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From: electrohome@watcgl.UUCP (electrohome)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: NHL Expansion, if any
Message-ID: <1904@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-May-85 15:51:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 15:51:21 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 25-May-85 07:20:35 EDT
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Reply-To: electro!carlo@watcgl.UUCP (Carlo Sgro)
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Expansion, NYET!  Re-organization, DA!  Let's get some of the sad-sack teams
out of marginal cities and into places that would really support them.  An
example is the prospective move of the Penguins from Pittsburgh to Hamilton.
I think that Pittsburgh may be able to support a winner but can they afford to 
wait until then?  Hamilton and other similar cities would support a losing
team so that they can get the finances to build a winner.  There are not
many cities like this, however.  It would be interesting to see if Saskatoon
could, as was promised last year.  In Kitchener, the Junior A Rangers draw 
almost as many people as the Penguins do.  It's obvious that the NHL is 
not going to get a major network TV contract so there's no need to support
sinking ships any longer.

				-Carlo Sgro
				 ...!watmath!watcgl!electro!carlo