Why did Quebec not get a team?

[Michel Beauchamp]

and 50% of the Canadian population is in Metro areas that already have a team versus 32% of the American population being in Metro areas that already have a team

And that is supposed to be a retort?

GIGO...

 

[ricky0034]

And that is supposed to be a retort?

GIGO...

depends if you'd rather make up your own math or not I guess

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

depends if you'd rather make up your own math or not I guess

Math is math... notwithstanding what a politician might say.

There is no "alternate math"...

 

[IWantSakicAsMyGM]

If not QC, what Eastern team is gonna make team #36 should we get that far? It doesn't sound like there's any other options left

Baltimore? Orlando? Jacksonville? Cincinnati? Cleveland? Charlotte? Virginia Beach? Richmond? Jacksonville? Providence? They all have metro areas with at least 1.5 million people. And that's leaving out both Memphis and Birmingham, which are both over 1 million.

 

[Ciao]

Money. As in, not enough of it.

If QC overwhelmed the NHL with cash, the NHL would welcome Quebec with open arms.

And maybe even in both official languages.

 

[Monsieur Miz]

The NHL ignores Quebec on damn near a disrespectful level and you expect folks there to attend? Sounds abit dumb, but they are showing integrity by not going. They should outright protest the game since a protest would get them on page one on all the social media sites.

People not showing up has nothing to do with the NHL. People aren't going because they hate the CAQ government. They announced these two random games when they were negotiating salaries in the public sector and they said there was no money left.

Still, if you want a team that bad... 10 000 empty seats is a bad look. It just gives Bettman more munition to never bring a team back.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I'm not even going to touch on the Quebec market size here, maybe if people want a NHL team to go back to Quebec, maybe there should be enough investors or an ownership group that wants them there enough to flash money to get them there

There really seems to be this idea where Quebec is somehow owed a team despite it not seeming like there is any sort of ownership or funding for a team to be there. The NHL isn't passing on Quebec for some sort of bias, it's because no one is making a legitimate financial case for why they should own a team. If there was an ownership group with a lot of money and a lot of local financial backing for a team, I completely believe that they'd go back to Quebec.

 

[ORRFForever]

Still, if you want a team that bad... 10 000 empty seats is a bad look. It just gives Bettman more munition to never bring a team back.

If Bettman can look past Atlanta folding twice, he can look past 10,000 empty seats.

As we both know, Bettman has NO interest in adding a team in Canada and the seating in QC is irrelevant. QC could sell out both games and have a 20,000 season ticket waiting list and Bettman would yawn.

Like I said before, for all the money Sportsnet/TSN pays to televise NHL hockey, they should pressure the NHL to add a Canadian team. If Sportsnet/TSN said, "We want another Canadian teams to make the NHL Canadian package profitable and we're not buying in until we get a guarantee of an 8th team", Bettman would start the process of adding another Canadian team tomorrow.