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Originally Posted by mattgrande
I doubt it (at least, not in the next year or two). A bunch of the teams are moving to California to start a new pacific division. Maybe Buffalo's affiliate, but I don't know who or where they are?
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I doubt the Rochester Americans are coming to Hamilton. That team has been in Rochester forever and is pretty well supported.
The trend is for teams to have their affiliates closer to them- perhaps a play for the Binghamton Senators.
It's unfortunate that the Marlies ended up in Toronto while we had the Bulldogs, because they're pretty much ignored here (in Toronto), and I think that would have been the ideal AHL team for Hamilton that would have guaranteed attendance and actual fandom. Hindsight is 20/20, but it may have been interesting in the past if a play for the Marlies had been made and Copps had been made available to MLSE for purchase.