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Old 08-15-2014, 04:27 PM   #306
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Originally Posted by albertGQ View Post
Do you have inside info? I would think its way too late for an expansion team to start 2015-2016. I think the earliest would be 2016-2017?
Looking at the last couple rounds of NHL expansion: the Wild, Preds, Blue Jackets, Thrashers, and Sharks were all announced at least the summer before they began to play (in some cases 3 years before). Based on that precedent we should be ok, although the Jets were relocated within a span of a couple months so you never know...
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