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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Honestly, I have zero understanding of Bettman's fixation on developing Arizona hockey market...
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It seems to me more like a fixation on keeping all the teams in their current locations until the NHL could squeeze out the last dollar in expansion money. If you want to know why the Coyotes are still in Glendale, I can give you 500 million reasons from Las Vegas and 650 million from Seattle. The other 30 owners wouldn't have seen that money if existing franchises were up for relocation.
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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
The Ravens are considered an expansion team made up of former Browns, while the current Browns are a continuation of the original franchise. No idea why the NHL hasn’t done the same for the Jets.
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That deal was made the minute the original Browns left Cleveland. The original Jets moved to Arizona in 1996. The Thrashers were established in 1997, and did not move to Winnipeg until 2011. You can't very well pretend that the new Jets are a continuation of the old Jets when both franchises played side by side in the league for 14 years in other locations.