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Originally Posted by Acajack
Yes, it is that. The NHL hasn't allowed an expansion team onto the turf of an existing club in almost 25 years. Plus the Maple Leafs are the league's most valuable franchise and carry a lot of weight around the Board of Governors table.
A second NHL team in the wider GTA would do fine. (Certainly, relative to any number of current sad-sack franchises in the league.)
I get the impression you don't fully grasp just how much money and population (and therefore disposable entertainment and corporate dollars) there is in the Golden Horseshoe region.
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I must be way out to lunch, I could have sworn Rangers and Canadiens were more valuable franchises, than the Maple Leafs.
All I know is The Prairies and Golden Horseshoe is about same population, personal incomes are higher in The Prairies though, because it's so expensive to live in GTA it really cuts into disposable income and therefore people can't go out as much for entertainment in Toronto.
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