NHL Expansion to Southern Cities

NHL expands to southern cities As the population of southern states continues to increase, NHL has shifted the team to the southern major cities. In order to increase profit and popularity, NHL has increased the number of league teams and has entered the southern city which had never had a hockey team before. The problem is that hockey is less popular in the south than in the north. This expansion in the south brought about a large economic loss and a very low attendance rate for the southern team.

Just a few years ago, Quebec City seems to have matured the NHL expansion franchise. It is a small market, but the new NHL team has an enthusiastic fan base on behalf of the transition to Denver in 1995, a contemporary stage in the form of a video tron ​​center. The Video Tron Center opened in 2015 to bring NHL back to Quebec City. And expanded bidding led by Quebec is seen as a way to bring the team to the venue. NHL plans to bid on the 31st and 32nd teams in Quebec City and Las Vegas, but announced the selection of Las Vegas in June 2016 and postponed the bid to Quebec City. Since then, the discussion at the NHL team in Quebec City has settled down, and Seattle is now approaching the expansion of the bidding scale.

Last summer, due to the expansion of NHL, Las Vegas joined the list, after which Winnipeg returned to the team. There are rumors that other cities such as Seattle and Toronto may (again) get a new NHL franchise. Of course, Quebec City is always in operation, but unfortunately it still needs to be seen from an economic point of view, the Canadian dollar and the Quebec market have not increased since the 1990s. Just for two reasons (and the fact that Bettman hates Canada ... just a joke ... maybe ...) maybe, NHL is hesitant to return to Quebec City.

Expansion of the franchise in Seattle can solve the NHL problem that Quebec City can not solve in order to resolve the geographical imbalance between the eastern and western meetings. NHL mentioned the reasons why Quebec City was postponed in 2016 and geographical imbalance. Another problem is concern about the Canadian dollar.

If junior hockey can attract so many people in Quebec, imagine what the NHL team can paint. With that in mind, Quebec, who led the expansion of Quebec City's franchise group, formally submitted a $ 500 million NHL extension application in July 2015, which brought hope to the revival of Nordics . NHL accepted the application pleasantly, but I felt that I never took seriously from the beginning. Unfortunately, NHL does not seem to have a strong desire to take the team to the capital of Quebec. NHL has long focused on expanding the US and developing games in new traditional markets. That is why they are determined to team up in Arizona. There are two teams in Florida, and there are teams in Nashville, Carolina and Columbus.