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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Why would you be concerned about Quebec City? If Winnipeg can support a team Quebec City should be able to handle it fine. During their time in the NHL they were consistently above 95% capacity. Their worst year of attendance was 1991-92 when they hit 90%. My concerns about Quebec City would be attracting and retaining players. But there are only so many NHL jobs paying millions of dollars a year, so I think they would be fine in that regard as well. No worse than any Canadian team.
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Population, proximity to Montreal, lack of corporate support, previous failure.
Winnipeg is 750K (100K more if you count the surrounding area) and it has a fair number of large corporations headed from there. Cargill, Monsanto, Boeing Canada, Old Dutch, Domo, Princess Auto...
Quebec has 550K. It'd easily be the smallest population centre in the league. And I can't think of a single notable company head officed there.