I’ll say this...Las Vegas will be as successful as Phoenix, which is rumored to go to 3 places, Seattle, Quebec or Hartford.
If Vegas puts a decent product on the ice they’ll be successful. The Yotes have 2 major problems. 1 - they stink, they’ve missed the playoffs most seasons, usually functionally eliminated by the allstar break. 2 - they’re in Scottsdale, that’s a far north suburb of Phoenix, an extra hour away from Tucson and a solid hour away from most of Phoenix, that’s a tough commute to ask for on an NHL schedule (the Cardinals make it work, but 8 homes games a year mostly on Sunday is very different than 41 a year scattered). Early on when the Yotes were merely mediocre and downtown they got the fans, then the quality dropped, then they moved, and now nobody wants to own them.
Disagree. Vegas has a better chance of becoming a hockey town.
But we shall see.
For the life of me, I’m trying to figure out why the NHL insists on pursuing this losing strategy of putting teams in cities that have no fan support for an NHL team.