ADK34
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Fairbanks and Soldotna do it in the NAHL so it isn't too far fetched. Yet I would assume every WHL team would be against it.
And the aces have been doing it in the ECHL too for a while now so it is a possibility
Fairbanks and Soldotna do it in the NAHL so it isn't too far fetched. Yet I would assume every WHL team would be against it.
And the aces have been doing it in the ECHL too for a while now so it is a possibility
Would the WHL consider going to Alaska after the failure of the Aces? Or is Anchorage just a fail and too poor to support a pro sports team.
Of course it would never happen.I am sure there alot of teams that would like to see Prince George and even Brandon off the face of the map. (Due to travel). If they did (hypothetically) have a team in Alaska. Half the dub teams would have to fold. It would be too costly.
I'm not just talking about Alaska here. That is an extreme example of hypothetical discussion. I'm talking about expansion in general. It just isn't going to happen anytime soon regardless of location. I understand some enjoy discussing options and possibilities but I think it would be more realistic to discuss relocation and which potential teams would/should be moving. That is the much more likely scenario.
A lot of this expansion talk is a bit silly, IMO. I get it if it's merely hypothetical discussion for fun. But the reality is the league isn't going to expand. They have no intentions of expanding. If anything they have too many teams. Now if you want to discuss relocation that is a different story. I think a small handful of teams could be in that discussion. Obviously Kootenay at the top of the list. I think the league would be more inclined to protect some of the other smaller market teams with history despite financial troubles unless it got to the point where something drastic had to be done. Other than Kootenay moving somewhere else (ideally another team on the island, Nanaimo being the most logical) I don't think much else is very realistic at this point.
Please explain your rationale here. I don't grasp how people continually come up with the same unjustified argument that the quality of play is too watered down. Over on the QMJHL boards it's the same garbage. An 18 team junior loop and a couple of people want the league to drop by 4-6 teams? Great... so fans can watch the same eight teams continually. The reasoning over on the Q boards is that because there are blowouts at times in the Q, it means the talent level is diluted. Or how about more realistically, the cycles between competitive and poor junior squad are the constant cycles and ebbs and flows of a junior team. Stocking up for a couple of years for a deep run followed by a retooling period where teams struggle until their prospects develop....
Of course it would never happen.I am sure there alot of teams that would like to see Prince George and even Brandon off the face of the map. (Due to travel). If they did (hypothetically) have a team in Alaska. Half the dub teams would have to fold. It would be too costly.
The ONLY way they'd think about Alaska having a team is if Whitehorse or Grande Prarie had one, which is highly unlikely.
But I do hope one day Grande Prarie gets a team.
Brandon for that matter is always going to be in the WHL.
Dont the Penticton Vees have the biggest arena in the BCHL seating capacity wise?
The ONLY way they'd think about Alaska having a team is if Whitehorse or Grande Prarie had one, which is highly unlikely.
But I do hope one day Grande Prarie gets a team.
Brandon for that matter is always going to be in the WHL.
You could create a artic division
Alaska
Dawson City
Whitehorse
Yellowknife
You could create a artic division
Alaska
Dawson City
Whitehorse
Yellowknife
Why?
The WHL schedule is already frustrating from a fan's perspective, in that I only get to see the US Division teams every other year. Adding a bunch of teams way up north would have the same effect.
Up until 2012 you only Western Conference teams only got to see Crosby and Ovechkin every other year. No different here than in the NHL
You could create a artic division
Alaska
Dawson City
Whitehorse
Yellowknife
You could create a artic division
Alaska
Dawson City
Whitehorse
Yellowknife
That's disgusting to even think about.