Hello Houston, Texas! Why the 4th largest city in the USA, with lots of yankee transplants, doesn’t have an NHL team is beyond me. The Houston Hurricanes has a nice ring to it.
Good point about Houston.
Almost all the major cities in America have the big four professional sports : major league baseball, NFL football, NBA basketball, and NHL hockey.
Houston should be high on the list for NHL expansion or relocation of an existing team.
The World Hockey Association (WHA) when it merged with the NHL was only allowed 1 US franchise but 3 Canadian.
Houston had a successful WHA franchise, the Aeros, but the Hartford Whalers got the NHL franchise and they had to fold.
Houston later got a farm team for the Minnesota Wild that had the name Aeros but no where near the success and has left town.
Texas is a minority majority state now, it may become a victim of its own success. We’ll see in 20 years.
That’s an interesting thought. What’s more interesting to me is that Houston doesn’t seem to come up in any conversations about NHL expansion these days. When they added Las Vegas to the league for next year, the other cities under serious consideration for expansion teams were Seattle and Quebec City.