The NHL Board of Governors has voted to accept applications for expansion into the National Hockey League. The NHL has not expanded since the Atlanta Thrashers were accepted into the league in the 1999-2000 season.
For those of you looking for a time frame in your memory banks on that – that was the year after the Buffalo Sabres lost the Stanley Cup to the Dallas Stars – yeah that long ago. How will new expansion affect the Buffalo Sabres? At first it shouldn’t.
You can read the full press release from NHL.com here.
Why shouldn’t the Buffalo Sabres worry about the NHL expanding into new markets?