Sanderson
Registered User
You do realize that the NHL is not currently planning any expansion, yes?NHL is just a Ponzi scheme at this point, being held together by expansion fees.
32 is more than enough teams. 36 won't survive. Hockey just sent that popular and never will be.
Besides, you'd have to find people willing to pay the expansion fees. If the NHL wants $1bn or more, that's a steep cost.
The owner of the Jazz for example, is worth $2.1bn. I doubt he's going to liquidate and pay a billion dollar fee.
Maybe criticise the NHL for what they are actually doing, instead of taking a claim that is completely disconnected from reality (here: 36 team NHL) and pretend that it is in any way real. It makes no sense whatsoever to criticise the NHL on this matter, when they have not made any plans for further expansion nor have given any indication that they are even contemplating further expansion at this moment.
How anyone can jump from Daly giving a vague complimentary non-answer to a question to pretending that the NHL actually plans a 4 team expansion, when that is nothing but a wildly unsupported claim from the OP and not even hinted at in the news article that is being quoted, is beyond me.
All actual news that exists, is that Atlanta is proceeding in the design-process for a new arena. One writer speculates that they might be interested in having an NHL-team again, which isn't based on any factual interest at all, just speculation. That's all there is to it. No firm interest from any possible owners, no comment from the NHL that they have even begun thinking about further expansion.
It's like some people just want to complain for the sake of complaining, and thus have to create something out of thin air.