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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
This is gonna be the nicest AHL arena ever when they eventually get a team. But unless whoever wants to bring a team there is willing to get hammered, and I mean hammered, in a relocation or expansion fee, then this is a pipe dream. Toronto and Buffalo will not let another team come into the area to dilute the market. The Leafs aren't giving up the monopoly either.
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I think they would be far enough away from Buffalo that they would have no say.
As for the Leafs, I am not sure their claim would stand up if challenged. Don't forget, the Leafs at one time tried to block Vancouver from getting a team as it was part of their territory. Exclusive territories are created by the parameters of the time. The demographics of Ontario have changed a lot since the Leafs were given all of Southern Ontario. They don't even have the potential to tap the whole market anymore.