NHL Expansion to 36 teams (5 national teams)

[jfc64]

Five new teams could have rules of a minimum of 12 (half a team) players from one country, say a "russian" team, a "swedish", a "finnish", a "czech" and a "suisse" team.

A good question is where these teams will reside in that case. Stockholm, Moscow, Helsinki, Prague and Zürich!?

Or New York (Little Odessa!), Houston, Hamilton, Quebec or maybe Duluth or Saskatoon?

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[Pirate King Luffy]

Don't think it will ever happen, but Cologne would be a good city for a team.

 

[BobColesNasalCavity]

No way Saskatoon lol.

 

[Royal Thunder]

32 is more than enough, any more just gets silly

 

[jfc64]

No way Saskatoon lol.

Saskatoon-Regina for a Saskatchewan team!

 

[Daximus]

Saskatoon-Regina for a Saskatchewan team!

We could do it. We'll never get the chance but we could do it.

 

[jfc64]

32 is more than enough, any more just gets silly

If european teams, Metropolitan teams could take turns playing in europe! (and the us) etc. One year at the time.

 

[jfc64]

Mexico City! 12 sombreros!

 

[Advanced stats]

Saskatoon is ridiculous lol.

Less than 300,000 people...

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

No..

 

[Dogewow]

Houston and Quebec are the only realistic options.

32 teams is enough. Seattle likely gets the expansion team and Quebec likely gets theirs via relocation.

 

[hansomreiste]

Stop with this European division, please. We already have hockey in Europe and we can watch it when we feel like. We also have NHL. Just keep having two different and beautiful things, instead of mixing them and making something stupid.

 

[Empoleon8771]

The NHL should retract before it expands again.

 

[IamNotADancer]

I'd prefer to see a 28 league team before we ever think about expanding "overseas".

31 (soon to be 32) is just way too ****ing much for a professional sports league, expanding to 36 is simply insane.

 

[Hymanbrah]

No way Saskatoon lol.

Darren Dutchyshen can be the GM.

 

[JuniorNelson]

A lot of small imaginations in this thread. Canadians tend to think small and cheap. We buy worn out submarines for example. This causes skull compression which leads to our Navy acting like little boys (who hate girls and their protests).

Hockey is international. The NHL is a poor excuse for a governing body. The sooner they get eviscerated by a class action lawsuit, the better it is for hockey (and hockey players).

In an NHL free world hockey could easily encompass European teams. Europe is like the East coast, all huddled together. An American team could easily play four games in a week. European teams would play East or West coast tours or even North and Southern swings through. That is not even a difficult issue, it just seems so because the NHL has never attempted a balanced travel schedule.

Canadian fans think small and the NHL head office is reductionist, so nothing will come of it. Don't act like it is an impossibility, though. It isn't.

 

[Party Kane]

Seattle should get a team and when Vegas inevitably flops, give that team to Portland

 

[tny760]

are you being serious?

i assumed this was a troll thread but then i saw some of the responses...

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

An NHL team in Duluth is the funniest thing I've ever seen suggested on this board.

 

[Johnnybegood13]

Seattle should get a team and when Vegas inevitably flops, give that team to Portland

Vegas is probably one of few teams that could struggle for years and still fill it's barn. It's here for a long time IMO.

Seattle will probably be the next expansion and I'm told Leslie Alexander is sniffing around again looking for a team in Houston, he's likely wanting a relocation team and the Coyotes fit the bill if they can't get a new building in Phoenix.

 

[VoluntaryDom]

Malmö

 

[BM14]

GTA team before any soft euro team.

Thumbs up, let's go. Good Tranna kid played in the GTHL.

 

[Hire Sather]

What is this nonsense??

 

[Goose]

A lot of small imaginations in this thread. Canadians tend to think small and cheap. We buy worn out submarines for example. This causes skull compression which leads to our Navy acting like little boys (who hate girls and their protests).

Hockey is international. The NHL is a poor excuse for a governing body. The sooner they get eviscerated by a class action lawsuit, the better it is for hockey (and hockey players).

In an NHL free world hockey could easily encompass European teams. Europe is like the East coast, all huddled together. An American team could easily play four games in a week. European teams would play East or West coast tours or even North and Southern swings through. That is not even a difficult issue, it just seems so because the NHL has never attempted a balanced travel schedule.

Canadian fans think small and the NHL head office is reductionist, so nothing will come of it. Don't act like it is an impossibility, though. It isn't.

Lol I moved to Vancouver last fall and you've summed up the Vancouver perspective on life pretty well with this post.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Maybe in 50-100 years. European teams are not going to happen until we have 2 hour or so trans Atlantic travel.