Kenadyan
Registered User
No mas!! No mas!!
No more expansion please!! I appreciate the thought and effort put into the original post, but I'm not sure where the players are going to come from.
I sure as hell don't want to see an expansion draft where deep teams will start to lose players to the expansion markets, thereby weaking that team and diluting the overall talent pool.
For every potential owner/mayor pushing for NHL expansion, they are going to demand a marquee name for their franchise due to the hugh expansion fee they are paying. Whether that comes from the entry or expansion draft, they are going to demand an immediate marquee name to put people in the seats.
If the new owners and teams were willing to play with AHL level talent (as a previous poster suggested) for the first year or two until they could sign UFAs or RFAs, I'd be more for this idea.
No more expansion please!! I appreciate the thought and effort put into the original post, but I'm not sure where the players are going to come from.
I sure as hell don't want to see an expansion draft where deep teams will start to lose players to the expansion markets, thereby weaking that team and diluting the overall talent pool.
For every potential owner/mayor pushing for NHL expansion, they are going to demand a marquee name for their franchise due to the hugh expansion fee they are paying. Whether that comes from the entry or expansion draft, they are going to demand an immediate marquee name to put people in the seats.
If the new owners and teams were willing to play with AHL level talent (as a previous poster suggested) for the first year or two until they could sign UFAs or RFAs, I'd be more for this idea.