Carolina made it in a similar market to those other southern teams so who knows what could happen.. Being a team in those cities it is alot harder to draw the likes of a really good GM, coach management etc.. rather than living in a city with a huge market, which goes hand in hand with having a good team.. making the playoffs and bringing in a good crowd and making the sport grow in popularity within the city. I think the hamilton idea is a cool concept and a team would do well there but we really dont need to be takinig teams out of the west and bringing them east.. the season of travel for the western conference teams is bad enough as it is with detroit, nashville etc. anyways i dont really care either way its not my money.