NHL Expansion Back on Agenda

Always cracks me up when someone just reads the title and then asks something like that... on page 32 of the thread. :laugh:

Same people who used to drop into the Phoenix/Arizona megathread chapter xxxxx asking the same thing and I wanted to tell then to go back to the first one and catch up. :naughty:

At least I spared them going through the 23 or so precursor threads.
 
I don't get why the NHL won't go ahead and announce Atlanta if they are so sure they will go there and then worry about #34 later.
 
I don't get why the NHL won't go ahead and announce Atlanta if they are so sure they will go there and then worry about #34 later.
Not sure if they're looking through the two competing potential ownership groups (Krause and Carter). I truly hope they're really doing the due diligence with the financial background checks. Honestly, if the next group is thin with the checkbook, I'd rather have no team at all.
 
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I don't get why the NHL won't go ahead and announce Atlanta if they are so sure they will go there and then worry about #34 later.
All we have right now are theories as to why they're not. Are they giving potential ownership groups a final look? Are they waiting for the new CBA? Are they waiting on Fertitta in Houston to commit so they can announce both cities at once?

Who knows?
 
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Not sure if they're looking through the two competing potential ownership groups (Krause and Carter). I truly hope they're really doing the due diligence with the financial background checks. Honestly, if the next group is thin with the checkbook, I'd rather have no team at all.
Well if both deals have private funding for the arena so I would assume they have deep pockets. My thinking is that teams that come in on their own tend to do better like Vegas and Seattle. As opposed to situations were you have a bunch of teams come in together. The last big expansion had 4 teams come in over 3 seasons and two of them struggled for a long time. So if Atlanta needs 3 years to build the arena why not make a decision this year and let them get started and then see if Houston gets its act together.
 

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