Texas Is (Probably) Getting a New NHL Team

Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Houston, we have a hockey team. Or do we? When the hotel, restaurant, and casino mogul Tilman Fertitta bought the Houston Rockets in 2017, the media almost immediately wondered if he might bring the National Hockey League to the city next. Fertitta had reportedly met with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman about doing so, and around that time, the Vegas Golden Knights had begun playing as the NHL’s newest expansion team, with the Seattle Kraken joining them a few years later. Giving Texas a second pro hockey club seemed overdue; Houston is the fourth-largest city in America, and the Dallas Stars have always lacked an instate, or even nearby,…

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