Ford Bronco 2021 Quebec First Drive

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Two separate, partially accordant letters on Tuesday announce that the NHL is in the backward stages of finalizing a alliance amplification in the abutting few years, with one of them activity so far as to affirmation the NHL will add teams in Las Vegas, Seattle, Quebec City, and a additional authorization in Toronto, all by 2017.

We charge agenda that neither address comes from one of the hockey media heavyweights you’d apprehend to be breaking sport-changing news, so big grains of alkali all around. Still, it’s fun to allocution about. In yesterday’s Province, columnist Tony Gallagher cited sources cogent him that amplification to Las Vegas is “a done deal.”

From that, Gallagher surmises that a additional team, in Seattle, is on the way to alike out the conferences, but additionally that Gary Bettman and the owners, alike with banknote and courted by billionaires, may not stop at two—he throws out Kansas City and Quebec City as abeyant destinations as well.

Howard Bloom, who runs the website Sports Business News, goes alike further.

If those numbers are accurate, it’s accessible to see why the NHL would appetite to acceptable four new owners. And it’s adamantine to see admirers not acknowledging new teams in Seattle, Quebec City, and Toronto B. (Vegas? Ehhh.)

But can the league’s affection of comedy absolutely abutment expansion? Think of how abounding abhorrent skaters abide the NHL’s fourth curve aloof because there’s no one better. Now add a hundred or so agenda spots. Wouldn’t best everybody be bigger off relocating accepted teams? (It’s not activity to happen. There are leases to honor, owners to humor, and Gary Bettman’s Southern Strategy wasn’t anytime alike about attendance—it’s about actuality able to action massive markets like Miami and Phoenix back negotiating civic TV deals.)

Expansion is coming, alike if it’s not four teams and it’s not be 2017, an unrealistically abutting date because that alone Quebec City and Kansas City can accurately action NHL-caliber arenas. But the economy’s too acceptable and the sport’s too advantageous and there are too abounding abeyant barter after a aggregation to alarm their own for the alliance to sit tight.

The aftermost NHL amplification came in 2000, with the additions of the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets.