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?

 

[tank44]

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?

Sorry, I read it initially that Portland to nearest team was 12 hours... not PG to Portland. My bad.

Growing up on Vancouver Island I get the ferry delays and issues. Most people dont realize you need to be there waiting at least 1 hour ahead of time and it takes time to unload, etc. Even Victoria WHL team has the ferry issue and one of the reasons to try to get Nanaimo a team so there'd be 2 teams on the island.