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8 Franchise Relocations That Didn't Happen

In the spirit of my earlier post about markets that would be able to support major professional sports franchises, here is a list of eight franchise relocations that fell through.  In several cases, we can all consider ourselves blessed that the proposed relocations collapsed (the Saskatoon Blues?).  Then, there are the novel franchise swaps that in one case happened and in one case didn't.  In the one that didn't, can you imagine what it might have been like if The Great One had been plying his trade in the renamed Maple Leaf Forum in Toronto rather than Los Angeles after being traded from Edmonton?  Gretzky was already a huge hit with the Toronto media but had he been playing for the hometown team, it would have been rock star like - Beatles proportion.

Full post as published by Sports Biz on December 08, 2009 (boomark / email).