TorinK92

Apparently a reporter named Louis Jean asked Bill Daly if Quebec City was STILL a possible location for the coyotes, and he said yes. *long sigh*

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Well, I'm glad that there are millionaires and other well-to-do folks in the city, but that raises a new question. If there really is some magically as-yet unrealized passion for hockey in the desert, why can't a couple dozen/hundred/however many of these Glendale millionaires buy the team off the NHL? Do they not believe it can magically make money? Or are they all too smart for that, seeing how the city has thrown good money after bad all these years?

Because there isn't, they can't, and yes, they are.

Is there a date in which it passes will keep the Coyotes in Phoenix next year (instead of moving to Seattle or Quebec City).

Yes, Gary Bettman's birthday

I'm thrilled that Glendale has apparently wised up and this may be it for the Coyotes. I'm much less thrilled about them setting up a slapdash team in Seattle , rushing jersey/logos which will make the OKC Thunder's logo look like a painstaking design, and playing their games in a local ice rink.

Whose to say they aren't currently done/in the works?

Well, the Thunders' set should have been long finished, too, but instead they put it together in like a week. Besides, having a new identity ready would take foresight and a level of competence which the NHL really doesn't have.

50 bucks says that they have a conflict with the Canucks in some way.

Serious note... Are coyotes in Seattle/Washington?

yes, so sadly they might keep the name

Quebec (Lévis) : 765,706

Green Bay Metro Area: 311,098

*I realize that the Packers have all of Wisconsin (6 million) behind them, but the Quebec City NHL team would have half of Quebec Province (and probably a sizeable portion of the Maritimes) on its side. That's at least 4 million potential viewers, which is enough of a market for an NHL team. Yes, there is the issue of exchange rates and corporate sponsorship, blah, blah - but most of the profitable teams in the NHL are north of the Canada-US border.

But the commissioner/president of the NHL probably LIKES the US.

Bettman probably wouldn't but a team in Moose Jaw if it struck tritanium infused diamonds and it's population boomed to 15 million.

In how many American markets with 3+ "top four+" teams (even the hockey hotbeds) does the NHL team have a legit claim in being #1 or #2?

I can only really come up with Detroit.

Denver could but that would only be "who's the best right now other than the Broncos", and not an "always" case.

If they were to get an NBA team I could make a case for Pittsburgh and even that is only because the Pirates have been so awful for two decades now (I know they're good this year). Historically though, the Pirates would still trump the Pens.

Any other 3-big 4 cities, were they to acquire the missing one however, I don't think it would happen in.

You wouldn't think it, but in Detroit its Lions #1 and what ever team is doing better at the time for #2

That seems rather ironic, doesn't it?

Ok Bettman, let me just wipe that need for approval in the US off your face...

I'll be honest, I haven't really been keeping up with all of the specifics in this situation, but what's the problem with Kansas City exactly?

AHL first, then NHL.

CHL first, then ECHL, Narnia League, AHL then and only then, NHL

heh, those organizations could learn something from the sens.

We are THAT desperate to a point that we tell other people from other cities NOT to come.

But yeah, I can see that they yotes would have to try to get people from across the country to fill their seats.