Does the NHL Not Like Canada?
The Kansas City Star has an interesting article looking at the NHL’s reluctance to put more franchises in Canada even though the six teams north of the border apparently generate one-third of the NHL’s revenue.
It’s somewhat ironic to see this story appear in the Kansas City Star given it looks like the Nashville Predators will be moving to the hockey hot-bed now that Jim Balsillie’s efforts to buy the team and move it to Hamilton appear to be dead in the water.
James Mirtle, a sports reporter with the Globe & Mail and a blogger, said Hamilton is a better place for a hockey team than Kansas City - something NHL commissioner Gary Bettman seems loathe to admit.
“They could put a second team in Toronto and another one in Hamilton (less than an hour away) and they’d still sell out,” Mirtle says in the story. “In Toronto and southern Ontario, the market is under served. There’s eight to nine million fans. People are dying to get into Maple Leafs games, and the Leafs aren’t that good of a team.”
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