Bart9349
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I can think of 650 million reasons you will be proven wrong. This is happening in 2020, almost no doubt about it. Even if Seattle blew up they would award it to Houston. NHL owners are already pocketing that money and thinking that's their insurance against a prolonged lockout.
I think you are probably correct about an expansion team in general.
That said, there are many moving parts to any potential Seattle expansion team:
-Getting city approval for the downtown arena.
-Getting the season tickets nailed down.
-Although it sounds like 650 million shouldn't be a factor now, it might be if there were a stock market meltdown.
-As you mentioned, a potential prolonged lockout looming could deep-six ideas of future expansion (as well as kill NHL momentum with future revenues and popularity.)
-Finally (and most importantly for me), it would expose VGK to the fate of an expansion draft. Now, if you told me that VGK were somehow exempt from the disruption of a future expansion draft, I would say, "Let's go Seattle."
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