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Originally Posted by Buff
I heard talk of expansion for a couple of years now, but it has been my wish that instead of re-locating that they would expand and then contract a couple of the troubled teams within a couple of years. I'm happy with only 30 teams, and my wish should be the NHL's command right? Besides, expansion fees bring in mucho money to the NHL so it makes sense that they would want to expand. With the way the salary cap keeps going up they can crunch the numbers to make a business case that the NHL is doing well and can afford to support two more teams.
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I define a losing season as a year where you don't make the playoffs.
16 teams make the playoffs. Right now 14 miss. You add two more teams and you get 16 teams that will miss the playoffs. That is 2 more teams with "losing seasons".
2 more teams that will possibly fire their coach. 2 more fanbases that will be disgruntled that their team didn't make the playoffs, 2 more empty buildings, etc...
Is this about revenue or profit? Because you will add revenue to the NHL with 2 more teams, but overall league wide profit will come down.
The NHL should invest in buying out 2 teams, and going back to 28. Reduce the number of games to 76-80, and end the season by the end of May.
This is getting ridiculous. 32 teams.
