from Eric Duhatschek of The Athletic,
In the end, there are only two choices. Doing the right thing or doing the greedy thing.
The right thing is to let the Coyotes move to Salt Lake City. Player-wise, it’s an appealing franchise. The heavy lifting, in terms of stocking the team with young talent, has already been done. With a little bit of financial backing from a well-heeled ownership to flesh out the payroll, the Coyotes could be formidable fairly soon. Shifting Arizona to Salt Lake City would leave the league at 32 teams and wouldn’t even require the divisions to realign.
Will the league go ahead with expansion? Maybe. Probably.
Should it? Probably not.
And the main reason is competitiveness. If you keep adding teams, it just makes it harder and harder to win a championship.
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The only people who will vote on expansion are the owners (Board of Governors), so the question is: Will a bunch of money-grubbing billionaires vote to move a team? Or will they vote to line their pockets with more free money in expansion fee(s)?
I think I said it before here, but there'll be 40 teams in the league before the end of the decade. It's not a sports league any more, it's a ponzi scheme.
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