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Originally Posted by Goodlad
I know this probably seems off the wall, and entirely biased, but after seeing the AHL league map I feel that there is a huge market in the western-American states that is untapped right now. I know that during the lockout myself and many of my friends were desperate for live hockey. The best we could do was ECHL, and we ate it up like candy, even traveling several hundred kilometers (you guys do km, right?) to go see a competitive hockey game. If we could establish a few teams out here I feel they would be successful. I mean, c'mon.....what's their competition?
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Problem is rhat the ECHL is quite well established in a lot of those markets, and most of them want nothing to do with the AHL. Costs in the ECHL are significantly less, but revenues are very similar.