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Originally Posted by burnitdown
Atlanta is the only team that relocated in recent times. The examples of Hartford, QC, and Winnipeg are from 20-25 years ago when there was a big push to move teams to southern USA. That didn't exactly go as planned so now teams are generally looking back north (Winnipeg, Seattle, Quebec, etc.).
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Predators to Hamilton was thoroughly squashed.
Coyotes to Hamilton was a "done-deal" that required the NHL to go to courts to stop it.
Penguins to anywhere had a deal in place that the team could be relocated if an arena deal did not go through prior to Lemieux deciding to keep the team and the arena being funded.
These all happened in the last decade.
Winnipeg, Seattle and Quebec have something in common with those southern states though....available arenas.
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Originally Posted by burnitdown
The NYI just approved a privately funded arena. Is the NHL going to push them out now??
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Don't be absurd. If a team is willing to locate or construct a privately funded arena, that's on them and everyone is happy. But when the NHL has been 'given' literal billions of public funds for their arenas, they are going to continue to support teams that fight for public funding and support municipalities that have contributed public money (so others will continue to do so).
It's not Gary Bettman going in front of the cameras to fight against Nenshi and Calgary for his own personal satisfaction, it's as the face of the NHL ownership group who as a whole support his argument.