Gawd no........
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I think Quebec City should get the next one. That or Saskatchewan, since they can apparently afford such things with their resource boom
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Toronto definately needs a second team. From what I hear most if not all Leafs games are usually packed/sold out and the Leafs usually pretty much stink so what does that tell ya?
There is room there for a second team, the hockey market is so strong in Canada, the GTA could support a second team. It makes more sense to put a second team in that market than putting teams in far off southern U.S. states... |
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Over Bettman's dead dwarf body, it might interfere with his master plan to expand the NHL to Mexico..first team the Mexico city toreros,then it's off to south America with the Rio carnivals
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Winnipeg is proof positive that if you have an arena, and ownership willing to gamble, the NHL will move franchises up north. Bettman will swear up and down that this isn't going to happen anymore, but we all know the truth - at least half a dozen NHL teams are in dire straits right now and the ONLY reason they're staying put is that there's nowhere for them to play. There are cities with an arena but no owner (Kansas City) and cities with an owner but no arena (Quebec City, this is changing soon). If the GTA builds another arena and has willing ownership, they'll almost certainly get a team in short order. It may come with a $2-300 million expansion/relocation/territory fee, but they'll get one.
The Coyotes are looking ever-more-likely to move to Quebec for next season. The floodgates have opened, and Winnipeg was just the first. I forsee 9-10 Canadian franchises before this is all done, unless the US somehow has a miracle economic recovery in the next 5 years. The NHL isn't stupid, they're businessmen. If they can make more money in Canada, they'll come crawling back. Oh wait, they already did. :D |
Well, a second Toronto area NHL team, if it were ever awarded, would certainly "work". Games would be well-attended, decent corporate sponsorships would be obtained, a lucrative TV contract would be secured, and viewers would watch the games. People would buy merchandise. All of this is a near-certainty.
(Sounds like crude capitalist logic, I know.) However, the fly in the ointment is the NHL's stamp of approval. This will not happen until the situation in the U.S. becomes so dire* that the only two choices are a) relocating floundering teams and b) contraction. (*Not sure if things will ever get that bad, but we shall see...) Now, no league wants to contract unless it absolutely has to. It is truly the last resort, and is far less interesting than a franchise move which at least allows you to recoup some of your losses (sometimes even to make a bit of money) and save face. Even if it means moving to a place you don't really want to go to, and that just a few weeks before the move you were telling everyone that there were NO plans to move ANY franchises. Right Winnipeg? |
If the Leafs would allow a team in their territory, Hamilton would have had a team years ago.
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there are rumours that maple leaf entertainment (whatever the company is called) might sell to an American investment firm for 1.5 billion (they refused my 1.4 billion offer)
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