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Winnipeg has a great team and fans barely show up regularly there and you think Saskatchewan would be a good choice? lol mate, no.
Is Saskatchewan (CAN) suitable for an expension team
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Fire Sully
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They don’t have the kind of population or the money in that population to justify the ticket sales they’d need to charge at and concessions to fund the cap hit they’ll need to spend just to get to the cap floor to be even remotely “ok” as an NHL team. And trying to sell Sask as a place to live for a Euro or American player is going to be an insanely hard sell without the extra they’d need to pay the player to offset living in a place they’d consider punishment.
No owner with half a brain cell would ever consider that as a viable option. They’d be losing money every year.
JianYang
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After Saskatchewan, watch for flin flon, Manitoba as the next destination.
I actually read about that happening last night. Shortly after the move got blocked, the St. Louis Blues did not participate in the 1983 draft. I did not find any information on whether they withdrew from the draft voluntarily (perhaps in protest) or whether they were barred from participating, though I didn't exactly look very hard. That same draft, Montreal drafted Vladislav Tretiak in the seventh round (138th overall), who obviously never played in the NHL.
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Reading Bielefeld avignon and uppsala all have a pro sports team in the lower tier, and considering how most of their Leagues works its only for success to reach the top tier, but soccer is another story, so ok ahl team would be ok for me thats a good start
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You need people to inhabit that city.
You need jobs for those people.
Because there's like 20 better spots for a team in the USA and Canada.
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They will all work at building the arena
Then they can build a housing project for the builders around it
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At 1.25m total population and a growth rate of ~2%, mostly from immigrants who I'm not sure are spending money to go to an expensive sporting event, they would probably be one of the last places to get an NHL team.
No, because Saskatchewan is not Corporate friendly. Sask folks though are some of the strongest folks in this country. It's a province of independents. Great people. Of course their is some social problems, nowhere is perfect, but corporate life isn't ever gonna be the norm there. Which is honestly great.
Bender Duster
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I think Sask is better off being a WHL hotbed than trying to go after an AHL team.
Even then there's more feel good vibes to be had in Quebec City.
Exactly. There is something to be said for being the Halifax Mooseheads of the West.
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I haven't lived out there since I was pretty young so I'm not educated on the matter.
Any Saskatoon residents or people from the area remember Seafood Sam's? Use to go there to get autographs as a kid. Still remember Jerome Iginla taking me to get the whole teams signatures and take time out of their meal. Class act.
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The largest city in Sask is about 40% the size of Wpg which is the smallest city in the NHL. Not a snowball's chance in hell. Not even close. So far from close that I can't even describe it. And the number of players from there means nothing. It is completely irrelevant.
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There isn’t another western Canadian market out there. We already have 4 teams that’s plenty. Quebec is the only market that makes sense in Canada. Or Hamilton but I doubt the leafs ever let that happen.
Winnipeg is the most comparable and, even then, the population is half a million higher there. For the Jets to come back here, there had to be many things to fall in to place for it to work and for the franchise to be healthy financially and the product on the ice to be good. Despite other people's perception of Winnipeg, it works very well here but I cannot imagine having the population being half a million lower and it working.
Passion of the fans is sadly not the be all end all.
Passion of the fans is sadly not the be all end all.
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No! No! A thousand times no. Everyone does not get 1 sometime.
Winnipeg and Quebec City have Metro populations of about 840k. Saskatoon has 317k. Winnipeg has a team, QC does not. It remains to be seen if Wpg is going to be able to support a team when they go into a non-competitive cycle.
Green Bay is Football. 9-10 games/year. NHL is 41 regular season games plus 4 pre-season games plus up to 16 play-off games. Ticket prices are high. No billionaire is going to risk his fortune to put a team there.
Regina's metro population is around the same size as Tyler, TX or Appleton, WI. Saskatoon's is similar to Roanoke, VA. Even if you combine them together (despite being 3 hours away) you only get up to Lancaster, PA -- the 104th largest metro area in the US.
I often joke that there would be a team in Mexico before Quebec City or Toronto 2.0. There would be 3 teams in Mexico before one in Saskatchewan.
I often joke that there would be a team in Mexico before Quebec City or Toronto 2.0. There would be 3 teams in Mexico before one in Saskatchewan.
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