QMJHL team moving?

[tank44]

Sure, it's 12 hours from PG to Portland, but try 12 hours and then a full day on a ferry. (And 7 hours is just the actual sailing; add at least an hour before for loading and then 30-45 minutes after.) And a ferry adds extra logistical challenges - anyone who has to travel on BC Ferries on the regular knows that you have to be flexible on travel, and that's a 90-minute sailing. If something goes wrong and you miss the sailing, you're screwed. Oh yeah, and additional cost.

Traveling on and off an island is a significant hassle. It doesn't compare at all to traveling to Portland or to Brandon.

Dude look at a map and ironic being posted by someone in Northern BC. Prince George is the outlier in the WHL being 5.5 hours from its nearest team in Kamloops. Portland is 2.5 hours from Seattle WHL, 3 hours to Everett, 3.5 hours to TriCities, 5 hours to Wenatchee or Vancouver, 5.5 hours to Spokane. Even if Boise got a WHL team it would still be only 4.5 hours from TriCities.

The WHL equivalent for Newfoundland would be if Juneau AK got a WHL team.

 

[MeHateHe]

Dude look at a map and ironic being posted by someone in Northern BC. Prince George is the outlier in the WHL being 5.5 hours from its nearest team in Kamloops. Portland is 2.5 hours from Seattle WHL, 3 hours to Everett, 3.5 hours to TriCities, 5 hours to Wenatchee or Vancouver, 5.5 hours to Spokane. Even if Boise got a WHL team it would still be only 4.5 hours from TriCities.

The WHL equivalent for Newfoundland would be if Juneau AK got a WHL team.

What does any of this have to do with what I said, which is that a minimum seven-hour ferry ride is a significant hindrance to an AHL or QMJHL team?