Kansas City is ‘off the list’ of possible NHL relocation cities

Earlier this week, the hockey writers at the Toronto Globe & Mail discussed the possibility of an NHL franchise relocating to Winnipeg. 

Writer Allan Malki offered this revelation about Kansas City’s chances of getting in on some hockey action:

As an NHL landing place, Winnipeg comes with questions. Is it big enough? Rich enough? Viable enough with a slightly under-sized arena in its downtown core?

But here’s the $165-million (US) question: where the heck else is the NHL going to plunk its Phoenix Coyotes? Kansas City has fallen off the list of possibilities. So that leaves, what, Houston, Portland, Seattle, Duluth, Minn.?