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Originally Posted by valo403
Quebec? A team would obviously succeed in Quebec, but that doesn't mean that moving a team there now would be an economic win for the NHL. I imagine there is a pretty large appetite in the NHL board room to enter any hockey mad market in the most lucrative way possible, which is almost certainly through expansion. Outside of Quebec and Toronto there isn't another market that could legitimately be labelled as "destined to succeed", there are a few unproven markets with serious question marks.
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Oh I agree about the first part. The NHL loses a lot of money in any potential TV deal trading a top 10 TV market in the US for Canada's 7th or 8th biggest market. And after giving away another top 10 market in Atlanta, I don't think they want to be so quick to give another away.