NHL needs contraction

Lets face it, the NHL can forget about expansion talk. Instead, they need to focus more on contraction and even moving some teams to more hockey friendly markets (yes I'm talking about you Phoenix, Florida, Nashville, Atlanta, and Columbus).
I'm so sick of hearing about teams like Phoenix going through financial problems because no one will buy tickets to see their crappy teams. The truth is that a fat-greasy rich old man bought the rights to have a franchise in the NHL. So he decided that the NHL fan is everywhere. It doesn't matter where he puts the new franchise because NHL fans will eat this team up no matter what. Well guess what said team owner, you were incorrect. Now the NHL is stuck with these POS teams in terrible hockey markets and yet nothing is being done to eliminate them and buildup the rest of the NHL.
It drives me insane when you have a business man like Jim Balsillie, who knows where you SHOULD put a hockey team, and he has the money and passion to make a team successful in the NHL, yet he is denied a chance to buy one of the struggling teams. The fact of the matter is that hockey is hard to sell to the southern United States. People in the northern United States and Canada grow up playing hockey their entire lives on frozen ponds in their back yards or even on lakes. Believe it or not, but it's hard to play hockey on a pond in Phoenix. For some reason it just doesn't freeze...EVER. Instead of hockey, the people of these areas like to play football, baseball, basketball...ANY SPORT THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE ICE BECAUSE IT'S RARE THERE!
The simple truth is that you can not put an NHL team anywhere and expect it to be a cash cow. It can't happen. The NHL is growing through great events like the Winter Classic and the young talent that is being displayed in NHL games every night, more and more people are following the NHL. However, these smaller market teams that are in terrible locations need to be cut in order to make the league continue to grow instead of wasting money. The teams I have mentioned are dieing and are soon so be dead markets. That's the sad truth. Gary Bettman needs to find his balls and pull the plug on these teams and let them either move to new markets like Hamilton, Ontario or be contracted all together.