If I see this point made seriously (this may be sarcastic, and if it is, my apologies) one more time, I"m gonna scream.
Yes, let's take a league that's going to struggle when it returns, and move two teams back to cities that, during the best of times, struggled with attendence and corperate sponsorships, not to mention are small enough media markets that the already shoddy television money (plus in the Canadian exchange rate) would come into affect.
Yes, let's bring back the Norqidues. Let's pluck the highly successful Colorado Avs franchise up and move them back to the Great White North because they've learned their lesson now and "deserve" this team more than those people in Denver.
Yes, let's move Phoenix back to Winnipeg, out of one of the top-10 media markets in the U.S. Let's take a team that, when they were successful, were one of the top draws in the city and just built a new, heavily taxpayer funded (I believe) arena. Because that's a way to keep the new fans from that city.
Yes, let's leave those two teams where they are but expand again. Because uncontrolled U.S. expansion is what got us in this mess in the first place, but it doesn't matter if Canadians get more teams. They know what they're doing with hockey.
*grumbles* I'll be back in a couple of hours from class, so I'm not running from responses. But *gah* this whole "Let's go back to Canada!" movement drives me nuts, almost as much as those people who think the North Stars were somehow "stolen" from a Minnesota that wouldn't even get close to filling up their arena after the team made a finals run in 1991.