Potential cities for NHL expansion

Stan Kroenke said that he wants a NHL team in San Diego since they are going to be building a fresh state of the art stadium.

Wisconsin needs a team so Minnesota can build a rivalry

Bring back the Hartford Whalers. Their merch still sells a lot. They had a loyal following and the best logo in NHL history.

Wow ..no Hartford?

A team in Hawai would be cool the Honolulu Vulcanos;).

Once again it wasn't the fans that hurt hockey in Atlanta it was horrible ownership both times. Atlanta will get an expansion team as far as NC having two teams no chance in hell even though most people still thank the Hurricanes play in Charlotte rather than Raleigh

If you were going to Omaha, the Demigarch WWarren Buffett would have to pay for it, and he's such a cheapskate that I think it's a nonstarter.

Gary Bettman has 32 bosses, and 7 of those bosses are Canadian base, and 42% of all NHL players are Canadian… if Bettman was anti-Canadian, he would have been fired decades ago. One forgets Bettman brought revenue sharing when the Canadian dollar was weak, and Edmonton and Ottawa failed to break even. Edmonton contemplated relocation. Gary Bettman is paid to be the scapegoat of the 32 owners who control the league and Gary Bettman. So Quebec City doesn't have a team for 2 reasons… the owners didn't think Quebec City brought enough to the league in new money and would be financially weak. Winnipeg is losing money with a top team, a tiny arena with 2500 empty seats and one of the wealthy Canadian billionaires as the owner. The second reason is that no legitimate owners are willing to invest long-term. Quebecor has backed off their interest, and the owner is a well-publicized separatist. This doesn't help the image of the other 6 Canadian owners and infringes on Montreal's profits. Right now, no one has shown interest in a team in Quebec City who could afford a team. As for the minor league team selling out every game... They don’t. The Quebec City Ramparts sell only 9000 tickets a game in a 17,000-seat arena, and the tickets are worth $19 a ticket, not $100 a ticket for an NHL game. One needs to sell 41 games at $100 a seat every season, season after season, and not enough people from outside Quebec City can travel to Quebec City on weekdays in Quebec Winters for 2/3 of the NHL games. A round trip from Montreal would be 6 hours, and how many fans would drive 6 hours on a weekday for 28 NHL weekday games? Quebec City is too small, not rich enough, and too isolated (Hamilton has Toronto minutes away), and no deep-pocket owners willing to invest long-term (short-term fans will eat it up ... long-term???) PLUS, Quebec City already buys NHL TV packages, goes to NHL games and buys NHL merchandise, so the NHL makes money off of Quebec City without risking anything.

Houston is not the 4th largest media market. They are the 4th largest city by population. The most recent DMA market rankings had Houston 7th for media market size. Just FYI.

Portland Timbers MLS

SASKATOON CARIBOU AND MONTERREY EAGLES.

40 NHL TEAMS BY 2040. 10 TEAMS IN CANADA. OR 9 TEAMS AND 1 IN MEXICO. LIKE THE MONTERREY EAGLES.

There will be no new Canadian teams until Bettman is gone.

Portland Oregon would be sick

We need the WHA back Hartford Milwaukee Indianapolis Houston Cleveland Cincinnati Quebec City Hamilton Saskatoon Toronto Birmingham San Diego hockey gets stale when it has no competition we need a rival league Hockey was exciting in the 70's when MR Hockey said "it was a good league" players who don't get a chance get a chance. At the end of the WHA they where on par with the NHL. Ignoring these markets are just to there own detriment .

What if one new team is in Saskatoon & another in Monterrey, Mexico with a big ski resort in the only Latin American IIHF country (Arizona native Auston Matthews' heritage) with a traditional hockey-like game pelota purépecha & is only an 8 & 9 hour drive from Houston & Dallas respectively?

Bettman Mention Cincinnati watch they get an NHL team

Cleveland might be an option

Bettman dgaf about Canadian teams. He wants Arizona, Atlanta, Houston, and more western US teams possibly Portland and Omaha.

if they are going to add 4 more teams it should be Milwaukee, Portland, Quebec City, maybe Indianapolis or Hartford. Keep the teams in established hockey markets.