With Coyotes Moved, No Franchises Appear to be in Any Danger of Relocation

The THG franchise has moved twice since the channel's existence!

As a lifelong Panthers fan born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, the surge in popularity and relevance for the franchise in South Florida has been a dream come true. A lot of us suffered through some garbage management/ownership but Viola put his money where his mouth is and has made the franchise a juggernaut down here. Go Cats!!

I still feel like Detroit missed an opportunity not calling it Little Caesars Colosseum.

Anaheim isn’t getting a new stadium anytime soon. The owners are upgrading it every year and they just starting building the “OC Vibe” which is all around the arena and between them and angels stadium and it is a whole entertainment district/park and apartments etc.

Tampa is truly a hockey town now. They are the only Tampa team located in downtown. Bucs are 15 mins outside downtown and the rays are in a completely different city.

I'm so happy that the Florida retraction talk has gone away. I would be extremely sad to lose my team.

MSG has a “special permit” to operate directly above NYC’s busiest travels hubs in Penn Station for another 5 years (till 2028). NYC is putting a lot of pressure on Dolan to relocate the building. Not saying the Rangers are in jeopardy of leaving, but the city really wants a new Madison Square Garden location. Fun fact: Today’s Madison Square Garden is actually the fourth building/location with the name “Madison Square Garden.”

I get that there's so much money involved that every arena now (except one) has to have a corporate name, but I miss the days when arenas had character and were named after people and places. It feels like a lot of the humanity has been stripped out of them, but I understand why that had to happen. Someone has to help pay for these big arenas now and they want their name on it for advertising purposes. It's why I applaud whoever actually owns MSG for keeping the name in tact and also for not tearing iy down in the last 30 years like a lot of places and just building a newer arena in its place. I was never a Habs or Leafs fan, but it bothered me when they played their final games in Maple Leaf Gardens and The Forum. There was history there.

I'm a Sabres fan and I was shocked at our attendance too. I thought it'd be 13,000 at the MAX after the shitshow this season, not almost 16,000

The Jets aren't going anywhere as long as David Thomson (Canada's wealthiest person) is part of the True North ownership group.

Hockey is the greatest sport in the world. Give people a reason to go and skilled team run by competent management, and they'll fall in love with it too. I'm looking forward to a return to Atlanta, for all the (legitimate) criticisms directed at Bettman, he seems to understand what it take now to spread the sport.

the sharks are slowly working on "sharking out" the SAP Center. This last season they had a shark-themed red line that had shark fins on it. agreed it needs more teal. theyve added a lot of digital signage throughout the arena that has teal on screen, but more elements of the building could be teal. its mostly gray/silver/white. seats are dark gray/black and light gray/black. love the sharks tank though, can only see it through my teal colored lenses.

I forgot how old the Bell Center is, seems like only yesterday the Habs were moving in.

People don’t understand the Utah market. There are over 2.5 million people in the SLC/Ogden/Provo area. It’s not Los Angeles, but they’ll do fine.

Note that MSG is the only NHL arena that doesn't have a sponsor.

While being the arena with most seats, Bell Centre’s template is rather small, corridors are small. Habs have announced recently some refurbishments in premium sections. They also changing the scoreboard this summer. Last thing, Molson family owns a lot of real estate around the arena and there are some plans to develop further the area around Bell Centre.

As someone who lives in Anaheim area, Anaheim around the Honda Center is actually being enhanced and the arena actually had alot of upgrades..also ppl doesn't know this but the Honda Center or at the time Anaheim Arena was built in a way that modifications and upgrades for modern era. The Honda Center actually be expanding before the their new lease starts.

the vegas expansion was absolutely huge for the nhl in my opinion. they’ve never been bad, have already won a cup and have multiple WCF appearances including the cup loss in ‘18, and they are already at 1.1 B and tmobile is packed. it led to seattle getting their franchise and now utah is next up making 2 teams following in vegas’ footsteps in that west coast area.

great job overall covering every franchise, arena, attendance, and future of each. very exciting time to be a hockey fan!!

As an #NHLJets fan, and STH, words like this sicken me... the little guy like me in Winnipeg or the province are doing everything we can to keep this team here... but 15% corporate support means the businesses in the area are cheapening out and not carrying their load (as opposed to places like Edmonton where there is up to 45% corporate support). We don't have unlimited sources of money in Wpg and are way overdue for an influx of funds from the local corporations/people with large amounts of money. The little guy (85% of the STH) have done what we could to support our NHL team and the rest is up to corporate.