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1984isnowpleb t1_iu1nc23 wrote

Reply to comment by ZeBridgeIsOut5 in Hockey in Connecticut by poorlywrittenriffs

Oh 100% an outlier but I had to give you at least one 🤪 Quebec or the south get another nhl team before we do imo. AHL is pro though literally better than every other league in the world besides the nhl and maybe a handful of khl or liiga teams. If the game keeps growing at this rate in another decade when the nhl finally decides to expand again, maybe we will be a legit contender for a team at least I hope so. For now it’s just a pipe dream.

Ct suns average game was 5.7K fans, I’m not sure what sold out is for them but that’s more than the Wolfpack or the BPT isles which says more about nhl growing the game to me than anything

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ZeBridgeIsOut5 t1_iu1rvug wrote

Haha, gotcha. Yeah the Quebec example is like saying "Championship level teams in England get good turnout why doesn't the USL" 😜

And I'm sure you're logically right about the level of skill in the AHL but it's still 'minor league' in America and likely perceived as such, as minor entertainment.

Also of course an NHL team is a pipe dream, and needs a lot of fortuitous luck. But to say it isn't "deserved" because of apathy based on up-to-this-point mediocre college and AHL teams... is a stretch, IMO.

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