Recently there has been a lot of talk of expansion in the National Hockey League. Many pitches have been brought forward for new teams in the NHL. Most of these pitches involve relocating teams from the United States and relocating them in the Great White North. Jim Balsillie the CEO of Research in Motion has tried three times to relocate teams to Canada. His first attempt was to buy and move the Pittsburgh Penguins, that failed. his next attempt was to buy the Nashville Predators and move them to Hamilton, that also failed. His third attempt was to buy the Phoenix Coyotes and eventually move them possibly back to Winnipeg, he once again had no success.
Despite all this there is talk that it is possible in the future another NHL team could move into the Toronto area. There has been some recent discussion on bringing another NHL team to the Toronto Area, specifically Mississauga or Vaughan. As everyone knows Toronto already has a fantastic NHL team, the Toronto Maple Leafs. A new NHL team in the area is a direct competitor in their market. Fans will be split to cheer for the new team or the clearly superior Toronto Maple Leafs. It is most likely that the Toronto Maple Leafs organization will try everything in their power in order to prevent another team to be in the area. Toronto already has direct competition with the nearby teams of the Ottawa Senators and the Buffalo Sabres. The one thing that would be good to come out of a new NHL team in the Toronto area, would be that Toronto might lower their ticket price in order to compete. Finally I could afford to go the the games! Blogging doesn't pay as much as I thought.
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