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Forum: Other Leagues26 mars 2023 à 9 h 17
Sujet: C.H.A.
I made up a fictional league that I call the Canadian Hockey Association (C.H.A.), and its purpose was to be for the backdrop of the premise of a TV show that sees the league expand to another obscure location (I was thinking possibly Ecum Secum for the Ecum Secum Demons) and the show would focus on the GM of that team, going through all the trials and tribulations of an expansion team and ensuing trades, signings, drafts etc. It should be noted that since the premise is very fictional, all practicality and realism surrounding whether the fact any of these places would even get a professional hockey team goes out the window. For the comedy show I would hope it would be, I thought it was only fair for teams to exist in unrealistic places and have names that rhyme (i.e. Lethbridge Fridges), sound dumb (i.e. Halifax Hooligans) or are loose references to things (i.e. Calgary Old Men is a loose reference to the actor Gary Oldman). I'm just an idea guy, so the likelihood of this actually getting life on some network is pretty non-existent, but I just thought I'd share these team names I made for fun.

Western Conference
1. Calgary Old Men
2. Churchill Winston’s
3. Edmonton Angels
4. Flin Flon Flip Flops
5. Fort McMurray Fury
6. Hudson Bay Manta Rays
7. Lethbridge Fridges
8. Nunavut Ice Folk
9. Prince George Gophers
10. Prince Rupert Rabbits
11. Regina Rascals
12. Saskatoon Sasquatches
13. Vancouver Van Covers
14. Whitehorse Stallions
15. Winnipeg Legged Pirates
16. Yellowknife Banana Blades

Eastern Conference
1. Cape Breton Vegetable Crackers
2. Fredericton Freddies
3. Goose Bay Geese
4. Halifax Hooligans
5. Hamilton Federalists
6. Iqaluit Non-Sequiturs
7. Labrador Hounds
8. London Bridges
9. Montreal Malignants
10. Newfoundland Eurekas
11. Ottawa Otters
12. Quebec City Electricity
13. Sherbrooke Riverfolk
14. St. John’s Johnnies
15. Thunder Bay Thunder
16. Toronto Broncos
Forum: Other Leagues2 mai 2023 à 14 h 30
Sujet: If the NHL expands to Europe
European Hockey Association
New League with economics and level of play between AHL and NHL to replace the void of the KHL.

Player salaries would be minimum of € 100k. Team salary cap of € 28,000,000 and max salary of € 5,550,000 per player.

Two way contracts would work between the NHL and EHA just like with NHL-AHL. None of the EHA teams would be "affiliated" with an NHL team; but they can get loaned players for development purposes or sign their own players to direct contracts. Basically they would be just like the Chicago Wolves are going to be.

This would entice European born players to stay closer to home; and vice-versa with North American players displaced by European players in the AHL.

All in-game rules and roster construction would be the same as NHL (just with different figures as listed above).

The future goal would be convert the arenas to NHL size arenas so European players, coaches, and executives can develop for the NHL game.

No rules about the # of foreign born players or % of in-country nationals on the team (as the current Euro leagues often do).

Minimum arena size would be 12,500 for the economics to work.

8 cities to start the league would be chosen with future expansion based on success.

Cities/metro areas are chosen based on economy, population, arena availability, hockey market size. Local hockey talent is not an important factor just "market size" for fans/sponsorships/TV media. Think LA Kings, Dallas Stars, Nashville Predators, mixed in with Toronto, Minnesota, Boston, Montreal type markets; but not places like Quebec or Halifax where the economics make it really hard to compete financially against bigger markets.

<strong>Original Cities:</strong>
Stockholm, Sweden
Helsinki, Finland (if arena ownership gets resolved: play temporarily in Tampere until this is done).
Cologne, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Mannheim, Germany
Copenhagen, Denmark (with Malmo, Sweden as co-host)
Zurich, Switzerland
Prague, Czechia

<strong>Guaranteed Expansion targets:</strong>
London, England (O2 Arena)
Paris, France (Accor Arena)
Vienna, Austria (new ice arena expected 2025-26); (paired with Bratislava, Slovakia as co-host)
Milan, Italy (new ice arena expected for 2026: Olympics)

<strong>Strong Expansion targets:</strong>
Munich, Germany (new ice arena expected 2024)
Gothenburg, Sweden
Oslo, Norway (if <a href="https://www.iihf.com/en/news/39205/three_applicants_for_2027" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Telenor Arena conversion</a> is completed by 2027)

<strong>Possible Expansion targets:</strong>
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Brussels, Belgium
Glasgow, Scotland
Hamburg, Germany
Zagreb, Croatia
Bern, Switzerland (small immediate market but very large economy and hockey market)
Tampere, Finland (small market/economy but very large hockey base).

<strong>Fringe Targets:</strong>
Riga, Latvia
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Manchester, England
Turin, Italy
Krakow, Poland
Lodz, Poland
Katowice, Poland
Budapest, Hungary
Sheffield, England
Nottingham, England
Kaunas, Lithuania

<strong>Unavailable Expansion Targets:</strong>
Moscow, Russia
St. Petersburg, Russia
Minsk, Belarus
Kiev, Ukraine
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Astana, Kazakhstan
<strong>Targets without sufficient Arena:</strong>
Dublin, Ireland
Belgrade, Serbia
Bucharest, Romania
Gdansk, Poland

Examples of Available Players:

<strong>Forwards</strong>
Joakim Nordström Victor Rask Loui Eriksson
Jonathan Dahlén Oscar Lindberg Andreas Johnsson
Tom Kühnhackl Emil Bemström Andreas Martinsen
Patrick Thoresen Pontus Holmberg Sven Andrighetto
Valtteri Filppula Jori Lehterä Janne Kuokkanen
Juho Lammikko Sakari Manninen Sven Bärtschi
Liam Kirk Markus Granlund Martin Frk
Oskar Steen Henrik Borgström Martin Kaut
Kaspars Daugavins Dominik Kahun Rudolfs Balcers
Filip Hållander Lias Andersson Nils Höglander
Damien Brunner Lucas Wallmark Alexander Nylander
Alexander True Frans Nielsen Mikkel Bødker
Frederik Storm Peter Regin Dominik Bokk
Lukas Sedlak Roman Cervenka David Desharnais
Dmitri Jaskin Radim Zohorna Stephane Da Costa
Gregory Hofmann Enzo Corvi Lino Martschini
Antoine Roussel Gaetan Haas Tomas Jurco
Andrew Agozzino Zach Boychuk Peter Cehlárik
Michael Raffl Cedric Paquette Marko Dano
Marian Studenic Alexandre Texier Borna Rendulic
Shane Prince Adam Gaudette Nic Petan
Tobias Rieder Adam Tambellini Martin Pospisil

<strong>Defense</strong>
Jacob Larsson Anton Stralman
Christian Djoos Jonas Holøs
Lawrence Pilut Yannick Weber
Michal Kempný Raphael Diaz
Robin Salo Sami Vatanen
Sami Niku Julius Honka
Ville Heinola Olli Juolevi
Dean Kukan Andrej Sustr
Kristians Rubins Libor Hájek
Lucas Carlsson Mattias Norlinder
William Lagesson Leon Gawanke
Mirco Müller Milan Jurcina
Sean Day Michal Cajkovsky
Simon Després Samuel Knazko
Michael Del Zotto Martin Gernat

<strong>Goalies</strong>
Mikko Koskinen
Jonas Johansson
Reto Barra
Oscar Dansk
Harri Säteri
Magnus Hellberg
Joey Daccord
Louis Domingue
Jean-Francois Berube
Erik Källgren
Adam Huska
Olle Eriksson Ek
Henrik Haukeland
Patrik Rybar
Simon Hrubec
Kristers Gudlevskis
Forum: Other Leagues2 oct. 2022 à 1 h 1
Sujet: If the NHL expands to Europe
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>HockeyScotty</b></div><div>I'm all in favor of an European division in the NHL and yes you have covered the non-Russian hotbeds of hockey talent. However NHL teams have to look at market size and economics when placing teams not local talent.

Tampere, Bratislava, Bern, and Malmo versus placing teams in London, Paris, the Rhine and Ruhr areas of Germany, or even Vienna would be akin to picking Quebec and Winnipeg type cities over New York City, Chicago, or LA.

Maybe Copenhagen instead of Malmo and you still draw Swedish interest from Malmo but not directly in Malmo.</div></div>

I placed the teams into the countries where Hockey is actually watched. Placing a team into London would not bring attention to the sport (necessarily). Tampere, Malmo, etc. have great facilities in place where a NHL franchise could play, and both cities would bring in great numbers of fans to the sport. London, Paris, Copenhagen, etc. would need to be put into place after the market has been secured in Europe, if not the teams might fail. If the NHL could wind up support on the continent then it is the time to hit the large (non hockey cities) not before.
Forum: Other Leagues8 sept. 2022 à 10 h 51