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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
but can the US support 28-30 NHL teams? I don't think they can
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Why?
People don’t drive multiple hours to go watch a NHL game (well, I bet 99.9999% don’t anyway). People in Houston aren’t driving to Dallas, Salt Lake City driving to Denver, or Portland driving to Seattle. There’s a ton of markets to go exploit and make money from. I don’t really get the reticence to avoid expansion or growth personally (from an ownership perspective) other than the point that every market you expand into is one less market you can threaten taxpayers with relocation to fund new arenas.
Further, I think watering down the talent actually makes the product better (more mistakes leads to more exciting hockey).