More on AHL in the Southwest from the Stars POV

Just got this across my Google reader from Mike Heika, the Dallas Stars beat writer, on the Dallas perspective on the team shuffling that's on the horizon in the AHL.

One comment... he mentions expansion of the league, but David Andrews yesterday was very clear that that was not an option. There are 30 franchises (one dormant) and 30 NHL teams. Period. And, as John's post mentioned, putting an AHL team in competition with the CHL team in OKC is an unwelcome proposition.

The thought I have on this is that I know the CHL has dibs on an arena going up for the 2010 season in the Independence/Kansas City, MO area but no team yet. Perhaps they ship the OKC CHL team to MO, and replace them with Edmonton AHL team in OKC.

(Bold Prediction: At some point, one of us will bust out YouTube video of music from Oklahoma! before this is all over.)

Anyway, it all kinda makes my tiny brain spin, but it's interesting to hear what Dallas is thinking. And it's interesting to ponder the idea of FOUR teams in the southwest.