Is continued NHL expansion inevitable or will the NHL run out of interest?

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4.5 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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With multiple cities showing interest in acquiring an NHL team the question becomes how many teams can the NHL sustain without sacrificing the quality of their product? What benefits and drawbacks can continued expansion bring?

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0:00.0	Welcome in to the VNVR, Avalanche podcast.
0:05.2	We've got Biggie.
0:06.2	We've got Jay Mike and we got Rudo coming to you live on a Tuesday.
0:11.5	It's a Tuesday, right?
0:12.5	Yeah, it's a Tuesday.
0:14.0	Offseason draft week.
0:17.2	We'll get into a little bit of a draft conversation at some point.
0:20.1	But we also want to talk NHL expansion.
0:23.8	I mean, I don't know that we want to talk NHL expansion, but we have to talk NHL expansion because it continues to be a topic that swirls around the NHL as a whole.
0:35.6	There have been rumors for a little while now that the NHL could be looking to expand up to
0:40.7	40 teams, which is, there's a lot of teams.
0:43.8	I'm not going to lie to you.
0:44.9	That's a lot of hockey teams to go around.
0:48.7	Yeah, we'll dive into that conversation.
0:52.4	Obviously, the two, everyone expects to be coming are Houston and Atlanta again, it seems like.
1:02.0	There have been some other cities that have had their names thrown around. Obviously, Quebec City is always around, though we talked about that before on the show,
1:11.3	maybe more likely for a relocation than an expansion.
1:16.0	Kansas City's name has been thrown out there before.
1:19.1	There are other ones as well.
1:20.9	But let's start here.
1:25.2	I think you can look at the 90s.
1:30.9	You can even look at the early 2000s, you can even look at this Vegas and Seattle, more recent expansion for the NHL and say it's gone pretty well for the
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