{"id":150037,"date":"2025-08-06T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/150037\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:02:09","slug":"plan-for-the-next-two-nhl-expansion-teams-leaked-by-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/150037\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan For the Next Two NHL Expansion Teams Leaked by Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to issue an edict that says, if you want an expansion team, file your application by this date. I think the most important things at 10,000 feet in expansion are ownership &#8230; market, arena and what does it do to make the league stronger, improve our footprint?<\/p>\n<p>If somebody can check those four boxes and wants to do a deep dive, then I&#8217;ll take it to the owners and we&#8217;ll consider it. I&#8217;m not pressuring anybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not going to issue an edict that says, if you want an expansion team, file your application&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[295,5,7211,4,23392,7011,23393,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-150037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-gary-bettman","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-john-shannon","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-atlanta","13":"tag-nhl-expansion","14":"tag-nhl-houston","15":"tag-nhl-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114979835293192663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}