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Shrink the NHL
by Alanah McGinley on 06/09/08 at 07:31 AM ET
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From the National Post,
While some of the sport’s most profitable teams are in the United States—including Philadelphia, the New York Rangers, Detroit, Dallas, Boston and Colorado—its poorest are there as well: Phoenix, Florida, Nashville and Atlanta.
Hockey does not play well in these hot-weather locations. Except for the California clubs and Tampa Bay—which count on plenty of ex-pat and vacationing Canadians to fill seats—sunbelt NHL teams are largely a bust. The league should consider pulling most of these franchises. Indeed, the only reason it hasn’t already is that doing so would jeopardize the dream of a national TV contract.
We suspect that dream is an unrealistic fantasy. Hockey does have immense local popularity in pockets of the United States—particularly in New England, the Great Lakes region and in several northern Atlantic states. But only when all the elements align perfectly…
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