HawksFan28
Rejoint: déc. 2016
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Green Bay? LOL.... Green Bay will NEVER have a major professional hockey, baseball or basketball team. Has anyone been to Green Bay? it has a population of about 100,000 people... It doesn't have the economics to really support any professional franchise.. They have the Packers because the city collectively owns the Packers so that is a unique situation..
IMO, a city has to have a population of at least 5 million combined between the city and metro area (within a 40 mile radius of the city) to even explore the possibility of a professional sports franchise.
Green Bay literally sits in the middle of nowhere.
Houston and Seattle are good locations... OKC is way too small and it's not a hockey market at all.
Quebec City just doesn't have the population to support an NHL franchise with 500,000 people.... I mean you're walking on eggshells as far as revenue... The problems with places like Quebec city is that they don't have the population and hockey fans are already fans of other teams, so drumming up support for a new team will be difficult. Then of course you will have arena issues, investor issues and it's a long process to even consider....
Houston tho has a population of 2.3 million in the city and 6.5 million people in the metro area. Seattle has a population of only 700,000 BUT it has a metro population of almost 4,000,000.
I mean after teams are put in Seattle and Houston - I think the US will be tapped out on cities to put NHL franchises..... Some people say Kansas City, but like Oklahoma City it's just not a hockey market. And I don't see the NHL going back to Atlanta for at least 20 years. I mean Miami would have a team before Atlanta .... IMO, after Seattle and Houston if the NHL wants to continue to expand the league Miami would be the next choice..