Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta is interested in buying the Saints

NatureBoy said
The only way Houston gets an NHL team that Tilman doesn't own is if they build a new arena. I can't see that. The Toyota Center is still relavitely new and a very nice venue. There is no reason a hockey team couldn't co-exist there with the Rockets. Wait, yeah, there is a reason, Tilman. He pretends to be Houston's hockey great hope when indeed he's its biggest road block.

I live about 50 miles north of Houston in Montgomery County. I'd love to see a north side arena. I hate going downtown (Harris County) but it's worth it to catch a handful of Astros games each year and catch a few concerts at Toyota Center. I'd love it if we had an NHL team or minor league team in this part of the city. Minor league baseball isn't probably though as Houston has a triple A team in Sugarland (West Houston, about 60 miles from me).

I may have mentioned in this thread or another one about how over the past 5-10 years, from the perspectives of Kansas City-area sports fans, this period is very much a golden age mostly in the sense that the Chiefs are essentially the new, reigning NFL Dynasty, the heir apparent to NE's Brady/Belichick's long-running, unbeatable near-20 year long dynasty. The Royals had a great two-year run from 2014-15 first making a WS in 14, then winning it outright the next year, and then regressing back to being a mediocre-flimsy squad, until kind of getting their acts together this past season, when they made an unexpected, decent playoff run.

I mention Kansas City, because in some respects, at least in the context of the Astros, and maybe more recently the Texans, I don't think I can remember another historical period in Houston's long sports history where one of their teams was and kinda still is a bit of a dynasty with what the Astros have managed to achieve over the past decade. The Oilers, the 80's and 90's "Twin Towers" Rockets teams came close and "Phi Slamma Jamma" ruled and revolutionalized NCAA college hoops in the early-to-mid 80's. While the original Oilers did win two AFL titles in the early 1960's, the only other Houston-based franchise sports team that one might argue comes close to what the Astros have accomplished are mid-90's Houston Rockets.

In some respects, if you're an Astros fan, the past decade has very much been a remarkable, outstanding time unparalleled in team history dating back to the Houston 45's.