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^ Fargo seems like the kind of place where the AHL could work, but again, they are a junior hockey town with a well-established USHL team. For all we know, they may have a monopoly on the Scheels Arena.

The tricky thing with this part of the world is that there aren't many sizable population centres that aren't spoken for by some longstanding high profile hockey team, whether it's major junior, college or minor pro. In some ways Thunder Bay is the exception (too far west for the OHL, too far east for the WHL), but they don't have a modern rink and seemingly no path to getting one built.