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Refreshing myself on the history it is essentially what happened. Though when MLB took control of the Expos they were expecting the close down the franchise.
However, the trouble with that is that MLB can't close just one team, because of the density of the schedule they would need to close two to keep an even number of teams and they couldn't pick another team to close so eventually they gave D.C. the franchise.
And it did highlight one bad aspect of league control (at least in the context of a league where that isn't the norm) in that they were completely unwilling to spend more than they needed to. Refusing to even fill the extra 10 roster spots available in September even though, one year, the Expos were in the wild card race.
Regardless, I'm not a hockey fan so this is merely a symbolic feeling on my part but I am of the view that there should be no professional hockey teams in locations where frozen water is almost never seen in nature. So no Phoenix, no LA, no San Jose, no Florida. So I'm completely in favor of the Phoenix team moving to Canada.
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