{"id":423031,"date":"2026-09-01T16:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423031\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:46:16","slug":"houston-mayor-john-whitmire-steps-up-effort-to-land-nhl-expansion-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423031\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Mayor John Whitmire steps up effort to land NHL expansion team"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MayorWhitmire stated that Houston has a \u201cproven track record of helping their sports team succeed.\u201d Getty Images <\/p>\n

Houston Mayor John Whitmire is publicly backing efforts to bring the NHL\u2019s 33rd franchise to the city<\/a> and he revealed that \u201chis office is actively engaged in discussions with relevant parties\u201d to the ongoing expansion endeavor, according to Jennifer Streeter of SPORTING NEWS. Whitmire said, \u201cWe\u2019re talking to multiple parties that are interested … So when we get a proposal, if the city can do something to a system, we\u2019ll be there. We\u2019ll definitely be a better location than Austin.\u201d The NHL announced back in June that Commissioner Gary Bettman and The Friedkin Group<\/a> are in the midst of a six-month evaluation process to determine whether Houston or Austin<\/a> will be the league\u2019s 33rd franchise. Streeter noted Houston is \u201cexpected to be the next city.\u201d Whitmire stated that Houston has a \u201cproven track record of helping their sports team succeed.\u201d Whitmire: \u201c[The NHL] would never regret it if they gave a franchise to Houston. They\u2019d never regret it\u201d (SPORTING NEWS, 8\/31<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whitmire stated that Houston has a \u201cproven track record of helping their sports team succeed.\u201d Getty Images Houston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1116,56,58,57,2484],"class_list":["post-423031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-hockey","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}