{"id":131573,"date":"2025-09-10T01:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131573\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:14:10","slug":"evening-notes-atlanta-kane-toews-hughes-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131573\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Notes: Atlanta, Kane\/Toews, Hughes Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly spoke openly about the potential for an expansion team in Atlanta during a media availability on Tuesday. In it, Daly shared that the league hasn\u2019t yet received a full proposal yet, per ESPN\u2019s Greg Wyshynski<\/a>. Wyshynski further points out that a group backed by Krause Sports and Entertainment has received approval on a $3B arena development in Forsyth County, Georgia. They are one of multiple groups vying for ownership over a potential Atlanta squad.<\/p>\n

Notably, Daly also voiced support for the idea of expansion overall. He told Wyshynski that the NHL is\u00a0\u201cuniquely positioned\u201d\u00a0for more teams because of how deep the player pool has become. Daly pointed towards the growth of smaller hockey markets as evidence of that growth, and said that adding new teams would be no issue for the NHL. That\u2019s a strong bode of confidence towards the idea of expansion, though it doesn\u2019t seem the league isn\u2019t growing any more roots just yet.<\/p>\n

Other notes from around the hockey world:<\/p>\n

Future Hall-of-Fame winger Patrick Kane<\/a> spoke with Wynshynski<\/a> about Jonathan Toews<\/a>\u2019 return to the NHL. Kane called his former batterymate\u2019s comeback a great story, and remarked that it\u2019s been enjoyable to follow Toews\u2019 return as the two still talk frequently. The conversation led to Kane, once again, receiving the question of whether he\u2019d have interest in moving to his own hometown club, the Buffalo Sabres, in the same way that Toews chose to join the Winnipeg Jets. Kane batted away the question, instead affirming how much he\u2019s enjoyed playing for the clubs he has already played for \u2013 including Detroit. He called the Red Wings a team on the rise, and the source of his career\u2019s revival. Kane scored 21 goals and 59 points in 72 games with the Red Wings last season. It brought his total scoring with the club up to 106 points in 122 games \u2013 and his career-long scoring up to 1,343 points in 1,302 games.
\nTop New Jersey Devils centerman Jack Hughes<\/a> also caught attention for interview comments on Wednesday. While participating at the NHL Media Tour, Hughes said that he would love to have a chance to play with his brother Quinn, whether that been in New Jersey or not, per Thomas Drance of The Athletic<\/a>. The storyline of if, and when, the Hughes brothers would reconnect has been a rich one all summer. They\u2019re a close-knit trio of brothers, including youngest brother Luke, with two-thirds currently playing in the Devils organization. But acquiring Quinn would be a near-impossible task for Devils general manager Tom Fitzgerald<\/a>. Quinn is among the league\u2019s best defensemen. He won the 2024 Norris Trophy, and finished last season as a Norris finalist. New Jersey \u2013 or, any team \u2013 would need to sell the farm to land Quinn. Luckily, he is roughly one month away from his 26th birthday, giving the Hughes brothers plenty of time to regroup with their oldest sibling before he\u2019s past his prime yeras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly spoke openly about the potential for an expansion team in Atlanta during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[4131,64,63,66992,3064,17269,64355,59631,91203,7519,575,39918,68762,85,6000],"class_list":["post-131573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-atlanta","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bill-daly","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-expansion","tag-jack-hughes","tag-jonathan-toews","tag-luke-hughes","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-nhl","tag-patrick-kane","tag-quinn-hughes","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}