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Four Nations, Canada takes on the world

TheCountofMonteCristo said:
assuming you are correct and there was no growth, what do you suggest the NHL do to "grow the game"?
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Nothing. They don't need to grow it and it's not the NHL's job.

What the NHL needs to do is focus on the health of its current product. It needs to stop insisting on putting franchises into non hockey markets that don't give a shit. For example, we never needed Atlanta to have a franchise. We didn't need it in 1972, we didn't need it in 1999 and we don't need it now.

We clearly don't need 2 teams in the LA area, either.

In the US, there are a few cities that could use a team, but Atlanta isn't one of them. Portland Or. Houston, Milwaukee, and Hartford should get teams before Atlanta. And in Canada, Quebec City needs to come back and make Geoff Molson's life awkward so that he doesn't get complacent.
 
Once the Roman Empire stopped expanding, it started contracting (like slavery in the US before 1860). If the NHL does not grow, it will die
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
Once the Roman Empire stopped expanding, it started contracting (like slavery in the US before 1860). If the NHL does not grow, it will die
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It will die sooner if it keeps shoehorning franchises into shit markets that don't care and oversaturating them. It will also die if its product is so thinned out that there are no elite teams anymore, just varying degrees of mediocre ones.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I've already forgotten it.

But I've not forgotten to remind you of its ultimate irrelevance. If the stated goal was to help "grow the game" as I heard incessantly during the tournament, then it was a failure. The NHL got absolutely no ratings bump whatsoever.
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Don’t you think you should give it a few weeks, let alone a few years before determining if it grew the game….
 
Rolex said:
Don’t you think you should give it a few weeks, let alone a few years before determining if it grew the game….
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It didn't. All 32 teams were in action last weekend and the US ratings were the usual garbage. They didn't get even a temporary ratings bump.
 
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