Large Canadian ex-pat contingent there from the oil and gas sector
As someone who lived there just Ewwwwww
32 teams are perfect. If we must expand, let’s put one up north. Quebec City or Toronto #2. I know the NHL wants to markets to make more money so Houston/Austin/Kansas City would be preferred.
They’d need to add another team to keep the conferences even. So maybe Quebec too?
No income tax for games played there is probably a nice bonus for them.
Just goes to show: different strokes. You couldn’t pay me an nhl salary to live in the American south. Fucking hell.
Real question, why does Milwaukee not have an NHL team? It’s the only Big 4 sport without a team in Wisconsin and should be a big hockey market… feels like that would make some sense
Rich people live in a different world than the rest of us
Dump of a city
Markam because it be hilarious to see them win a Cup
Interesting that they chose “Scottsdale” over “Phoenix”. Is that a little PTSD? Or, are they just trying to play where they live? Or, are they saying that the only way for hockey to succeed in Arizona is if it’s in Scottsdale?
8 teams x 4 divisions / 2 conferences is perfect. Half make the playoffs. No need to mess with it. Just relocate Columbus and they’ll be fine
No more expansion.
I will never forgive Life for the fact that there is no NHL team in Milwaukee.
Hartford!
32 teams is the perfect amount unless we want to go up to 64, then 128, 256….
The fuck why would anyone want to go to Houston
Just add Houston and Arizona to west and Atlanta and Quebec City to east, it’s all inevitable and then take like a 15 year break from expansion at least
“players want to have more money”
Have any of them been to Houston!?!?
Good to see strong player support for Quebec. Quebec biggest problem is that a team there does not grow the game, at least in the eyes of the NHL.
Hamilton, but Buffalo would never allow it.
I think a 36 team league is coming within 10-15 years. Prime targets for the league would be…
Houston
Phoenix
Atlanta
Kansas City
Back up targets…
Portland
Milwaukee
If desperate…
Quebec City
I will say the Houston Aeros were a cool AHL team, it would be fun if they got revived in the NHL.
If more please halifax for one of them
Houston is the easiest answer and will happen.
I’m not a genius but the 4th largest city in the country should have a team.
🤣 “nhlpaplayerpoll” nice try Huston business moguls. As if a poll would ever dictate where people set up next to make money. “Its anonymous” im sure it wasn’t heavily influenced at all. They’re just setting you up to feel normal about it.
Who puts Houston ahead of this ranking.?!?? Silly silly voters
I stated it in another reply here, but I’ve lived in Houston for the last 25 years and don’t see it ever working. People are mostly clueless about hockey down here. Many think it’s a WWE style event that’s staged lol. There are like 3 good sheets of ice here and one of those is closing down soon. Dallas is obviously light years ahead these days, and I think it would be damn near impossible for Houston to catch up to it. Most people I’ve talked to over the years seem to be just fine with baseball/football/soccer here. It sucks.
Halifax
I mean, it’s a player poll, so I can see why they’d rather visit an additional warm climate a couple of times a year than go to yet another frozen tundra.
What about Detroit? They’ve been clamoring for an NHL team for years, lol.
Quebec should’ve had a team long ago!
Just my 2 cents: I feel like if the expand to 36 teams (6 divisions of 6 would be cool), they should go to Austin over Houston.
With Houston yes it’s a ‘bigger’ market but it has the other 3 sports covered. With Austin, they don’t have any other of the big 4 to compete with, it could be all nhl.
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Large Canadian ex-pat contingent there from the oil and gas sector
As someone who lived there just Ewwwwww
32 teams are perfect. If we must expand, let’s put one up north. Quebec City or Toronto #2. I know the NHL wants to markets to make more money so Houston/Austin/Kansas City would be preferred.
They’d need to add another team to keep the conferences even. So maybe Quebec too?
No income tax for games played there is probably a nice bonus for them.
Just goes to show: different strokes. You couldn’t pay me an nhl salary to live in the American south. Fucking hell.
Real question, why does Milwaukee not have an NHL team? It’s the only Big 4 sport without a team in Wisconsin and should be a big hockey market… feels like that would make some sense
Rich people live in a different world than the rest of us
Dump of a city
Markam because it be hilarious to see them win a Cup
Interesting that they chose “Scottsdale” over “Phoenix”. Is that a little PTSD? Or, are they just trying to play where they live? Or, are they saying that the only way for hockey to succeed in Arizona is if it’s in Scottsdale?
8 teams x 4 divisions / 2 conferences is perfect. Half make the playoffs. No need to mess with it. Just relocate Columbus and they’ll be fine
No more expansion.
I will never forgive Life for the fact that there is no NHL team in Milwaukee.
Hartford!
32 teams is the perfect amount unless we want to go up to 64, then 128, 256….
The fuck why would anyone want to go to Houston
Just add Houston and Arizona to west and Atlanta and Quebec City to east, it’s all inevitable and then take like a 15 year break from expansion at least
“players want to have more money”
Have any of them been to Houston!?!?
Good to see strong player support for Quebec. Quebec biggest problem is that a team there does not grow the game, at least in the eyes of the NHL.
Hamilton, but Buffalo would never allow it.
I think a 36 team league is coming within 10-15 years. Prime targets for the league would be…
Houston
Phoenix
Atlanta
Kansas City
Back up targets…
Portland
Milwaukee
If desperate…
Quebec City
I will say the Houston Aeros were a cool AHL team, it would be fun if they got revived in the NHL.
If more please halifax for one of them
Houston is the easiest answer and will happen.
I’m not a genius but the 4th largest city in the country should have a team.
🤣 “nhlpaplayerpoll” nice try Huston business moguls. As if a poll would ever dictate where people set up next to make money. “Its anonymous” im sure it wasn’t heavily influenced at all. They’re just setting you up to feel normal about it.
Who puts Houston ahead of this ranking.?!?? Silly silly voters
I stated it in another reply here, but I’ve lived in Houston for the last 25 years and don’t see it ever working. People are mostly clueless about hockey down here. Many think it’s a WWE style event that’s staged lol. There are like 3 good sheets of ice here and one of those is closing down soon. Dallas is obviously light years ahead these days, and I think it would be damn near impossible for Houston to catch up to it. Most people I’ve talked to over the years seem to be just fine with baseball/football/soccer here. It sucks.
Halifax
I mean, it’s a player poll, so I can see why they’d rather visit an additional warm climate a couple of times a year than go to yet another frozen tundra.
What about Detroit? They’ve been clamoring for an NHL team for years, lol.
Quebec should’ve had a team long ago!
Just my 2 cents: I feel like if the expand to 36 teams (6 divisions of 6 would be cool), they should go to Austin over Houston.
With Houston yes it’s a ‘bigger’ market but it has the other 3 sports covered. With Austin, they don’t have any other of the big 4 to compete with, it could be all nhl.
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