Sign up today to help us BRING BACK the HARTFORD WHALERS! Over 6+ current NHL teams are presently in play for relocation…regi ... ster TODAY to be on call for our rallies, social media postings, and public hearings. With your help, we CAN return the National Hockey League (NHL) to Hartford! Hartford’s Knowledge Corridor region (Metro-Hartford/Springfield/New Haven) is now today LARGER than 15 CURRENT NHL markets with a cumulative population of 2.77 million people, ranking as the nation’s 20 largest market (larger than Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, and Denver) as well as the nation’s current LARGEST media market WITHOUT a major league sports franchise present. The CRDA recently engaged the NHL’s leading firm SCI (solely responsible for the recent billion-dollar renovation of NYC’s Madison Square Garden) to design a renovation/expansion of Hartford’s XL Center to an NHL state of the art arena for only $250 million with renovation to include increased seating, adding of an entirely new second concourse, fan amenities, and overhaul the arena’s 40 year old utility systems. The ice system was recently replaced and will rank as one of the best ice surfaces in the NHL!! read more