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[HomokHarcos]

Ka-pi96 said:

HomokHarcos said:

I don't think anything' going to change, it's just more profitable this way. American sports teams do much better financially than European teams. There are other stupid things about North American sports. One example is territorial rights. Even though my city has almost 400,000 people, there's no way Toronto would let us have a professional team even though it's 2.5 hours away from here! Unlike in England where pretty much any city can set up a professional team.

heh, that is pretty silly as well. Yeah, it is more profitable, monopolies usually are But it doesn't give the players/fans as much freedom as they perhaps should have. Although their salaries aren't exactly small so there's not too much incentive on their side to try and change it and fans usually seem entertained enough to not demand their cities get teams too much. Too bad Quebec is still being overlooked on that front though, perhaps next time?

The NHL would rather put have teams play in empty arenas in Florida and Arizona.