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glen a richter wrote:Newark may be in New Jersey but its a stones throw from NYC, as is Nassau County. While Long Island is not part of the city its close enough for us to attempt competing with NYC culture, so proximity wise you can fairly say the geographic area does "support" 3 teams
Don't disagreep-my point is that if you're considering all that area, you have to consider the population of LI and northern Jersey-it expands the potential fanbase considerably. That catchment area has more population than all but 6/7 states.
glen a richter wrote:If I was in favor of expanding the league, which I'm most certainly not, I'd push to right some wrongs first. That means moving (not expanding) teams out of the south. Phoenix can move to Quebec City instead of expanding there, Florida can move to Hamilton instead of expanding there. Carolina can move back to Hartford, Tampa Bay can move to Saskatoon, Nashville can move to Seattle and Dallas can move to Kansas City. Then we can talk about what to do with possibly expanding to some colder climate markets like Indianapolis or even Southern Alaska though I'm sure the travel would be hell.
In a perfect world...but moving basket-case, fanless PHX and FLA to QC and...somewhere else-KC, Seattle, wherever-that shouldn't be such a problem.

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glen a richter wrote:
JesusNEVERexisted wrote:I agree it's not a great idea. They have be careful of over saturation .

Quebec City and Seattle deserve teams but not 2 teams in Toronto or 2 teams in Minnesota.
2 teams in Minnesota? Las Vegas, Minnesota? You suck at geography too.
WRONG! You can't read retard! They have talked about adding another team in the Toronto area and another team in Minnesota so I said no to that!
There's nothing in the article about a second team in Minnesota, dude. So what are you talking about?
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JesusNEVERexisted wrote:
glen a richter wrote:
JesusNEVERexisted wrote:I agree it's not a great idea. They have be careful of over saturation .

Quebec City and Seattle deserve teams but not 2 teams in Toronto or 2 teams in Minnesota.
2 teams in Minnesota? Las Vegas, Minnesota? You suck at geography too.
WRONG! You can't read retard! They have talked about adding another team in the Toronto area and another team in Minnesota so I said no to that!
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1) I feel like all the hockey fans in Seattle are already Canucks fans
2) I feel like all the hockey fans in Toronto are already Maple Leafs fans
3) Las Vegas doesn't have hockey fans
4) Quebec? I'm okay with that.
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STLADOGG wrote:
JesusNEVERexisted wrote:
glen a richter wrote:
JesusNEVERexisted wrote:I agree it's not a great idea. They have be careful of over saturation .

Quebec City and Seattle deserve teams but not 2 teams in Toronto or 2 teams in Minnesota.
2 teams in Minnesota? Las Vegas, Minnesota? You suck at geography too.
WRONG! You can't read retard! They have talked about adding another team in the Toronto area and another team in Minnesota so I said no to that!
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Jne you flipping imbecile, the article said they were scoping out Target Field for an outdoor game, not a second team in Minnesota. Did you go to school, stupid?
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What's the over/under on Jesus making another comment in this thread?
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Toasted Oates wrote:What's the over/under on Jesus making another comment in this thread?
God only knows...
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Toasted Oates wrote:What's the over/under on Jesus making another comment in this thread?
Tough one, for him to rise again and go onto the internet may be a far fetched idea, but if he did go online I guarantee this would be his first site to log into.
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Toasted Oates wrote:What's the over/under on Jesus making another comment in this thread?
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Jesus wrote:
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Jesus wrote:
Toasted Oates wrote:What's the over/under on Jesus making another comment in this thread?
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Jesus wrote:
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Someone say my name?
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I'll try to find the article, but I read something from fivethirtyeight a little while ago that broke down how many fans a team needs to have to be profitable. Long story short, a team needs 300-400K fans to be profitable.

-Maple Leafs have 5mil fans. If 20% supported an expansion team (dunno if that's realistic or not especially with that fanbase), they'd have more fans than the Blackhawks and could easily support an expansion team.
-Vegas has an estimated 91K NHL fans.
-Seattle has more, but not the requisite 300K.
-Quebec (as well as a number of other Canadian cities) have enough.
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ComradeT wrote:
JesusNEVERexisted wrote:
glen a richter wrote:
JesusNEVERexisted wrote:I agree it's not a great idea. They have be careful of over saturation .

Quebec City and Seattle deserve teams but not 2 teams in Toronto or 2 teams in Minnesota.
2 teams in Minnesota? Las Vegas, Minnesota? You suck at geography too.
WRONG! You can't read retard! They have talked about adding another team in the Toronto area and another team in Minnesota so I said no to that!
There's nothing in the article about a second team in Minnesota, dude. So what are you talking about?
The article says the NHL "going back to Minnesota" so I just misread it and thought they meant putting another NHL team in Minnesota. However over the years I have read articles on how Minnesota could support 2 NHL teams if strategically placed. Once I heard Minny native Neal Broten say Minnesota could support 2 NHL teams. I bet Backes would agree.

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JesusNEVERexisted wrote:
ComradeT wrote:
JesusNEVERexisted wrote:
glen a richter wrote:
JesusNEVERexisted wrote:I agree it's not a great idea. They have be careful of over saturation .

Quebec City and Seattle deserve teams but not 2 teams in Toronto or 2 teams in Minnesota.
2 teams in Minnesota? Las Vegas, Minnesota? You suck at geography too.
WRONG! You can't read retard! They have talked about adding another team in the Toronto area and another team in Minnesota so I said no to that!
There's nothing in the article about a second team in Minnesota, dude. So what are you talking about?
The article says the NHL "going back to Minnesota" so I just misread it and thought they meant putting another NHL team in Minnesota. However over the years I have read articles on how Minnesota could support 2 NHL teams if strategically placed. Once I heard Minny native Neal Broten say Minnesota could support 2 NHL teams. I bet Backes would agree.
I bet Jesus wouldn't agree.
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