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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
Money. In the long term, they can make more money getting expansion fees in markets like Quebec, Toronto(Markham), Seattle, Hamilton etc, than moving existing franchises into those markets. They'll fight to the end to keep struggling teams in their markets just long enough, for when Quebec, Markham, and Seattle have their new arenas. They then collect 750-900 million in expansion fees and then fold 3 teams. 900 million is a lot more than three 70 million relocation fees.
In the case of Phoenix, Glendale is making it easy on the NHL to continue to bide time.
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If the NHL prevented a sale and relocation on one hand while taking expansion fees on the other with an eye to folding three teams they'd find themselves up to their eyeballs in lawsuits.