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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I think the only way Toronto gets a second team is if the league agrees to let MLSE buy one. They already have a perfectly good arena, and they could pay Buffalo $100 MM to keep quiet. Add $450 MM to buy a crappy low-attendance team and pay the league a $200 MM bribe relocation fee. Thats $750 MM total and MLSE would have a new asset worth over a billion. Could keep their existing arena totally full, and they'd have a cheaper entry level product to sell to overflow fans.
I'm honestly surprised the NHLPA isn't pushing for this. Moving a team like Carolina/Florida/Arizona etc to Toronto would probably double its revenue, and they get half. It also makes sense to do it before the next Canadian TV deal. Adding another Toronto team probably increases the Canadian national TV deal, and subtracting a crappy sunbelt US team doesn't move the needle in the US at all.
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If it was that easy we would have a team here in Quebec city by now.
Lots of people here have made attempts at buying low attendance teams and it never works.