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The potential of including additional franchises to the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) has been an ongoing topic since the league's inception. In June 2012, the league presented a plan that would see expansion to as many as 64 teams in up to 22 countries. [1]
But after only one season, Lev was replaced by a team of the same name, Lev Praha, from Prague, Czech Republic, while Slovan Bratislava from Bratislava, Slovakia and Ukraine's Donbass from Donetsk joined the KHL as expansion teams for the 2012–13 season. [10] Lev and Slovan qualified for the playoffs in their first KHL season.
The potential of adding additional franchises in Canada had been an ongoing source of controversy for the NHL in recent years as numerous groups proposed expanding the league into a new Canadian city, or purchasing a struggling American franchise and relocating it north; to a certain extent, these issues continue even after the Atlanta Thrashers relocated to Winnipeg to become the country's ...
Rumors of a move back to Podolsk arose in the wake of the inaugural KHL season as even with the expansion of 2007–08, due to Chekhov's capacity being below the KHL league standards. The team restarted playing their home games in Podolsk, but remained attached to Chekhov. For the 2013–14 KHL season, the team moved back to Podolsk. [3]
Returned to KHL after plane tragedy: Lev Praha: Newly created team 2013–14 Admiral: Newly created team 28: Medveščak: Austrian EBEL: 2014–15: Donbass: Joined the Ukrainian Hockey Extra League prior to the 2015–16 season, after one year of inactivity. Lada Togliatti: Returned to the league 28: Lev Praha: Disbanded Jokerit: Liiga: Spartak ...
If Milwaukee got a WNBA expansion franchise, what should the team be called? Gannett. JR Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. October 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM.
The College Football Playoff unveiled a 12-team format in the spring of 2021 that looked like an exciting step in the evolution of the postseason, with potential to lift the sport's national ...
PLL expansion will in part be decided by fans through a voting system, and Raleigh is among the locations nominated at the beginning of the summer. The future of the sport’s development in ...