Toronto Maple Leafs Next Rivals: 3 Potential Expansion Cities

#1. Toronto

Wait, what?

But Toronto already has an NHL team?

As much as you may think NHL fandom revolves around the Toronto Maple Leafs in the city of Toronto, that’s not particularly true. There are so many people that you talk to that hate the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Either because the team has broken their hearts so many times, they overprice everything in the arena, or just because it’s fun to root against them.

Regardless of the reasons why so many people can’t stand the Toronto Maple Leafs, this means that there’s a market for another NHL franchise in Toronto.

Just look at New York.

They have two teams within half hour of each other and three within an hour if you include the New Jersey Devils.

Toronto can withstand another NHL franchise easily. Not only do they have the corporate dollar, but they have hockey fans that can’t get a ticket into a Toronto Maple Leafs game.

The market loves hockey and even if you priced it at a similar number as the Maple Leafs, you could sell 15,000 season seats easily.

The Toronto Maple Leafs season seat waiting list has so many people on it right now. It’s always been a joke that it would take 1000 years for that person last in line to ever get a chance at tickets.

By giving the city a new team, those people who desperately have been waiting for NHL season tickets would get that opportunity now.

Also, you know that if a new franchise came to Toronto, they would win a Stanley Cup quicker than the Toronto Maple Leafs, which would cause so much entertainment for some and so much pain for others.