Rumor: The NHL is headed to Australia!

G'day, mates!

ESPN insider Kevin Weekes hit hockey fans with a bit of a surprise today when he announced that the NHL is looking at potentially holding preseason games south of the equator in Melbourne, Australia!

From Weekes:

Crazy! 

I personally really get a kick out of it when the NHL heads to European markets like Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, etc. but I kind of tune out when they go to new markets like China, Japan, United Kingdom and the like. Australia would obviously fit into the second category, so I'm not terribly excited for these potential games, but I do think there's some novelty to it.

Frankly, I wish the NHL would do a better job of serving its existing markets, rather than trying to shoe horn itself into non-traditional markets but I think the ship sailed on that decades ago.