The price tag in joining the NHL has gotten a lot steeper. Back in 2000, the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Minnesota Wild joined the National Hockey League. The price for their owners back then was a mere eighty million dollars. Fifteen years later, Las Vegas and Quebec City will be expected to pay nearly half a billion dollars to join the league. With a cost like that, both perspective ownership groups are making absolutely sure they’re ready to join the NHL.
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Both groups had to put down ten million dollars (two million non-refundable) just to get their feet in the door.