wonderboy416
Active Member
I think if if push comes to shove for Toronto to get a NFL team, commissioner Roger Goodell is much more flexible on the idea than Gary Bettman is to have a NHL team come to Toronto.
I agree. The NFL is a shrewd business and run very well. The NHL is something of a joke. If Toronto is deemed financially viable and would be the next logical NFL market, I'm sure we'll get our team. The NHL doesn't seem to follow that kind of logic. They're more interested in stuffing the league with American markets ensuring most Stanley Cups will have two American teams to increase US tv ratings. The NFL wouldn't struggle for ratings if the superbowl was between the St Johns Newfies and the Guam whatevers....
If the NHL had any brains at all a city like Seattle would have been awarded a team way before a city like Phoenix, with a few exceptions the NHL is a northern US and Canadian league and somehow that's exactly the market they have abandoned any idea of cashing in on.