Could you help with a QMJHL Expansion Idea?

[Liam Whitton]

blocked UNB wanted or wants nothing to do with a professional team (Q, or otherwise) in Fredericton even back when the Express and the Canadiens were based there..... it's very similar to why Lowell is simply a 1 team hockey market and that is UMASS-Lowell....

Your right. Just a theory though. However the city is large enough for a team

 

[Barclay Donaldson]

Your right. Just a theory though. However the city is large enough for a team

There are plenty of cities large enough for a team. Fortunately there are a dozen or so other criteria that every viable hockey market must meet. This thread would never end if every people were just blurting out every city in the league footprint with a large enough population to support a team and then saying it is just a theory.

 

[Teaspoon salami]

I would love to see a team in the newly renovated Verdun Auditorium. I do think attendance would be better this time around because Verdun is no longer verdump anymore, but I doubt it would happen.

 

[ErikaPEI]

I would love to see a team in the newly renovated Verdun Auditorium. I do think attendance would be better this time around because Verdun is no longer verdump anymore, but I doubt it would happen.

I don't see an expansion happening, but I wouldn't be shocked to see a team like Bathurst, Cape Breton, or Val d'Or move; most likely to Verdun or Sorell. I know when Charlottetown was almost relocated, it would've been to Sorell.

 

[paul-laus]

I wonder if the Trois Rivières franchise with their new building would be considered by the Q if the current ECHL franchise eventually falters in that league with no natural rivals, no history in that league, and almost no emotional attachment for fans to connect with…

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

I wonder if the Trois Rivières franchise with their new building would be considered by the Q if the current ECHL franchise eventually falters in that league with no natural rivals, no history in that league, and almost no emotional attachment for fans to connect with…

unlikely, since St. John's collapsed in Mile One after the interference from SJSE

 

[Joe Lamb]

unlikely, since St. John's collapsed in Mile One after the interference from SJSE

What is SJSE ?

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

What is SJSE ?

the owner/operator and landlord of Mary Brown's Centre in St. John's.... home of the ECHL Growlers, now that the Edge have collapsed

 

[paul-laus]

Love to Fredericton in the Q at some point:..