A Yahoo Sports article reports that Deputy NHL Commissioner Bill Daley expressed his pleasure with the progress of the Las Vegas season ticket drive for a potential expansion franchise in that city. Daley was attending the IMG World Congress of Sports in Los Angeles earlier in the week when he stated the following.
"The response in Las Vegas has been very impressive and certainly suggests that there is an ability to support a professional sports franchise and particularly an NHL franchise at this point in time," Daly said while speaking on a panel with other sports business insiders. "We have a Board of Governors meeting coming up in June. We'll obviously report on the results of the Las Vegas ticket drive and we'll have a discussion with our ownership as to whether they want to entertain the concept of expansion; they haven't made that decision yet. And if they want to entertain the concept of expansion, how they want to do it."
Wouldn't it be great if there was an NHL-first MOU modification in place for the SoDo arena before that meeting in June? I think that would be great. Do you think that would be great?
