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Originally Posted by lvsteven
Believe it or not, expect to see NHL in oklaholma or las Vegas before the peg.
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The NBA relocating to Oklahoma killed any chance of it acquiring an NHL team. To drive this point across, Oklahoma's CHL team actually led all minor league teams in attendance for several years. When they moved up to the AHL, roughly the same time the Seattle Supersonics relocated to Oklahoma City, attendance dropped from 9,500 to just over 4,000 in just 2-3 years.
If a team relcates to another city before Winnipeg, it would definitely be either Quebec, Houston, Seattle (if they build a new arena), Hartford (in talks about building a new arena to attract an NHL team), or Hamilton (if they can get another rich owner to throw a couple of hundred million dollars at the Leafs for territorial rights).