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In any case, it doesn't mean a team in Toronto will happen. It may never come to fruition - but it's certainly something that's being looked at. Not sure about the Expos happening... Quebec in the NHL is dead... and the CFL in Halifax isn't going to happen. Back on topic... the wildcard round was very entertaining this past weekend - can't wait for this weekends games of high-powered teams battling it out. |
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Wild card Quebec getting an NHL team only if an American team were to come up for grabs and if & only if no other American city like Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Seattle or Hartford, etc etc, wanted it first. Montreal was averaging 9,000 people per game for years before Expos folded, MLB coming back seems like a huge risk even if they had a stadium. Halifax got it's first high-exposure pro sports team to call the city home last year, but they have only been averaging less than 6,000 spectators per game in a league that averages ~10,000 (Saskatoon averaged it's first season twice as many as Halifax). Once the novelty of having a NLL team wears off in Halifax, hard to know how the team will do. I think this would give an idea of how the CFL would look in Halifax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_H...erbirds_season Vancouver getting a NBA team back seems most plausible, but again there's dozens of American cities that would be given first dibs before NBA tries Vancouver again. Reason for Toronto never getting an NFL team can be summed up in one word, the Argos. It just looks bad when the city can barely hold onto a pro football team as it is, but for Toronto to build a stadium & be able to have money for a team and attract spectators seems unviable in NFL's eyes. Had Toronto centric sports media built up the Argos to a highly respectable & well regarded team, even though they play in only the second biggest pro gridiron football league in the World, The Canadian sports media could be making huge profits promoting a Toronto NFL team as "Canada's Only Football Team". |
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Canadians who watched the Grey cup in 2019, an average audience of 3.9 million viewers. +10% from previous year.
Canadians who watched the Superbowl in 2019, an average audience of 4.33 million viewers. - 18.7% from previous year. That's still 400,039 thousand more pathetic Canadian's wanting to be American according to a few people on this site. These numbers only represent Canadian networks so it could be assumed many more watched the Superbowl on American networks. More pathetic wannabe American's who hate Canada. |
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1) NHL has bigger fish to fry and Quebec is not appealing for NHLPA. 2) MLB has bigger fish to fry, although it's my runner-up here. 3) CFL has more important things to worry about and i'm not convinced on the financing of the stadium/team. 4) Makes a lot of sense once Seattle gets its NHL/NBA teams. 5) London and Mexico City are ahead of Toronto, IMO. Quote:
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MLS certainly has a vibrant three-way rivalry between Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver. I think something similar would be attractive to the NBA if they ever did decide to expand. There's enough people and corporate dollars to go around. Quote:
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But that's kind of beside the point. The reason I brought it up in the first place is to show that the NHL doesn't put teams where the demand is, it puts teams where it wants demand to be. The former would result in more teams in Canada than it has. Quote:
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An NHL with promotion/relegation, with potentially more Canadian clubs, would be a smaller, less-internationally reputable league than it is today because it would lack the financing that American growth has brought to it. Franchise model effectively led the NHL to the world-leader status it is today for ice hockey. So yes, pro/rel would lead to a more Canadian NHL, but it would also be a worse quality than it is today. |
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Seattle and Vegas are desired NBA front runners tho - with expansion or team relocation. Vancouver is a solid third to pick up more Canadian market...San Diego just doesn't seem to make things work. |
^ The best and I daresay only chance at making the NBA work in Vancouver is without having to bear the cost of a new arena on that extremely pricy land.
When a measly little White Spot sells for a quarter of a billion, the only way you can make the budget work on a new arena is if you build it out in Langley. |
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But as I said, the NFL wouldn't even give Toronto a sniff if they talked about 50,000 seats. |
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