OHL Expansion

DubCee21

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IDK the viability or interest but there are 2 NY and 1 PA based NAHL teams that would make sense as far as location is concerned. Rochester, and Elmira in NY and Johnstown in PA which is about 3 hours south of Erie. I have no idea about their arena conditions or size. I did visit the Johnstown arena many years ago when it housed an ECHL team and it would be big enough.
 
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OMG67

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IDK the viability or interest but there are 2 NY and 1 PA based NAHL teams that would make sense as far as location is concerned. Rochester, and Elmira in NY and Johnstown in PA which is about 3 hours south of Erie. I have no idea about their arena conditions or size. I did visit the Johnstown arena many years ago when it housed an ECHL team and it would be big enough.

That’s sort of what I was thinking. The NAHL team would probably need to be an expansion style team though.
 

Petes1987

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There’s really only 3 arenas in the league that are outdated Ptbo Owen sound and Sudbury but that’ll be 2 soon once Sudbury’s new arena is built. 4 if you include North bay but they renovated at least fairly recently
The Peterborough Memorial Centre was renovated in 2003. It was modeled after the Barrie Molson Centre. It is a bit outdated but still useable.
 

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The Peterborough Memorial Centre was renovated in 2003. It was modeled after the Barrie Molson Centre. It is a bit outdated but still useable.
I mean it’s definitely useable but it’s not really up to the standards of basically every other arena in the ohl. I’d have to look at all across the chl but it’s probably bottom 10 if I had to guess. How many arenas in the chl have the benches on opposite sides of the rink that just tells you how outdated it is
 

Petes1987

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I mean it’s definitely useable but it’s not really up to the standards of basically every other arena in the ohl. I’d have to look at all across the chl but it’s probably bottom 10 if I had to guess. How many arenas in the chl have the benches on opposite sides of the rink that just tells you how outdated it is
The Ottawa 67s rink may have benches on the opposite sides. In Peterborough the city was going to put the benches side by side during the renovations in 2003 and they cannot do it because of the structure of the electrical system.
 

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