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By: Diego

Diego — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:42:31 +0000

The nice american economy doesn’t go quite well lately. That’s why some of the teams I mentionned are on the verge of bankcrupcy

By: IrishRinkrat

IrishRinkrat — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 00:35:05 +0000

For people who need a perfect league:

Eastern Conference:

Atlantic: New York, Long Island, Hartford, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, (either Columbus, Washington or Atlanta)

Northeast: Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Buffalo, Boston

Western Conference:

Pacific: Los Angeles, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, (either Bay Area or Phoenix)

Central: Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Minnesota

24 other conference games, 24 other division games, 30 division games... 78 sounds like a nice number.

There's your perfect league. Hamilton is a sufficient city to support fans, but they have three teams relatively close, and Toronto is on the doorstep. If the New York-New Jersey area can't fully support three teams, I seriously doubt Hamilton could succeed. Besides, cities that had NHL teams leave should definitely come first.

By: chanman

chanman — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:58:39 +0000

I think you mean Chicago

By: rojoke

rojoke — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:47:08 +0000

Okay, wayne. Got $600 million to buy back those franchises you got rid of?

By: defenestrate

defenestrate — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 20:51:23 +0000

I can explain this one – American economy.

By: TC_4

TC_4 — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 15:25:55 +0000

“so this way only hockey loving cities would be in the NHL.” Why are Washington and New Jersey on your list then???

By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:02:15 +0000

Ok, I might be blinded by the fact that I'm from Montreal (in the province of Quebec for those who didn't know) but I think that if there's a canadian city that diserves a hockey team (and there is more than one) I think Quebec would have to come first. Why?

2 years ago, there was an exhibition game played in Quebec between the Habs and the Avs. The "Colisé" was completely sold out after a day. Really, I might be a habs fan since I know hockey exists, but Quebec surely can handle a hockey team, because over there (2h30 from Montreal) nobody forgot the great loss of their Nordique. A new team would certainly attract more people than the 5000 bored fans in Pittsburg. Hockey fans in Quebec never let their hockey team down during tough times (and god knows there were a lot of them.)

Bring back hockey in Quebec, bring back the biggest rivalery of all time! And make 10 Mtl-Qc match-up per year so we can hate each other again.

If somebody can tell me why Atlanta, Miami, Carolina and Phoenix diserve hockey more than Quebec, I'm waiting for your explanation (other than: "Gary Betmann is an idiot".)

By: wayne2

wayne2 — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:28:13 +0000

Here`s my NHL:

Eastern conference:

north east division:

Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Quebec-Boston-Buffalo

east atlantic division:

New Jersey-NY rangers-NY islanders-Philadelphia-

Pittsburgh-Washington

western conference:

west pacific division:

Vancouver-Edmonton-Calgary-Winnipeg-Los Angeles-San Jose

central division:

Detroit-Chicago-Minesota-Dallas-Colorado-St-Louis

In other words in with Quebec and Winnipeg and out

with Phoenix-Nashville-Tampa-Florida-Anaheim-

Atlanta-Carolina so this way only hockey loving

cities would be in the NHL.

By: bruinexpert

bruinexpert — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 00:46:51 +0000

hamilton isn't a city based around a Mall...there's a huge population surrounding the city not just in it unlike the alberta teams...supporting the team wouldn't be the problem at all..its a matter of getting approval from the buffalo and toronto...that's all that has stopped them in the past as a matter of fact.

By: bruinexpert

bruinexpert — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 00:44:30 +0000

i have too..i’m from Waterloo and in going to Buffalo games i sometimes do the 401 to the QEW and once i’m on the QEW it’s probably about 45 minutes (unless your grandma is driving you) to the Peace Bridge and like you said…as long as there’s no customs issues HSBC or Marine Midland or whatever is right there….3 hours is a bit much..i take 2 hours from waterloo…in bad weather