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In theory, if the sport really took off, what would you guys think of a team in London?

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Never, unless science comes up with a way to eliminate jet lag. And London gets a dome.

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Flying NY to London isn't THAT much worse than flying Miami to Seattle or something.

Hawaii is in the WAC with Fresno State, Boise State, Louisiana Tech and others. Consider that these are student athletes who aren't always taking charters or direct-flights to get to some of their destinations.

College hockey has some weird conference set ups that include Alaska-Fairbanks being in the CCHA with Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Nebraska-Omaha among others.
That's some pretty crappy flying there and they don't even take charters so they have to do one connection after another to get from Fairbanks to Anchorage to Seattle to Chicago to South Bend or something.

It's a bit tricky and annoying but it can be done.

It's not like we're talking 20 hours of flying to get to Siberia or something. It's the U.S. to London which really isn't that hard.

Would be somewhat helpful if there were 2 teams out there somehow though.
In-division they could play each other and the U.S. teams from their division could swing out there for 2-game road-trips perhaps.

And out of division you could have a team like Seattle make a 2 game trip to the NY Giants one week and then to London the next week or something.
So there are ways to make it even easier.
But if it was just 1 team out there I still think it's doable.