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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Does Seattle have an AHL team yet? Couldn't they play out of, say, the Tacoma Dome or something? Or, perhaps, Portland?
You could potentially have a mini-division with a team in Calgary, a team in Abbotsford, a team somewhere near Edmonton, and a team in Washington/Oregon.
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Seattle is placing a team in Palm Springs, but will delay it by one season until the arena is completed. For the first year they will place whatever small number of prospects they have with other teams.
The AHL implemented a rule that franchises cannot subsidize travel for visiting teams (i.e. as Abbotsford and St. John's Ice Caps once did). Don't expect any remote, far-flung AHL outposts when things are back to normal.