QMJHL team moving?

[LadyStanley]

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[MeHateHe]

I think the only way that professional/major junior hockey works in Newfoundland is if they can play the games via VR, or Star Trek-style transporters become a thing.

 

[jetsmooseice]

 

[Takuto Maruki]

There is simply no way to get a team to work in Newfoundland, in any capacity if we're being realistic. Your nearest Quebec opponent is Baie-Comeau. Your Maritime brethren are a flight away, and major junior teams, especially out west, only really use those once (or twice, if it's a championship series like Prince Albert and Vancouver) to cut travel costs.

Realistically, since I doubt that this actually comes to pass, is there anywhere in the Northeast/Quebec that would even want a team? Would Granby be? interested, I have my doubts that the Q will go down south into Maine again.

 

[Melrose Munch]

There is simply no way to get a team to work in Newfoundland, in any capacity if we're being realistic. Your nearest Quebec opponent is Baie-Comeau. Your Maritime brethren are a flight away, and major junior teams, especially out west, only really use those once (or twice, if it's a championship series like Prince Albert and Vancouver) to cut travel costs.

Realistically, since I doubt that this actually comes to pass, is there anywhere in the Northeast/Quebec that would even want a team? Would Granby be? interested, I have my doubts that the Q will go down south into Maine again.

This post is sadly 100 percent accurate. Organized hockey is done in Newfoundland and Labrador, it's time to move on. There is not enough money on top of what you have said.

 

[jetsmooseice]

This post is sadly 100 percent accurate. Organized hockey is done in Newfoundland and Labrador, it's time to move on. There is not enough money on top of what you have said.

Mile One Centre (or whatever they call it now) just keeps enticing people to keep trying, in spite of the history of pretty well every team that has ever played there.

 

[Masked]

Realistically, since I doubt that this actually comes to pass, is there anywhere in the Northeast/Quebec that would even want a team? Would Granby be? interested, I have my doubts that the Q will go down south into Maine again.

Cornwall, ON since they're unlikely to get an OHL team again.

 

[Mike Jones]

Maybe Fredericton would be a better choice for a QMJHL team?

 

[No Fun Shogun]

I feel for Newfie fans, but the distance makes it really cost prohibitive for hockey teams to be economically viable given the scheduling demands, especially as the rest of their league wants compensation for the bad travel there, too.

I almost think that the only way a team could succeed there would be a once a week sport like football, though I'm not expecting someone to bankroll a CFL stadium there.