By the European standarts, Miami is a tremendous hockey market. The Panthers draw more than 600k per season, that's a 1/3 of the SHL or NLA total attendance.
The more teams KHL has in Pacific region, the easier the travel becomes for the Pacific teams. Miles travelled are distributed more evenly, which is a good thing.
And we are on China..
Next step, why not Australia?
By the European standarts, Miami is a tremendous hockey market. The Panthers draw more than 600k per season, that's a 1/3 of the SHL or NLA total attendance.
How did this thread become one more "KHL expansion" thread?
I told you soThere was such thread already, it got merged into the Expansion somewhen cause there is no much to talk about. We all know that there are not many free spots in the league and Alaska is far from being a goal for expansion.
Remember that they play 41 home games, almost double to what we play here in Europe. With 600,000 in 41 games, the Panthers have an average attendance of 14,634 – Not the best (Bern has the best?), but one of the better attendances in Europe. Dinamo Minsk had an average of attendance of ≈ 15,000 last season.
But as you said, they are still a big hockey market compared to Europe!
Yeah Irkutsk, Murmansk, North Pole..
Did anyone see this White House petition?
"Thousands sign WhiteHouse.gov petition for Alaska to secede -- to Russia"
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...te-house-petition-to-return-alaska-to-russia/
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/alaska-back-russia/SFG1ppfN
Is it some kind of joke because of the Crimea situation or do the people of Alaska really want to belong to Russia?
It would be funny if it reaches over 100 thousand signatures so we could see a response from the White House.
Not to try to talk down on Americans, but some of their grammar can be awful, reading on the internet. So I wouldn't rule it out being an American.Based on the poor English grammar and the Cyrillic letters in signatures, I doubt this was started by anyone American.
I honestly don't think it has a chance, at all.
There is only one market in Alaska even close to big enough and that is Anchorage with about a quarter of a million people. Plus they already have an ECHL team and a NCAA Division 1 University team. And I don't think either of those are even close to selling out their games. I can't see how you could add a third team so the ECHL would likely have to move and are the local fans ready to just throw all their support behind a "Russian" hockey league? I just don't see them being able to generate the revenue for 7-10 million dollars in salary annually.
There are 2 NCAA D I teams, one NAHL team