OHL "aggressive" expansion?

[LadyStanley]

About 1:08:30 in.

BoG met this past Wednesday. Perhaps 4-6 teams. Might be USHL teams.

USHL, BCHL teams considering "higher" transfer fees ($50k/player) to better keep guys around.

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[LadyStanley]

Could expand for next season.

 

[Melrose Munch]

Bad idea

 

[Bubbles]

BCHL teams considering "higher" transfer fees ($50k/player) to better keep guys around.

BCHL with the backwards thinking. They are independent now, so there's no transfer fee at all at the moment. A ton of guys have left for the CHL already. If they try to put this clause in the future, no one's going to sign with that league.

 

[ColinM]

I wonder if this is worth the added travel costs for the OHL.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Well, Youngstown is a halfway mark more or less for teams traveling to and from Erie into Michigan, so that's not really an add travel-wise. Muskegon is a couple hours west of Flint and Saginaw, so it's an add but not much of one.

Only question is if the OHL wants to add more. Even the next closest other than the development team is in the Chicago suburbs, and that's almost four hours in good conditions. That's a big add, albeit being in Chicago's backyard might be viewed as worth it.

Anywhere else further north or west is a huge add travel-wise.

 

[eojsmada]

USHL is basically no longer needed with the NCAA/CHL news. Just grab whichever teams want to join and sort it out in 15-20 years.

 

[Bonk]

I wonder if this is worth the added travel costs for the OHL.

That's my first thought. The OHL seems to hold all the cards here, I'm not sure how it benefits from adding USHL teams.

That said, as someone who wants the USHL to remain relevant, I'm all in favo(u)r of it.