bhawk24bob said:no, i said the nhl needs a team in chicago. whether you like it or not, the nhl needs teams in the biggest markets for a ton of reasons, all going back to money. i'll tell you what, we'll relocate the blackhawks to the quad cities, the bruins to little rock, the islanders to omaha, and we'll see where we're at. do you get the point? all are comparible to the size of edmonton in both population and how much the networks would care.
Here's the difference: They had 55,000 fans at a single game in Edmonton last year. I somehow doubt Omaha could scrape together that many fans for one game. Size of the city isn't the only factor, if it was there would be a team in Mexico City.