Canada can support several NHL teams, study says

As the puck drops on another season of hockey in the playoffs, the author of an economic study of the National Hockey League said Canadian fans have sold short.

Tony Keller, a researcher at the Centre for Innovation policy at the University of Toronto, co-écrit Mowat a report which concludes the Canada could support up to 12 franchises NHL - double the current six - including the two additional teams to join the Toronto Maple Leafs in southern Ontario.

In its report, Keller argues that, while the major part of the financial support of hockey comes from the Canada, the NHL continued to push a political failure of expansion in the South of the United States ambivalent markets play, as Phoenix, Nashville and Florida.

"It's a very strange situation where the NHL generates approximately one-third of its turnover to the Canada, but only about a fifth of its teams, to the Canada" Keller told CBC News Tuesday.

His report, says the best place to find a new team would be the Golden Horseshoe, an area that rings Toronto and account approximately nine million people. But other cities could also support the NHL teams, the report finds, including Hamilton and the other London and Kitchener, Ontario. Winnipeg and Quebec may also support teams, according to the report of.

Tony Keller has co-authored a report that examines the finances of the NHL and concludes that the Canada could support a total of 12 NHL franchises. (CBC)

"Here, the application of fan, the fan interest is so high and yet the number of teams, the provision of hockey is so restricted, said Keller." There is no question all six cities, we studied have higher incomes than any team in the U.S. sunbelt. ?

The NHL has resisted recent attempts to move the U.S. teams to cities, something that Keller suggests may violate the law on competition of the Canada.

"Under the strict legal definition, the NHL is a cartel," he said. "It is a group of companies that cooperate for the purpose of the reduction of competition." This is what they do.

But the report Mowat was not well received by the Director General of one of the teams he suggested should accept a new franchise as a neighbour: the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Brian Burke has stated that he did not read the study but is familiar with similar proposals that called for the addition of a new team to the West of Toronto.

"I think that there is a golden horse pile something else," said Burke. "It is not a question of sustainability, it is a second or third team being here without prejudice in Toronto, Buffalo and Detroit.

Jon Desouza, a hockey fan, would like a new franchise located in the greater Toronto area.

"Hamilton, they fill you stadiums larger than Carolina would never be right?" Empty small towns of Carolina in the Canada stage would fill stadiums at the time of the great city of United States, "says.

The NHL responded to a request of CBC News to discuss the content of the report.

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Canada captures the male World Championship curling

Canada jump is right, Jeff Stoughton, an eye on skip Scotland Tom Brewster of the game of Curling Championships gold medal men's Ford World in Regina, Saskatchewan, on Sunday. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)

It took 15 years, but Jeff Stoughton of the Canada finally won his second male World Championship curling.

Stoughton, the third Jon Mead, Carruthers second, Reid and Steve Gould lead beat Tom Brewster Scotland 6-5 in the final of the Championship on Sunday.

"Indescribable." "It's an incredible feeling," said Stoughton. "We have made it."

Stoughton and Gould won the world Crown in 15 years at Hamilton. Stoughton and Mead are teammates when they lost the world final of 1999 end extra in Saint John, NB.

Stellar in the preliminary round of the Ford World Curling Championship with a 10-1 record, the Canada was followed by the Scots at 9-2. The only hiccup for the Winnipeg host team has been a loss of Norway in the final draw round-robin.

Stoughton and company beat Scotland 5-2 in the match Friday between the top two seeds. Brewster won a match however with a victory in the semi-finals, on Norwegian so that the Canada had to beat their third once in this tournament to hoist the trophy.

The Canada was slightly less than 3-1 after four ends, but scored a three key points in the fifth to take the lead. Stoughton was not throwing its final in 10th stone as Brewster was light on a match zero ring with his last shot.

"You know that it is a struggle in the beginning," said Stoughton. "We have control over five." What can I say? Hats off to the team. "

Stoughton, Mead, and Gould wound together for years in various stages of their careers, but Carruthers was a newcomer in the team. It was to adapt the field throughout his career to the role of second on the team of Stoughton.

Canada has won 33 World Championships since the first took place in 1959, with four of the last five years.

The two teams had to deal with the acceleration of ice as the body in the Centre of Brandt 5,800 warms the air and ice. Players had to adjust their circulation weight and monitor curl in the ice.

Brewster error in the ninth was fatal. He needed to peel a Canadian stone house and keep his shooter in the rings to mark two and the match void. But final throw of the accrued skip right and did not push the meter of the Canada away the rings.

The Scots scored a single point and followed by an entry of home without the hammer.

Stoughton has just had to keep the front of the open house, in the case where he needed to do a blow for the victory, but when Brewster came with his last kick, the light, the Canadians began their celebration.

A double hit and roll behind cover by Gould in the eighth allowed Canada to divide the House and make the Scots to hunt the. Stoughton had an open draw to mark two and lead 6-4.

There were preparing to launch its stone throughout the House in the seventh and white in the end, the fans have urged Stoughton to demonstrate his spin patented 360 degrees on the hack and it held.

Scotland second Scott Andrews completely missed one takeaway in the sixth, which hurt the chances of his team to score two with hammer. But Brewster was a fairly easy mark tap an and tie the game 4-4.

After falling 3-1, the Canada marked as three key points in the fifth end to take a 4-3 lead. When Scotland third Greg Drummond was heavy on game zero, Canadians put pressure. Stoughton had yet to perform a tricky hit Scotland a meter off the coast of four feet rings and obtain its three.

Runbacks missed by Mead and Carruthers in the fourth were Canada interference. Stoughton was obtained by a guard for double take and keep his shot tight rings of four feet. But he left Scotland with Pierre shot to renounce a one steal and falling behind 3-1.

After the second occultation, Drummond Gets the Scots out of the crisis in the third with a triple take-out. Stoughton has tried to bury a drawing behind a counter in Scotland, but its stone remained in the open air. Brewster ended up drawing for his two and a 2-1 lead.

Reward of the Canada to beat the Scots in the game of take playoffs began the final with the last rock advantage. Raise spectacular double Brewster spilled three Canadian stones and had Stoughton of design for its one against Scotland five counters.

Niklas Edin the Sweden beats Thomas Ulsrud, Norway 7-6 earlier for the bronze medal. About 100,000 people attended the event from nine days.

Male world 2012 championship will be held in Basel, Switzerland, Lethbridge, Alta., is the host city for the Championship next year.

Amber Holland Saskatchewan won a silver medal at the Championship of the world, last month to Esjberg on the Denmark, falling to Anette Norberg, the Swedish final.

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