How the NHL Can Revive the Expansion Process Walter McLaughlin | July 27, 2015 The market’s stinging rebuke of the NHL’s early-stage expansion process was surprising, to say the least. No Seattle. No Hamilton. No Portland. No second Toronto franchise. Of the whopping 16…
Note to NHL: Learn From Major League Soccer and Capitalize on Expansion in the Pacific Northwest Noah Dolinajec | July 23, 2015 Rivalries are the fuel of the National Hockey League and somehow, somewhere along the path of expansion, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman felt a regional match up between Florida municipalities was…
Seattle’s NHL Expansion Failure: What Went Wrong? Walter McLaughlin | July 22, 2015 As has been widely reported, the NHL’s self-imposed July 20 deadline for prospective ownership groups to submit applications for expansion franchises has come and gone. Las Vegas and Quebec City…
The Forgotten Issue of NHL Expansion Brett Slawson | July 22, 2015 On June 24th, 2015, the NHL Board of Governors began accepting applications towards a formal expansion process. At the cost of $10 Million dollars, $2 Million of which is not refundable…
NHL Expansion Process Moves Forward Michael Straw | July 21, 2015 The July 20 deadline has come and gone for stage one of the NHL expansion process, and the league has announced that, of the 16 application packets sent, only two…
NHL Expansion in Seattle Dead in the Water Bill Schoeninger | July 20, 2015 Along with Las Vegas and Quebec City, Seattle has been talked about as one of the most speculated-about destinations for NHL expansion. I even went as far to take a…
Who Would The Oilers Protect In A Potential Expansion Draft? Shane Sander | July 19, 2015 With the recent news that the NHL has opened up to accepting expansion applications and will eventually expand from 30 to 32 teams, this would call for an expansion draft…
Who Would The Kings Protect In An Expansion Draft? Eric Roberts | July 18, 2015 Over the last few seasons there has been plenty of talk about expansion in the NHL. Along with that talk, fan bases have wondered what their respective team would do…
Seattle & Las Vegas NHL Expansion Draft Rosters Bill Schoeninger | July 16, 2015 Now that the hard part is over (figuring out who every NHL team would protect in the event of expansion), we get to the fun part: the draft. To see…
NHL Expansion Draft: Who’s Unprotected? Bill Schoeninger | July 16, 2015 With the news that the NHL will begin to field expansion bids, the first thought on everyone’s mind was: where will the teams be? The next thought, inevitably was, who…
50 Years Ago in Hockey: NHL Approves St. Louis, Los Angeles Rick Cole | June 28, 2015 The National Hockey League revealed the details of its planned expansion yesterday, and approved two cities as locations for new teams. Los Angeles and St. Louis were designated by the…
NHL Realignment Two Years Later Anthony Pucik | June 17, 2015 It has been two years since the NHL adjusted its conferences to two divisions apiece, and shifted two teams to the Eastern Conference and one to the Western Conference. In…