So far Zaps has been the man!Karri Rämö signed. Hopefully that means that Helenius is gone and Rämö and Zapo can battle for the nr1 position.
So far Zaps has been the man!Karri Rämö signed. Hopefully that means that Helenius is gone and Rämö and Zapo can battle for the nr1 position.
Looks nice and they will also add rink side "Nissan" restaurant/pub to north side...ice level.
edit. and around 500 tickets left for Saturday's home opener vs Riga.
When is Nissan pub opened? Before/after match? Or during? Or all?
Will it be only one time thing for home opener? Or they plan to have it for more games?
It's gonna be another sellout for Jokerit... or not? CSKA and Jokerit had some bad blood in the past, and they are top contenders this season.
http://www.is.fi/khl/art-2000005376521.html
Jokerit has made losses of over 40M € in the past three seasons. Nothing new or "shocking" about it. The loss was 14M € last season.
Why so much? They seem didn't have very expensive players, and 14M - it's a whole average budget for a KHL team.
http://www.is.fi/khl/art-2000005376521.html
Jokerit has made losses of over 40M € in the past three seasons. Nothing new or "shocking" about it. The loss was 14M € last season.
Two things:
Tax rates in Finland are much higher compared to Russia. A player with a net salary of 500 000 € costs around 1 mil € for Jokerit. Travel expenses are also considerably higher. Jokerit are using chartered Finnair planes, which are probably way more expensive than Russian charters.
Still, Finland is a way richer country, than Russia, probably close to USA and Canada. And hockey is sport number one there, like in Canada, Jokerit should make much more money, than it's making. SKA is earning around 15M euro, probably more, and is gonna earn 25M in the next season.
I agree. The situation would probably be a lot better without the sanctions and something should be done to reduce the travel expenses. Less inter-conference matches and maybe a cheaper way to travel. Finnair is not cheap
Yeah, it looks like right now the team is a toy for billionaires, and it should be a commercial project.
Or league, whatever. They can have fun being the SKA JVs for a while longer anyways
Still, Finland is a way richer country, than Russia, probably close to USA and Canada. And hockey is sport number one there, like in Canada, Jokerit should make much more money, than it's making. SKA is earning around 15M euro, probably more, and is gonna earn 25M in the next season.
Finland should be big enough to support a KHL team, but maybe Jokerit is not the right choice for that. In Helsinki (and surrounding area) there still seems to be big division between HIFK and Jokerit. And if Jokerit can't be a team for whole city, how can it be that for whole country? If KHL wants a team for whole country, maybe they should go with a team, that copies national team.
Finland should be big enough to support a KHL team, but maybe Jokerit is not the right choice for that. In Helsinki (and surrounding area) there still seems to be big division between HIFK and Jokerit. And if Jokerit can't be a team for whole city, how can it be that for whole country? If KHL wants a team for whole country, maybe they should go with a team, that copies national team.
Helsinki's metro is 1.4M people, it's more than enough to support two teams. Especially considering, they are playing in different leagues.
Finland should be big enough to support a KHL team, but maybe Jokerit is not the right choice for that. In Helsinki (and surrounding area) there still seems to be big division between HIFK and Jokerit. And if Jokerit can't be a team for whole city, how can it be that for whole country? If KHL wants a team for whole country, maybe they should go with a team, that copies national team.
Still, Finland is a way richer country, than Russia, probably close to USA and Canada. And hockey is sport number one there, like in Canada, Jokerit should make much more money, than it's making. SKA is earning around 15M euro, probably more, and is gonna earn 25M in the next season.
Yeah, no. You need to look at how much countries put into sport sponsorship. Finland is down the list on that one just in the Nordic countries: http://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000002879000.html
The article states that financial sponsoring in Finland is on par with other Western countries and even higher when compared to USA and Canada, the countries originally referred by Kshahdoo.
The level of sponsorship in Sweden and Norway is exceptionally high globally which makes it a poor comparison. One can only hope that Finland could reach similar levels.