Wings

Is Melky Cabrera available for weekend games?

Return of the Zephyrs hopefully or something classic. Not Baby Cakes, not ThunderGators, not CyberBeavers.

Looks like the Baby Cakes name might stay with the new double A team.

Got to laugh at the last sentence in that artice: ,so there's still hope.

5 to 7 years and if they do move it won't be to Quebec.

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There's probably a 0% chance Qatar gets stripped of hosting. How unfortunate.

It's still shameful that Qatar is hosting in 2022. Hopefully we get to see Qatar lose all their matches 10-0.

He's a grower of the game. He helped grow the bank accounts of billionaire owners into gagillionaire owners ?

With Paul Allen becoming disinterested in owning his sports teams and stopping to block other leagues from coming here, you might see Portland finally open up to other sports. NFL most likely never, MLB is still a long way off even what others might say. NHL is the only possibility right now. Calgary & Arizona to Portland & Houston. You pick which one goes where.

It's the NHL, so Houston is inevitable. Bettman finally gives in and the Coyotes relocate there in time for the 2019-20 season.

Or if this downtown arena Melnyk wants in Ottawa falls through, maybe the Sens go to Quebec City. Who knows what that crackpot Melnyk is thinking from minute to minute anyways.

Yeah. 100 years from now we'll all be dead and Quebec City still won't have a team.

Sort of the Grand Canyon of the east

Any chance Conference USA or the Sun Belt would reconsider taking them? Is it just the religious aspect?

Since Pacific left for the WCC, UC Davis is the only NorCal school in the Big West.

A somewhat alternate NHL timeline: 1991: San Jose (expansion) 1992: Tampa Bay (expansion) 1993: Anaheim (expansion) & Dallas (relocation from Minnesota) 1995: Colorado (relocation from Quebec) 1996: Houston (relocation from Winnipeg) 1997: Nashville (relocation from Hartford) 2000: Columbus (expansion) & Minnesota (expansion) 2012: Winnipeg (expansion) 2015: Quebec (expansion) Eastern Conference Atlantic: New Jersey, N.Y. Islanders, N.Y. Rangers, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Washington Northeast: Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto Western Conference Central: Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Minnesota, Nashville, St. Louis, Winnipeg Pacific: Anaheim, Calgary, Colorado, Edmonton, Los Angeles, San Jose, Vancouver

Las Vegas Golden Gnats

Or the ghost of Barry Ackerley shows up to rattle some chains.

Johnny Rockets is the worst. Had a chicken sandwich that was so rubbery. Fries sucked too. It was the one at the Sun Valley Mall in Concord when I lived in the Bay Area.

-Seattle expansion -Arizona to Houston -Carolina to Quebec City

-Calgary stays -Seattle expansion -Arizona to Houston -Carolina to Quebec City Flip flop Quebec & Columbus with Florida & Tampa Bay. Houston goes to the Central while Seattle fits right in the Pacific. Rename the Metropolitan the Atlantic and we go back to having a Northeast division. Seed the playoffs 1 through 8 in each conference by record. None of this divisional, top 3, wildcard nonsense.

An OITGDNHL moment: relocate the Carolina Hurricanes to Houston and have them keep the nickname not realizing how insensitive that would be.

After looking over all the negative variables and realizing this is the NHL were talking about I've come to the conclusion that Houston is a damn lock to get a team if Les sells the Rockets. OITGDNHL.