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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
People keep forgetting the importance of TV markets. Quebec City does absolutely nothing for the NHL in terms of TV market and it's a Habs market on RDS so there will be minimal gains for the next Canadian TV deal. Conversely they lose a large US TV market which likely affects the US deals. I see zero chance they move another US TV market to Canada as they will move to another US TV market.
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I agree with you here. An American market is the primary target. The larger the market the more likely it has to being accepted into the fold. Hence the desire to circle back to Atlanta (#8 TV market). Losing Phoenix (#12) is going to be a bitter pill to swallow, but Houston (#10), Portland (#22), Charlotte (#24), Indianapolis (#25), San Diego (#28), and Kansas City (#30), might suffice. Salt Lake City at #33 make sense as well and is a bigger market than Las Vegas (#42).