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We dont have the infrastructure (proper sized football specific stadiums) to host a World Cup. We can host the 2015 Womens World Cup because of the size of the tournament. Most games are played in Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton. A World Cup should showcase the entire country not just pockets. I would love to see it here but doubt it for 1

2018 or 2022. The CSA is planning on bidding for the 2026 World Cup. That annoucement was made in February. They better start building football specific stadiums with 40,000+ capacity now even to be looked at.

But think of the home-pitch advantage when we play in Tuktoyaktuk!

Do we have tweet embeding in the forum software? If so, what option do I use? I see the twitter button but it appears to be just to link to a twitter account.

They're going to see the operations of the closest NHL team to them. It only makes sense if you want to get into the business.

We all know how this story ends.

With the Coyotes in Sacremento?

Somehow, it's a mark of how crazy this story has become that the mention of Jeremey Roenick being involved with running a hockey team isn't even remarkable.

More of a rare jersey match up. Canucks only wore the skate logo for the first 2 years of the Ave's being in the NHL

Hmm, I wonder if the canucks ever wore that salmon coloured third jersey against the avs.

Was that his first game as a Penguin? Even weirder that he starts out in a throwback.

Yep.

I know two cities that have never been tried that would love NHL hockey.

Actually one was tried 85 years ago.

Hamilton and Halifax.

Halifax is far too small population wise and doesn't have a suitable arena. And do we need another time zone in the NHL?

Is this new? I thought the Stars were one of the sunbelt success stories.

Or is it just a "we only support winners" thing?

To be fair, even in a hockey hotbed like Vancouver, mediocre to awful teams like in the Keenan era in the late 90s had GM Place half full.

By process of elimination, I think we can tell where this is all going to lead to:

1. Seattle doesn't have a hockey-friendly arena, nor is there the public nor political will to build one, so they're out.

2. Quebec is currently railing against the government's attempted strongarming of a financing bill to build their new hockey cathedral, so that $450M pipedream is out, tabernacle.

3. Houston is a potential, but if the owner of the arena isn't interested in NHL hockey, well, that's out.

4. Kansas City doesn't seem to give a rat's, so they're out.

5. Hamilton is out of the equation until Jim Balsillie can invent a mobile operating system to complete with iOS and Android, so they're out.

So as far as I see it, this leaves four potential landing spots for the Coyotes

1. Phoenix, because maybe, MAYBE, MAYBE with strong local ownership and some kind of stability, they can make it sorta kinda work in their own special way.

2. Portland, because they have an NHL-ready arena, a decent support in place for the Winterhawks, and a built-in rivalry with Vancouver and San Jose.

3. Atlantis, because hey, as long as we're dreaming.

4. The moon, because more people have been there than have been to Jobing.com Arena.

Comedy Options 1 and 2: A second team in Toronto sharing the ACC with the Leafs (insert massive relocation fee here), or a second team in Vancouver, because hey, the Pacific Coliseum is totally serviceable and was upgraded for the Olympics.