Quebec will get a team. PKP runs TVA which now has the French language rights to hockey piggybacking on the Sportsnet deal.ss Having his own team to provide even more content which would be of interest to Quebec customers makes so much sense even PKP's brain can grasp the concept. And the arena is already halfway to completion.
I'd love to see a team in Seattle but they aren't as far along. First and foremost, there is no suitable venue for a team to play in while a new arena is built. Key Arena is a basketball facility and to shoehorn a hockey rink in there requires that a lot of seating is lost (think America West Arena where the Yotes played before moving to Glendale) A team could move to Quebec tomorrow and get by at le Colisee until the new barn is finished. Also, the deal in place with the city of Seattle to build a new arena is contingent upon the proposed ownership group landing an NBA franchise. The deal is that not one shovel goes into the ground unless or until that basketball franchise is secured. Getting an NHL team by itself would not get the arena built or even started. So until the NBA adds or moves a team to Seattle nothing else is going to happen. Besides which, the would-be owners of the Seattle NBA team have already stated they do not want to also own a hockey team. So some other ownership group dedicated to bringing the NHL there will have to emerge and unless they're willing to spend their own money to build an arena they'll have to wait for the NBA guys to get theirs built first. And once it gets built, the NHL team will just be a tenant paying rent. They won't get squat in terms of arena revenues like the owners of the NBA team will.
I'm sure all these things could be worked out over time but right now it only makes business sense to move a team (if you're moving one) to Quebec.
