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Bettman tells BoG league is officially opening expansion process for Houston or Austin to be owned by Friedkin family

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uhlaw97 said:
It would be embarrassing to lose this chance to a far smaller city like Austin. Any Austin team would be essentially Columbus 2.0. That said, the fact that their name is being mentioned has me worried.
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You know that Austin is the 12th largest city in the US right? And the 25th largest metropolitan area in the US?

Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, San Jose are smaller than Austin.

Comparing it to Houston. Yeah it's smaller. But that's like comparing New York City and Buffalo.

Austin has a lot of draws including having sustained a hockey team for a while and getting some big crowds. There are also a lot of transplants and big businesses here.
 
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Oh don't worry. I'm well aware.

Still, Houston is 3 x as large, and has the second most fortune 500 HQs in the country behind only NYC.

NOT having a franchise in a market like that while having them in markets that have so much less seems like a bona fide travesty.

Let's hope that that doesn't happen.

I guess one factor in Houston's favor is the fact that Tilman Fertitta has now publicly said that he'd be willing to let any Houston NHL franchise play in Toyota Center on an interim basis while the new NHL arena is completed. Given that any new arena will take time to build, and that Austin doesn't really have any existing arena that could compare as an interim team venue, that might be an advantage for Houston.
 
nucks88 said:
Who cares what a bunch of sleazy billionaires think? The league is a watered down shadow of what it was. But I guess money rules everything is certain parts of the world.
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And you continue to watch.

The sleazy billionaires thank you for your hollow moral objections 😏
 
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