Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

[BillsSabresB.C.T. Fan]

I grabbed this from HFboards:

On Primetime Sports today, Bob McCown said there is a story that the NHL is about to announce two new *Western* expansion cities and that the meetings have already taken place. They speculated that the cities are Las Vegas and Kansas City. Also of note was that Winnipeg was rejected.

Fast forward to the 16:45 mark.

LINK UPDATED: http://www.fan590.com/mediaplayer/au.../fan590/pts/pt s_2007-06-01.mp3

http://sabresfans.proboards66.com/index.cgi?board=Sabres&action=display&thread=1180768447

Detroit and Columbus moving to the Eastern Conf. stay tuned

[Michael82]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

If this is true, then the NHL will NEVER learn!


If anything, they should be shrinking a bit...not getting bigger. Hell, get rid of some of the southern markets that don't come close to selling out tickets....

[BlackMetalNinja]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

Bob McCown said there is a story

Seriously... what is with all the unsubstantiated crap you are posting lately. You've made the Sabres section worse than the damn BZ at this point. Someone saying they heard something is not news, so quit posting it like it is.

[BillsSabresB.C.T. Fan]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

Seriously... what is with all the unsubstantiated crap you are posting lately. You've made the Sabres section worse than the damn BZ at this point. Someone saying they heard something is not news, so quit posting it like it is.

don't you read the subtitle I said it was from SabresFans.com here's the link go read it yourself

http://sabresfans.proboards66.com/index.cgi?board=Sabres&action=display&thread=1180768447

also I found it on HFboards

http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=385287&highlight=expansion+teams

2 's for you go read it for yourself.

[Dozerdog]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

Links to what?


Somebody posts junk on a message board.

Someone else reads it and posts it again on a message board. 2 Links? Hahahahah, Maybe I'll post on two boards that the NHL will start building robots to replace more expensive players. Then it will be true!


Got anything from a MEDIA or LEAGUE source?

[BillsSabresB.C.T. Fan]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

http://www.fan590.com/mediaplayer/audioplayer.jsp?mediaFile=http://qml.quiettouch.com/files/audio/podcasts/fan590/pts/pts_2007-06-01.mp3

FFWD to the 16:45 mark

[Dozerdog]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

That was the biggest waste of my time in my life.


LW- please try to figure out how to discern what is an actual news item fact (Who, what, where, when, how) and attributed to a source and what is speculation by a bunch of talking heads like Zig Fercosi or these dopes.


Funny- even this "Story" they brought up names zero sources, zero names, and they don't even prove Las Vegas or KC are the cities .."The most likely cities..."

I can't wait for tomorrow when a caller from Cheecktowaga on WGR-550 announces Patrick Kane will hold out unless he's drafted by the Sabres.... it will be a headline on the forum

[BlackMetalNinja]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

all I can say in response to this is...

"yeah... and monkeys might fly outta my butt!"



PARTY ON DUDE!

[Philagape]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

all I can say in response to this is...

"yeah... and monkeys might fly outta my butt!"



PARTY ON DUDE!

Web site headline: "Monkeys fly out of Wayne's butt!!"

[SabreEleven]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

The talent in the NHL is already watered down enough without this crap.

[snow1989]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

...and besides...Las Vegas has a difficult time 'wooing' any of the major league sports because of the sports betting.....causes too many issues of 'what ifs' if there's too close a game or a loss that shouldn't have been....is why the NFL and MLB will never touch it....and I seriously doubt the NHL would either

[Dozerdog]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

...and besides...Las Vegas has a difficult time 'wooing' any of the major league sports because of the sports betting.....causes too many issues of 'what ifs' if there's too close a game or a loss that shouldn't have been....is why the NFL and MLB will never touch it....and I seriously doubt the NHL would either

I'm not buying the gambling aspect keeping the NHL out. You can legally bet on any sport in Canada through the lottery- so why not in vegas?

[SABURZFAN]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

i don't think Vegas will get a team.you have people working ALL hours of the day which prevents people from attending.it would be nice to have here but i don't think it would work.

JMO

[Typ0]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

If this is true, then the NHL will NEVER learn!


If anything, they should be shrinking a bit...not getting bigger. Hell, get rid of some of the southern markets that don't come close to selling out tickets....

I disagree the best thing the NHL could do is expand into new markets if they can afford it.

[jamze132]

Re: Holy Crap, NHL to bring in Two new Western expansion teams

If this is true, then the NHL will NEVER learn!


If anything, they should be shrinking a bit...not getting bigger. Hell, get rid of some of the southern markets that don't come close to selling out tickets....

That would be a bad idea. The Bills can't sellout all of there games either.