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New Orleans NHL expansion?

Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:28 pm
Posted by pjk481
Member since Sep 2011
632 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:28 pm
New Monroe hockey team owner and NOLA businessman Nic Perkins goal is to land an NHL expansion team in New Orleans. In the video below his says his goal is next 5 years. Don’t think this happens but didn’t even think it was being discussed.

Video Interview with Nic Perkins

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Posted by S
RIP Wayde
Member since Jan 2007
164046 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:31 pm to
The New Orleans sno-balls
Posted by ned nederlander
Member since Dec 2012
4996 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:32 pm to
I hope this happens. I’m tired of being an internet expert on football, the nba and college baseball.

I need to stretch my wings.
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
116949 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:36 pm to
Don’t think the NHL is looking at the 52nd biggest city for expansion
Posted by WaterLink
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2015
19560 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:40 pm to
"If Las Vegas can stand up a championship hockey team in the middle of desert, New Orleans can stand up one in the middle of the bayou."

Vegas is bigger city number one. Number 2 the Golden Knights were their first team from the 4 major sports leagues. And they made the SCF their first season and which also started with that mass shooting on the strip so it gave the city something to rally behind. They became ingrained in the city pretty quickly.

I just find it hard to see NOLA giving an NHL team that much support when there's already the Saints. The Pels have inconsistent support, I'd expect an NHL team to be even worse once the novelty runs out after a year or two unless they're title contenders out of the gate like Vegas was.

I'd definitely go to some games though if it did happen
Posted by Frac the world
The Centennial State
Member since Oct 2014
19222 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:47 pm to
Nobody in Nola is going for a hockey game, hockey is demographics dependent. We all know blacks in Nola ain’t gonna go see a hockey team.

They’d move or fold within 2 years
Posted by BZ504
Texas
Member since Oct 2005
11348 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:47 pm to
The Pels don’t do great. The NHL would be terrible. I’d rather MLB, but that has no shot either.

Posted by nola tiger lsu
Member since Nov 2007
6174 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:50 pm to
Nola can barely support 2 teams, never getting another.
Posted by lionward2014
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2015
12606 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:54 pm to
Nola residents have no where close to the level of disposable income to support a third major sports team.
Posted by CrazyTigerFan
Osaka
Member since Nov 2003
3439 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:56 pm to
Brass games were super fun to go to 25 years ago. Does that mean that enough people would go to enough games? Definitely not. But some people in the region liked hockey when we had it, and those people aren't necessarily the same people buying Pelicans tickets.
Posted by NoSaint
Member since Jun 2011
12032 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 5:48 am to
It would struggle. I don’t think the transplants are at a level to sustain it but you have a lot of folks in the city that came from hockey regions.

I’d love to go to games. In person hockey is a lot of fun

This post was edited on 6/6/24 at 5:50 am
Posted by double d
Amarillo by morning
Member since Jun 2004
16851 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 6:03 am to
I used to go to several Brass games a year when they were in existence. It was always a fun time but I don't think there would be enough support to keep an NHL team here if even get one to start with.
Posted by Swagga
504
Member since Dec 2009
17326 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 6:09 am to
quote:

Nola can barely support 2 teams, never getting another.


The Pels get supported pretty well considering how they treat the fanbase.

Id trade them for a NHL team.
Posted by ChanceOfRainIsNever
Far from Louisiana
Member since Oct 2016
2450 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 6:14 am to
The NHL has too many teams already
Posted by Kramer26
St. George, LA
Member since Jan 2005
6455 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 6:52 am to
I wonder if this happens when there is also a New Arena for the Pelicans
Posted by REG861
Ocelot, Iowa
Member since Oct 2011
37332 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 7:05 am to
quote:

I used to go to several Brass games a year when they were in existence


Martin Villeneuve
Posted by Jim Hopper
Ocean Springs Mississippi
Member since Sep 2019
3520 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 7:11 am to
quote:

The Pels don’t do great
number are bad because they play in one of the smallest stadium but the fans usually pack the blender out regularly despite the shite show with management.
Posted by Kato
Sec 102
Member since Nov 2006
2925 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 7:17 am to
I’d buy front row season tickets in a heartbeat. I’ve loved the NHL this year but I’ve never been to a game. This would be incredible.
Posted by Dairy Sanders
Member since Apr 2022
2963 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 7:29 am to
New Orleans barely supports the teams it has now, there is zero chance they get a NHL or MLB team in the next couple of decades.
Posted by geauxtigers87
Louisiana
Member since Mar 2011
26023 posts
Posted on 6/6/24 at 7:32 am to
Brass games were the shite back in the day. still dont understand why the hornets and them couldnt make it work
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