NHL Expansion back on agenda?

[Imgoingtowork]

It would be karmically amusing if the same guy whose new arena cost San Diego their NFL team built an arena that gave San Diego an NHL team.

San Diego can be exciting as team code thirty-three.

 

[Imgoingtowork]

Maybe Quebec.

 

[aqib]

It would be karmically amusing if the same guy whose new arena cost San Diego their NFL team built an arena that gave San Diego an NHL team.

The Chargers were leaving anyway. If Kroenke hadn't gone to LA the Chargers would have built their stadium in Carson.

 

[StreetHawk]

The Chargers were leaving anyway. If Kroenke hadn't gone to LA the Chargers would have built their stadium in Carson.

But,. also never felt right that the Chargers and Raiders would share a stadium, being in the same division.

 

[Sgt Schultz]

But,. also never felt right that the Chargers and Raiders would share a stadium, being in the same division.

Yeah, that was always going to be an odd idea.

Truth is, given the Raiders business history and ownership "style," I'm not sure anybody should be sharing a stadium with them. Heck, even in Vegas there were problems with what they wanted to share the stadium with UNLV. I THINK they eventually came to their senses and UNLV got what they wanted, which was a pretty routine situation for stadium use.

But the Chargers were not staying in San Diego unless a new stadium suddenly appeared.

 

[Final Baton]

Bettman saying in today's interview, that there has never been a proper bid submitted by a Québec City group (at 4:55, in english) :

Plateformes numériques : l'avenir de la LNH à la télévision

En entrevue avec Alain Crête, le commissaire de la LNH, Gary Bettman, a analysé le futur de la LNH à la télévision. L'affrontement Penguins-Canadiens est le premier match qu'Amazon Prime Video présente.

www.rds.ca

 

[GordonGraham]

Bettman saying in today's interview, that there has never been a proper bid submitted by a Québec City group (at 4:55, in english) :

Plateformes numériques : l'avenir de la LNH à la télévision

En entrevue avec Alain Crête, le commissaire de la LNH, Gary Bettman, a analysé le futur de la LNH à la télévision. L'affrontement Penguins-Canadiens est le premier match qu'Amazon Prime Video présente.

www.rds.ca

That has to be a lie

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-confirms-expansion-bids-by-quebec-city-las-vegas-1.3161771

 

[Brodie]

But,. also never felt right that the Chargers and Raiders would share a stadium, being in the same division.

there was a long-standing agreement in place to move the Rams to the AFC in this scenario, it had been agreed to at the last realignment in 2002

 

[StreetHawk]

there was a long-standing agreement in place to move the Rams to the AFC in this scenario, it had been agreed to at the last realignment in 2002

So they’d swap the chargers to nfc west to replace the rams? KC and Den likely want the rivalry with Raiders more than chargers.

 

[Brodie]

So they’d swap the chargers to nfc west to replace the rams? KC and Den likely want the rivalry with Raiders more than chargers.

Yeah that was the idea, and you'd have had a Missouri rivalry in the AFC West too

 

[rojac]

That has to be a lie

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-confirms-expansion-bids-by-quebec-city-las-vegas-1.3161771

The actual wording that Bettman used was something like "Nobody, who has been in a position to do what needs to be done, has come forward and presented a plan that says I'm prepared to do what is necessary to get a team here." To me this sounds like the application by Quebecor was deferred because Quebecor could not come up with the expansion fee, which has been speculated by several people n this board. The poster you replied to simply referred to this as a proper bid.

 

[Imgoingtowork]

Quebec is Foppa's ex team.

Quebec is the second favorite NHL team.

I think San Diego ready better NHL team.