NHL Expansion Is Coming Soon 

Your inflection is killing me dude 😂

If the NHL expands it be to Atlanta, Houston, Utah and Quebec

Atlanta, houston, quebec, and salt lake city. Should be 4 expansions. 2 for the west and 2 for the east. Keep it balanced.

why is it hard to image that 57 years ago the nhl had 6 teams

I see Atlanta as a frontrunner because the developer already has a proposal development in the works. It gets built only on the condition an NHL team is officially coming. Now that Ryan Smith formally announced he wants to start the process of bidding for an expansion team, Salt Lake City is the other likely candidate to get one.

NO San Diego??? 3.2M pop only 1 Big Four team currently in the market. AHL Gulls is one of the top attended teams. A new Arena is going to break ground in early 2025

Bring back the Houston Aeros and honour Gordie Howe's playing time there too!

Is bro reading off a script?

Dude, the Houston Aeros were in the world hockey association in the seventies and the ahl in the early 2,oops along with the 90s in the ihl

What I don’t know is why everyone keeps saying Bettman hates Canada. He and owners introduced revenue/profit sharing 20 years ago when the Canadian dollar was extremely weak and Ottawa, Calgary and even Edmonton had fears of losing their teams. Bettman works for the 32 owners not the other way around so he’s the scapegoat for all things hate about the NHL. Plus 7 of his bosses are in Canada and 42% of the NHLPA members are Canadian… if he hated Canada he would have been fired decades ago. Quebec is small and challenged and Quebec City supported their team in the 80s and early 90s but hey left when Marcel Aubut started to see losses and needed a new arena to hike revenue and prevent losses. Look at Winnipeg right now… top 3 team in the NHL but 2500 empty seats per game and in the second smallest arena in the NHL next only to Mullet arena. Winnipeg has 3rd attendance LOWEST by percentage at 82% only ahead of San Jose and tied with Buffalo. As for franchise appreciation Winnipeg ranked 32nd in evaluation increase of just 15% … Seattle has appreciated more in just 3 years. What Quebec needs are deep pockets willing to risk $$ after the honeymoon stage is over (10 years later) and maybe Peladeau and Quebecor will step up… they haven’t yet but maybe soon.

NHL Portland

Let's be real. Toronto as a metro can fucking support a 2nd team. Easily. New York has 3 basically. Los Angeles essentially had 2 teams. Houston maybe. Atlanta meh. Kansas City has an arena ready to go. So does Quebec City.

Well you were right about it being soon now Utah wants one

Quebec, Houston, Salt Lake City and Milwaukee

Atlanta had a team twice and both failed. No more, give it to Quebec

Cincinnati could get an NHL team and possibly a NBA team too

Your Inflection and cadence makin me nuts

Portland is too woke. They can call themselves "The Portland Transitions".

Houston Galaxy for the new Houston team.

Bro the way you say things, quit youtube, become a reporter on the news

The montreal canadiens need the nordiques as competion and I dont understand the coyotes situation and I would see the nordiques play

I would like to see the NHL return to Kansas City. The NHL Scouts used to be in Kansas City in Kemper Arena. Kansas City is making a huge impact in professional sports with the success of the NFL Patrick Mahomes, and with the World Cup scheduled for Kansas City, as well, I feel Kansaa City is perfect opportunity for an NHL expansion team.

Is going to take in the next 3 decades

Gimme the Atlanta Thrashers

Didn't the Blackhawks quash an attempt to bring the NHL to Milwaukee?

The Coyotes have been relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah and will become either the Utah Rockies, Utah Cougars, Utah Grizzlies or Utah Golden Eagles, You going to have to pick another city like Indianapolis, Indiana, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Kansas City, Missouri, New Orleans, Louisiana, Cleveland, Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio and Birmingham, Alabama for an NHL Expansion Team when you do another video on RU-vid

Atlanta failed twice! No more for them. Give Quebec city another shot. Oh, who am I kidding, Bettman won't let Canada get another team. He hates Canada. RAT!

Hey, NBA gave Chicago a 3rd shot with the Bulls so why not give ATL a 3rd shot at NHL. Like it or not, NHL back to ATL is happening. Since 2011, ATL area population has grown 1.6million and still exploding in growth. The new 18k+ capacity stadium project on the north side suburbs (The Gathering) is moving ahead nicely & as planned. The land has been cleared and the construction will begin in Fall 2024. I predict it will be announced in 2025 and the full return for a new team in ATL area will take place in 2026 or 2027

This guy can not be taken seriously has he can not pronounce Nordiques, or Canucks

I believe San Francisco, Baltimore, and San Diego, Cincinnati, Hartford should have a team

San Antonio, TX

Charleston, SC would be a great market or Jacksonville, FL, and another good location is Salt Lake City, UT.

Most of these have no chance. Houston may, but it depends on the arena situation. Hamilton is just an excuse for a bad Maple Leafs franchise. Atlanta has had two shots; won't happen. Portland is too small. Milwaukee already has 3 major players, and likely cannot support a fourth. QC has less chance than Hamilton. SLC same as Milwaukee; not large enough to matter. Houston and KC might come in together, but it'll be a while -- unless owners are ready to throw money at them, and even then, the Arizona situation has to become solid.

I left when when you got to Houston...you don't know what you are talking about....

Not wanting to disappoint cities that really want to support hockey I believe that the NHL should have two levels. Something like in soccer an A and a B level. You would end up with 32 teams in Level A that play against each other for a place in the playoffs with the rest perhaps 16+ teams that play for a place in level A. The top 8 teams from level B replace the bottom teams in level A. This way no city is left out. If a city stays in level B too long and the fans start deserting the team then they can move or just fold.

Bettman’s MO is to grow the game in communities that currently aren’t interested. So any options in Canada are out. SLC is out, Milwaukee is out. Atlanta has given the NHL PTSD, KC and Houston are the only ones that fit that MO.

ATLANTA GLADIATORS THIS IS INTERESTING NAME FOR NHL

The minute you said Hamilton... you lost ALL credibility....... .Toronto and Buffalo have blocked this as it would eat into existing fan bases and both franchises have worked for it to NEVER happen... It was bad enough you said Atlanta.. which would be strike 3 for them .. yes a large TV market.. but no interest from their fans. Milwaukee makes more sense Houston would be a good one and Salt Lake would be good as it fills the arena on none NBA nights. Quebec Nordiques (learn to pronounce it too) sounds great.... but there is long shot

In the decades 2030s Gary Bettman will retired. Later his son is going to be the new commissioner. And takes over the nhl. He will change the conference back the way it was just the nba. It will be easier who’s the standings of the nhl no more atlantic, north or pacific. It will be standings.

Houston - no NHL team, no AHL team, no ECHL team (if they like hockey so much in Houston (7.1 million) wouldn't they have a team? Mexico City also has a large population with ZERO hockey teams.) Kansas City - lost one NHL team (Kansas City Scouts), ECHL team (bottom 5 in attendance in the ECHL) where are the fans? Atlanta - lost two NHL teams (Atlanta Flames, Atlanta Mistakes), ECHL team averages 41.3% capacity (4,900 fans) - Georgia has some of the worst hockey registration numbers in North America (0.02% registered - 40th in USA out of 50) Quebec City - averages 9,726 per game (in QMJHL) that's more than Arizona Coyotes and their AHL affiliate Tucson Roadrunners combined - 8,225. And Quebec averages over 18,000 a game in the playoffs. Quebec City - population 839,311 (7th largest city in Canada - is larger than Winnipeg - 834,678) and Quebec is the last major population centre in canada still without a team (Hamilton and Mississauga can be considered part of GTA) Portland - has an NHL arena (MODA), has a well supported WHL team "Winterhawks", Portland used to have the "Portland Rosebuds" who competed for the Stanley Cup in 1916 - so Portland has a very long hockey history, and they would be a natural rival for the Seattle Kraken, there is only one professional team in Portland (NBA) so far - the market is large and mostly untapped. Portland - population 2,511,612 (2020) Milwaukee - has an NHL arena (Fiserv Forum), the Wisconsin badgers (NCAA Div 1) average over 10,000 fans per game, Wisconsin is top eight in hockey registration in the US (20,975 hockey players enrolled - that is more than Ohio, or New Jersey), a team in Milwaukee would also have the support of Madison, Wisconsin only an hour away (population of 680,796 in 2020), and a team in Milwaukee would be a natural rival for the Chicago Blackhawks and Minnesota Wild (if there can be a team in Manhattan, NY, Hempstead, NY, and Newark, NJ you can have a team in Milwaukee, WI, Saint Paul, MN, and Chicago, IL) the market is more than large enough and passionate enough for three hockey teams. Milwaukee - population 1,574,731 (2020) You can see the difference between "real" hockey markets and "large cities". Large cities are not necessarily good hockey markets. Winnipeg has 800k people and does better than Phoenix, Arizona (6.1 million) in nearly every metric. The team has a better attendance than Arizona (even before Mullet Arena). A higher valuation than Arizona. And generates more income than Arizona (Arizona actually loses money for the league). Winnipeg - 800,000 population sold out EVERY home game from 2010 to 2020 (until covid). 41 home games a year...for 10 years straight - did the Atlanta Thrashers or Phoenix coyotes EVER sell out a home game ever? Seriously? What date? Winnipeg did it ten years straight - every game. That's a real hockey market. 10 million people in Georgia can't sell out a game. 6 million people in Phoenix can't sellout a game. 800 thousand Canadians sell out EVERY game for ten years! And Quebec City is larger than Winnipeg....Gary Bettman hates Canada smh