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Old 03-08-2017, 09:41 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada View Post
California teams for the most part has been a huge success and more Americans are playing hockey than ever before. I know it's a Canadian past time to bash US expansion but there's been more hits than misses and you can argue the US is right up there with Canada now as a hockey super power which is something you could never say 20 years ago. No sport ever hits a home run with al their expansion teams but the NHL has done a pretty good job overall.
I certainly agree that expansion has been overall good for the NHL but has any major pro sports league had a worse track record for failed expansion franchises than the NHL?
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