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Originally Posted by christoph186
Really makes you wonder why they wouldn't want to move the team to a Canadian market where they could actually make some money...
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It isn't the market, it's the building.
Here's an example I read about recently: The Islanders will get more money from their share of luxury suites at the Barclays Center than their entire gate revenue in Nassau. In fact, it isn't even close. If they sold out every seat for every game in Nassau, it would still be less money than the suites in Brooklyn.
The Panthers could move up to Quebec, sell out the Colisée Pepsi every game, and lose money faster than they did in Florida.
When the Quebecor Arena opens in 2015, Quebec City will back on the map as a possible NHL market. Until then, every NHL-calibre arena in Canada (plus the MTS Centre, which isn't quite) already has an NHL team.