Expansion & Markets
June 13, 2026
The New Orleans Expansion Case
New Orleans is not a conventional hockey market, and that is precisely why it belongs in any serious conversation about the next wave of NHL growth. The Vision 40 framework already flags it as the Gulf South piece that rounds out a balanced 40-team map, adding identity and a western-conference home without relying on tâĤ
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Research
Goaltending efficacy across the 2021â2026 era, pre-draft rankings for the 2020â2024 classes, an all-time top 100 built from Point Shares and hardware, and a reference to public NHLe work with example factors plus the theory that they best approximate league strength for production weighting. Methodology published with each dataset.
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