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Mike Schultz
Quebec City, Las Vegas Apply For NHL Expansion Teams
This past Monday was the deadline for interested parties to submit applications for NHL expansion teams, and of the 16 applications that the League sent out, only two of them were officially returned. This is sad news for hockey fans in cities that seemed like locks to apply for a team, such as Toronto and Seattle, but neither made the deadline.
Las Vegas and Quebec City are the two official applicants.
Bill Foley is the multi-billionaire responsible for pushing for an NHL team in Sin City, and a media company called Quebecor is behind the push for a team to return to Quebec City, where the Nordiques played from 1979 to 1995 before moving to Colorado.
The league is now ready to take the next steps, which they summarized in a press release, saying that they “now intend to focus exclusively on the two expansion applications that have been submitted in accordance with the previously announced process. The process we have outlined for qualified applicants includes at least two more stages of documentation submission. We will provide no further updates until there is something substantive to announce.”
