REPORT: NHL Considers Top 4 Expansion Cities

Population matters more

Ducks and kings proved that an Latinos are rising with hockey in SoCal

Houston would pull from San Antonio crowd too but tbh Houston and San Antonio-Austin should be considered first

Hockey in Arizona is complete bullshit.

Atlanta a third time? What's the definition of madness? Every Atlanta team eventually moves to Canada, so good for Quebec City?

Orlando city

If Arizona can get an arena deal in Phoenix-Tempe…the Coyotes are 100% coming back

Jacksonville absolutely belongs on the list.

San Diego should have a NHL team.

Cause Atlanta worked so well the first two times we tried it

Colorado proved feasible about the part about already having an NFL and NBA team. Or even a baseball team. The Avs are doing great.

That sounds like flat out greed for expansion fees.

I think the next 4 could be Portland, Houston, Milwaukee, and Hartford.
-Portland in Pacific
-Houston + Milwaukee in Central
-Hartford in Atlantic
Move Nashville to Metropolitan.

Atlanta shouldn't get another chance. Just cause there is people there doesn't mean they will support hockey. They have learned nothing from Phoenix

Portland Oregon

Kansas City HAS to be that mix somewhere, It's bigger than all 5 of those cities, it ALREADY has a brand new State of the Arena built and sitting empty for the most part that the team wouldn't have to share it was in the mix with both Vegas and Seattle and was the talked about STRONGLY as the most likely city for the Coyotes to end up at when it first announced leaving Phoenix. A team could be announced right now and start playing in September when the 26-27 season starts. I would SAY it's a no brainer but the NHL obviously doesn't have much brains.

Brodie BRAZIL: Shouldn't you have talked about football (aka soccer) in BRAZIL instead of NHL ice hockey?! 🙂

Dumb areas. Too wokie, and the cities will abuse them with taxes.

QUEBEC?

No to Atlanta playing several they’ve had two tries that and if they both times

More Canadian NHL Teams are most Urgently Needed and its high time we started having More Canadian Teams in such cities
such as Victoria BC Kamloops BC Kelowna BC Squamish BC Prince George BC And Prince Rupert BC. Regina SK Saskatoon SK
Prince Albert SK Moose Jaw SK And Swift Current SK. More in Places Like Brandon MB Churchill MB Steinbach MB Flin Flon MB
And Why not have Lethbridge AB Red Deer AB Medicine AB More in those Cities in those 3 Provinces.

Ideally, presuming you have willing ownership and suitable facilities, it would go Houston, Arlington, Kansas City, and Atlanta. 3 new teams in the Western Conference would let Nashville move to the Eastern Conference. 3 team rivalry in Texas would work just like the 3 team rivalry works in California. Unless the Maple Leafs decide not to veto another team in the Greater Toronto Area, adding another Canadian team is simply not going to happen.

Realistically I don't see expansion happening any time soon.

8:37 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Don't want to see ATL 3.0. Houston can work. NO won't work. Maybe Austin, how about KC? Phoenix could work with the right owner. I think the owners alienated the market. Hou, Austin, KC, and Phoenix.

I feel like more than 32 teams is too many

For people wondering why Wisconsin isn't up for a team. Milwaukee is the only city big enough for an NHL team and 3 teams have basically already called dibs on the Milwaukee market. Minnesota because Milwaukee and Minneapolis shared the FSN/bally/fan duel network in the region meaning Wild games are shown in Wisconsin. BlackHawks due to Milwaukee and Chicago proximity to each other and WGN. Finally the Predators, because the Milwaukee Admirals are their AHL franchise and the belief around here is the Predators don't want to lose Milwaukee if an NHL team calls Milwaukee home. only other options are Green Bay and Madison. Green Bay doesn't have an major league arena and you'd having a losing interest battle with the Packers and Madison has the Kolhs Center but I don't think Madison has the market size to keep a team.

Would I like a Wisconsin NHL team? Yeah it would be great for the community and Wisconsin not having a major league hockey team is werid for sure. But i'm a Ducks fan. So I'm not just going to abandon ship after decades of being an Anaheim fan for expansion Milwaukee or Madison team.

I'd go with Austin before New Orleans, and I'd give Kansas City a shot as opposed to giving Atlanta a third try, but I can understand these as the choices.

It all comes down to who has the $$$$$$ and the place to play. S. Ryan Smith saw an opening with arena problems in the Phoenix metro. Didn't some potential owners of these expansion candidate cities see this earlier? Why didn't they jump in? I do realize that the move to Salt Lake caused no realignment confusion.

Just after Baltimore lost its Canadian Football League team, Art Modell jumped in. Salt Lake and Baltimore were NOT considered as primary expansion candidates.

Quebec City, Kansas City, Atlanta, Houston, and Portland (Oregon) all have NHL-compatible arenas. Some would need to work out deals with existing NBA teams. New Orleans and Oklahoma City hosted minor-league hockey, but both teams gave way to new NBA teams.

So Phoenix isn't in the mix?

AUSTIN is NOT 4 x bigger than SALT LAKE - both metro areas are similar sized

Too many teams; just like the nba, the talent pool is not there.

Brodie....what about KC?

The Alpharetta group actually are further in their plan to build an arena for an NHL team. There are plans in play to tear down North Point Mall in Alpharetta and build an arena there along with improving public transit in the area.

Damn y'all not gonna say Baltimore, Kansas City or Louisville Kentucky maybe Portland

San Diego is a sports city, don't let Spanos and Sterling tell you otherwise. They deserve an NHL team.

Canadians don't have the money to get another team.

The fees are so high because they know it will be a long long time before another expansion and all of the owners are rabid for their shares of these fees.

$2 billion…no thanks. Chicago Blackhawks ain’t worth $2 billion and they are top 5 valuations…stop with the stupid southern cities. Atlanta already lost a team.

Too many teams now. Shrink the NHL.

We don’t need 36 teams, bad idea