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About This Page: This is a discussion on NHL Talk within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. On XM Home Ice today, exactly at 2:37 pm, Phil Espo and Tatti made a quick comment that they were told from someone who works in the league (and specifically
On XM Home Ice today, exactly at 2:37 pm, Phil Espo and Tatti made a quick comment that they were told from someone who works in the league (and specifically said when this guy says something it is usually confirmed) that they are looking at expanding to 36 teams.
That is all that was said and they did not get into details. But man dilute this league to 900 players sucks.
Where are they thinking of expanding 6 more teams?
On a side note, I also heard them say last week that they will eventually play more inter-conference games (at least a home and home with every team rather than play 18 games vs the other conference). But they didn't make that jump right away because there are still a handful of teams that are against all the traveling.
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I'm all for expansion. It shows that the league is doing well enough to grow, and growing of the game is good for the game.
It gives the players more money to play for, and it gives the owners more money to share.
However six teams is.. a pretty damn big jump. It would more or less have every city that would want or is large enough to have a team would have one.
-Kansas City
-Las Vegas
-Houston/Cleveland/Seattle
-Quebec
-Hamilton
-Winnipeg
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Last edited by KFC; December 13th, 2007 at 05:06 PM.
I'm all for expansion. It shows that the league is doing well enough to grow, and growing of the game is good for the game.
It gives the players more money to play for, and it gives the owners more money to share.
However six teams is.. a pretty damn big jump. It would more or less have every city that would want or is large enough to have a team would have one.
-Kansas City
-Las Vegas
-Houston/Cleveland/Seattle
-Quebec
-Hamilton
-Winnipeg
Do Quebec and Winnipeg have the corporate support for a franchise?
I could see Vegas, Houston, KC, Seattle, and Hamilton easy.
36 is WAY too many though.
32 should be the limit.
South Florida doesn't need a team, sell the Panthers to Bruckheimer and have him move them to Las Vegas. Add one in Hamilton and Kansas City, and be done with it.
Do Quebec and Winnipeg have the corporate support for a franchise?
I could see Vegas, Houston, KC, Seattle, and Hamilton easy.
36 is WAY too many though.
32 should be the limit.
South Florida doesn't need a team, sell the Panthers to Bruckheimer and have him move them to Las Vegas. Add one in Hamilton and Kansas City, and be done with it.
I agree. Thirty-six is going to have to have some questionable franchises that will more or less be carried by the Canadian expansions that will more or less be a guarantee, until they build their own stable markets core.
Considering how talented some of the last drafts have been, I wouldn't say that the slow expansion over the next few seasons to 36 would have a very huge impact on the talent pool. I think to say that there aren't 100 people in the entire world right now that can play hockey at a near professional level is hard to say. Only about 5% of the Canadian Major-Junior hockey players make it to the NHL. Who's to say that only about one player per team any given year has something to contribute to the NHL? In addition, this isn't even adding the growth of the sport in the United States and college hockey.
Plus, good players still do need time to score points and make plays. The reason scoring is down is because the players are better now than they've been before.
Considering how talented some of the last drafts have been, I wouldn't say that the slow expansion over the next few seasons to 36 would have a very huge impact on the talent pool. I think to say that there aren't 100 people in the entire world right now that can play hockey at a near professional level is hard to say. Only about 5% of the Canadian Major-Junior hockey players make it to the NHL. Who's to say that only about one player per team any given year has something to contribute to the NHL? In addition, this isn't even adding the growth of the sport in the United States and college hockey.
Plus, good players still do need time to score points and make plays. The reason scoring is down is because the players are better now than they've been before.
Scoring is down because of defensive minded coaching systems, and better goaltending. With that said, the league IS watered down and the product suffers by adding more and more useless teams, meaning more and more John Zeiler's and Jeff Giuliano's. I wish the league would contract back down to 24 teams.
how is this helping the league? 32 i understand, but 36 is just pushing it, so what, now we're gonna have only 6 rounds during the draft?32 is enough to balance out the salary cap for all teams.
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I hope they add more teams in Canada where there is passion for the sport. Hopefully Bettman has learned that hockey will not succeed in places like Nashville, the sunbelt, or places where Nascar rules!
NHL looking to expand to 36 Teams 
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