BOCA RATON, Fla. - The N-H-L says Pierre Karl Peladeau's decision to run for the Parti Quebecois will have no effect on any decision the league might make on whether to put a team in Quebec City.
Peladeau, who favours Quebec sovereignty, has played a major role in efforts to bring the N-H-L back to the provincial capital.
His Quebecor company has bought naming and management rights to a new arena where a team would be based.
N-H-L deputy commissioner Bill Daly says he doesn't think Peladeau's decision to run for a seat in the Quebec legislature impacts the N-H-L "at all in a negative or positive way."
The Nordiques were based in Quebec City until 1995, when they moved to Denver and became the Colorado Avalanche.
N-H-L Commissioner Gary Bettman and Daly have often said the league has no formal expansion plans in the works.
