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From: sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: NHL Expansion, if any
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 00:37:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 00:37:07 1985
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The owner of the Windsor Spitfires, a major junior A team in 
Windsor, Ontario, has just hired a new coach whose name escapes me.
This owner says that this new coach is just the guy to help
in the owner's bid to land an NHL team for Windsor.

Windsor? Gimme a break.  It's right across the river from Detroit, 
after all.  Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to put
a team into East Rutherford, NJ...

What do the net readers think are some viable locations for NHL teams,
either expansion or transfer?  Some noise is being made by
William Ballard (son of guess who...) about buying the Penguins and
moving them to Hamilton.  Now that might make sense, Hamilton is
a reasonably big city and I happen to think that if New York can
support 3 NHL teams, Ontario can support 4 (let's say Toronto,
Hamilton, Ottawa and Generic-Southern-Ontario [i.e. Kitchener/London/something])
Maybe even 2 in Toronto, who knows.  Obviously this is unlikely to happen in
the immediate future, though.  There's no justice.


Efforts have been made over the past couple of years, some more sincere
than others, to bring NHL teams to Saskatoon, Kitchener and Trois
Rivieres.  Seattle sounds like a logical place for a team and I
understand the NHL would just love to get into Dallas.
Anybody out there got some more interesting ideas?


Steve "We need a Canadian Division" Hayman
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