Landry: No immediate plans for an NHL team in New Orleans, but 'we would talk to anybody'

Gov. Jeff Landry didn’t rule out putting a professional hockey franchise in New Orleans but said there hasn’t been any discussion between him and the National Hockey League about doing so.

“I think New Orleans is one of those cities that is poised to be the place where sports happens,” Landry said in an interview earlier this week. “We would talk to the NHL. We would talk to anybody that wants to bring anything there.”

“Certainly, if there’s an appetite for them to come to New Orleans, we’re interested in having one,” the governor said.

Rumblings about the NHL coming to New Orleans picked up when Nic Perkin, the owner of a new minor league hockey team in Monroe, talked at length about the possibility during a news conference last week.




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