SHL Expansion: Why We Need More SHL Teams

I don’t get why cities like St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Chicago (all fairly big hockey cities) lack SHL teams while cities like West Kendall, Hamilton, and San Francisco have teams. San Francisco and West Kendall don’t strike me as hockey hotbeds, while Hamilton is a bit of a weird city for a SHL team. So why don’t we just add teams from those cities? There’d have to be 2 or 4 teams to even out the conferences, which would likely result in teams from Philadelphia and maybe Quebec City added to the Eastern Conference while teams from St. Louis and Chicago added to the Western Conference. There would be an expansion draft for these teams, where each current SHL team would have to protect 5 or 6 players, leaving the rest eligible to be picked in said draft. This would also add to a longer SHL draft, with more picks added (7 for each expansion team). Hopefully, with more teams added (and a better chance to crack the league), this would lead to more people sticking around on the site and less people going inactive.