The 5 Least Attended NHL Teams in 2015-16
In the midst of relocation and expansion talks throughout the summer and into the regular season, NHL owners are understandably feeling their seat heat up, so to speak. With multiple willing…
NHL Expansion
Las Vegas, Quebec City Make Formal NHL Expansion Bids
The fate of the Las Vegas and Quebec City bids to gain entry into the National Hockey League now rest in the hands of 10 men. On Tuesday, the Bill…
NHL Considerations: Quebec and Las Vegas
As has been discussed for over a calendar year, the National Hockey League is going to expand in the near future. What started as rumors moved to reports and are…
50 Years Ago in Hockey: Training Camp Notes – Crozier a Lightweight
News and notes from around National Hockey League training camps. Crozier’s Illness Makes Him a Lightweight Roger Crozier, the slightly built Detroit Red Wings goaltender whose spectacular rookie season…
50 Years Ago in Hockey: Vancouver Edges Closer to NHL Team
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson has given a huge boost to the city of Vancouver’s hopes of obtaining a National Hockey League franchise. Mr. Pearson announced that he has pledged…
Quebec City and Las Vegas Enter NHL Expansion Final Stage
The hopeful NHL expansion team cities Las Vegas and Quebec City have both entered into Phase Three of the official process. In a nutshell, Phase Three means that each prospective…
NHL Expansion Process Moves Forward
Get ready hockey fans because league expansion is getting even closer, and both of the primary candidates are moving forward in the process. It was revealed on Friday that both…
Off-Season Fun: Drafting Expansion Teams From Free Agents
Everybody is talking about expansion these days. It seems half our writers here at THW have already projected their team’s protected lists as if the expansion draft was happening this…
The Best NHL Realignment: No Divisions or Conferences
There has been a lot of talk lately, deservedly so, about realignment as a result of impending expansion in the NHL. Let’s assume that you are a hockey fan reading…
How the NHL Can Revive the Expansion Process
The market’s stinging rebuke of the NHL’s early-stage expansion process was surprising, to say the least. No Seattle. No Hamilton. No Portland. No second Toronto franchise. Of the whopping 16…
Note to NHL: Learn From Major League Soccer and Capitalize on Expansion in the Pacific Northwest
Rivalries are the fuel of the National Hockey League and somehow, somewhere along the path of expansion, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman felt a regional match up between Florida municipalities was…
Seattle’s NHL Expansion Failure: What Went Wrong?
As has been widely reported, the NHL’s self-imposed July 20 deadline for prospective ownership groups to submit applications for expansion franchises has come and gone. Las Vegas and Quebec City…