{"id":774152,"date":"2026-07-20T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774152\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:21:11","slug":"re-ranking-cities-for-nhl-expansion-in-the-next-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774152\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Ranking Cities for NHL Expansion in the Next Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">One city with a brief and long-ago hockey history is Indianapolis. It&#8217;s where Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier&#8217;s pro careers started in the WHA with the Racers in 1978, before the team was sold to Peter Pocklington and became the Edmonton Oilers. Indianapolis is also a city Frank Seravalli cited\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/nhl-expansion-franchise-austin-texas-2-billion-fee\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a year ago<\/a>\u00a0as a potential future NHL site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Indianapolis has been home to an ECHL team, the Fuel, since 2014, and as the home of the NFL&#8217;s Colts, NBA&#8217;s Pacers, and a regular site for the Men&#8217;s NCAA Basketball Final Four, there&#8217;s bones there for professional success. Obviously, they would need ownership and investors and with the beefy cost involved for expansion, it would be a huge ask for a mid-size market. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One city with a brief and long-ago hockey history is Indianapolis. It&#8217;s where Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-774152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}