NHLEurope: Which cities?

[John Mandalorian]

Whether it’s a division as part of the NHL or a separate league, which 8 cities do you think would be included?

Choose 8.

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[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

A lot of those are nice cities, but make no sense.

Siberia, Russia makes more sense than Athens, Greece.

Would just pick a combination of Sweden, Finland and Russian cities.

 

[John Mandalorian]

A lot of those are nice cities, but make no sense.

Siberia, Russia makes more sense than Athens, Greece.

Would just pick a combination of Sweden, Finland and Russian cities.

Added other cities for those who might share a vision of branching out into less obvious options to grow the game.

Also just said somewhere in Russia because many will dismiss the idea out of hand.

 

[BB79]

No way in hell it'll be in the same league as the NA NHL. Travel logistics would be a complete nightmare. I say make their own league. Russia likely won't be included because of politics plus the KHL competition.

Anywhere in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany and Czech all make sense to start, expand from there.

 

[Murzu]

At least Helsinki, Stockholm, Berlin, Prague, Bratislava. I guess you'd be forced to pick a city or two from Russia.. Moscow and St. Petersburg would make sense. That's 7 teams which could be a division.

They wouldn't face against NA NHL teams during regular season because of logistics. So having one division would kinda suck, as it would be same teams over and over again. Either you need more teams added to the division (possible to some extent) or another division, which I don't believe is doable. There aren't ~14-16 cities in Europe that could provide NHL level product.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Wouldn't work revenue wise. Imagine a team having to fly that much for half of their games.

 

[MoeBartoli]

Didn’t vote as NONE wasn’t one of the choices.

 

[Coffee]

I got nothing bad to say about the OP, but I will also not be voting in this poll

 

[Albatros]

No thanks. Go to London if you must, the rest aren't viable anyway.

 

[Mobiandi]

The NHL is closer to expanding to Mexico than Europe

 

[John Mandalorian]

No thanks. Go to London if you must, the rest aren't viable anyway.

Relax guy. It’s hypothetical and doesn’t pretend to be more than that. It costs you nothing.

 

[elmaco]

Scandinavia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Czechia, Slovakia

 

[Elvs]

It's not gonna happen and I don't want it to happen, but just for fun, if I must choose eight cities from the poll options, here and now:

Stockholm
Helsinki
Copenhagen
Prague
Bratislava
Berlin
Paris
London

On the other hand, Riga is missing as an option big time. They would be in my top eight, but on the expense of what other city I can't decide.