NLL commissioner George Daniel still says that British Columbia ranks at the top of the list for possible NLL expansion, he told the Langley Times on Thursday.
The exhibition game between the Colorado Mammoth and Calgary Roughnecks drew just north of 4,000 in Langley, British Columbia, a potential home for an NLL team along with Vancouver, which has hosted NLL action before. From the story in the Langley Times:
“We are on record as saying British Columbia is a market we definitely want to be in,” Daniel said. “It is a market that ranks at or near the top of our expansion plans. It is a market that is critical for us in terms of television and sponsorship in Canada.”
The league’s average attendance is about 9,500 fans per game, which is significantly greater than the LEC’s capacity.
“We are OK with smaller-sized buildings (but) the Langley building is significantly smaller,” he said.
Daniel has said this before several times, so we have to assume that the league will try to return to British Columbia in the near future.
