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Originally Posted by spaustin
Poor Roger Taylor is getting a tad carried away. An actual NHL team here just isn't feasible. We don't have the population. Every other NHL team is located in metropolitian areas of at least about 1.5 million. We're well well short of that. Also, we don't have a stadium or the corporate base to buy luxury boxes and tickets to support a real NHL franchise. It's a very fanciful notion. A troubled team from afar stopping in now and then is about all we can hope for. Going for a CFL team would be a much more realistic proposition.
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I agree that it is unlikely, however the popularity of the NHL and the CFL are two different things in Canada. It's like comparing the NFL to the NHL in the states but the opposite. Sooner or later Hamilton will get a team, then Winnipeg, and probably Quebec City.
We represent the largest city out of 4 provinces without a NHL franchise, thats 2.4 million Atlantic Canadians who are pro-hockey deprived. It's not impossible to imagine a team in Halifax maybe in 10 years or more when our metro population is approaching 500,000. Edmonton, Calgary, and Ottawa are around 1.1 million, not 1.5 million. And if and when Winnipeg gets a team they are only 750,000.