Does Canada need the NHL?
There’s an article in today’s Guardian newspaper which I found interesting and rather to try and paraphrase here’s an excerpt and a link to the full article:
“For months now I’ve been planning to write a column asking whether or not Canada needs the NHL. To be honest, I’m not sure it doesn’t; but then again, I’m not entirely convinced it does. To my surprise, a little light research reveals that the country has 16 cities with populations of over a quarter of a million. According to my deeply unscientific methods of calculation (guesswork and finger-mathematics) these places are big enough to support a Major League team. It would, of course, be a new Major League, one that I’m proposing here for the first time. It would be based solely in Canada. I’ve even got a name for it: the FHL – the Frontier Hockey League.”
Full article here: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/01/02/cutoff_canada_can_live_without.html
So, with the US and Canadian currencies now (all but) equal, the number of uninterested cities in the US with teams and the rabid desire of every Canadian city to have a team – should Canada just go it alone?