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INHL team relocations are wild. That is due to the fact the league attracts unqualified owners or ownership groups like moths to a flame. It seems that all you need to do to buy a professional hockey franchise is say you have money. That may be an exaggeration but only slightly.
Historically speaking, many markets that have lost teams ended up getting new ones. Unless your team happened to play in Quebec or Hartford. In that case, Gary Bettman has a deep, unexplained hatred for your markets and seems hellbent on making sure you never have an NHL franchise again.
Beyond that, most NHL team relocations involve unfit or underfunded owners making bad decisions. People in positions they should never have been in the first place were allowed to decide the fate of teams they sold anyway. It’s just wild.
Of course, it is important to note that a lot of this was due to the NHL expansion efforts starting in 1967 as well as the WHA merger in 1979. Growth was preferred to stability. Sometimes the results were good for hockey-other times, not so much.
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8 авг 2023
