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Old 01-30-2019, 01:04 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by getbak View Post

The more urgent question for the WHL right now is what's going to happen in Seattle. Can the T-Birds and Silvertips both survive the arrival of the NHL? Will the NHL team want to put its AHL affiliate in the area, and displace one of the WHL teams to do it?
That is a very legitimate concern. I'm not sure there is an appetite big enough for NHL plus two WHL teams in a traditionally non hockey market. And then the problem for the league would be where to put those two (or one) teams - the potential is probably pretty limited in the US and I would think the preference would be to keep them south of the border for divisional reasons.
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