Houston, like Kansas City, is not what you would call a "hockey hotbed." What it makes up for in being three times bigger in population than the KC Metro, it loses points in location. Sure, Dallas has seen it's share of successful years with an NHL club, but cities like Atlanta, Phoenix, and at times Miami have not. Houston, like Kansas City, used to be on the shortlist of cities vying for an NHL team before we all learned how ludicrous it was to field another franchise south of the Mason-Dixon parallel, before the advent of your Seattles, Hamiltons, Winnipegs, and Torontos X 2. Who would be crazy/bold enough to buy a team from an ice-centric sport and plop them smack on the Gulf Coast. Houston, for lack of readily available research and a Gary Bettman interview, is not an NHL city. But for no reason of its own.
