Posts About "Markham"

NHL Expansion Roundtable: Toronto

October 6th, 2014 NHL expansion was discussed in exhaustion this summer when it broke that the league was considering adding four franchises. The NHL has flirted with Las Vegas for quite some time, Seattle is the attractive date and Quebec City has always been the one that got away from the NHL. The fourth city is the one in which the NHL has already had...

What Another Southern Ontario Team Could Mean to the Sabres

February 18th, 2013 On Jan. 29, the city of Markham, Ontario voted in favor of building a $325-million arena in the hopes of attracting an NHL team either through expansion or relocation. Cities have learned that in order to bring the NHL to town, they have to have the building. The days of approving a team on the condition of an arena are long gone. That...

Will a New Arena Significantly Impact the Maple Leafs?

September 16th, 2012 Sometime in 2014, there will be a shiny, new, NHL-ready arena open in Markham, Ontario, a city of 300,000+ (2011 Census of Canada) located just north of Metropolitan Toronto (in what is commonly known as the Greater Toronto Area or GTA). The arena is the brainchild of Graeme Roustan, chairman of Bauer Performance Sports Ltd., as well...