Hockey players are just like everyone else, some guys want to keep moving around, others don't want to leave the city they were brought up in.
I think trying to infer anything else is a mugs game, clearly a crappy city with a crappy team is going to struggle to hold players but a nice city, or a big one like New York or LA is going to be a cool place to be even on a crappy team.
Conversely who the hell would want to live in Detroit, but under Bowman with years of cup contention the city doesn't matter.
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