Bakersfield is owned by the Oilers. Fresno has an arena and no team. That may make sense.
AHL looks to be Chicago, I don't see the Blues going elsewhere, even to San Antonio, and it has been discussed heavily that Colorado isn't keen on owning or operating a team, at either level....
nothing is changing unless something has been missed since Lehigh Valley and the AHL isn't expanding next season, because they would've had a proposal submitted behind the scenes and released that when the KC Mavericks fiasco occurred....
where the Blues do go after 16/17 isn't publically known or truly confirmed....
ECHL doesn't seem too keen either on expansion front despite the losses of Alaska and Elmira, and Vegas must have missed the league deadline to submit a proposal for 2017/18...
Reno has been a running gag line since the merger of the WCHL and ECHL.....
I think we're still waiting to see how long SVSE can manage 2 hockey teams and the other ancillary events that happen at SAP Center, they said the Barracuda were only a temporary stopgap measure before shifting them within the Sharks territory, whether it be their practice facility et all.