Tommy Hawk
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- May 27, 2006
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Texas stars will be fine. The questions I have is how are the California ahl teams going to survive long term. First couple of years will be a novelty. These team will have rents to pay and a expensive travel to pay for. How many fans will they need to average and at what ticket price?? I looked up the Ontario reign and those tickets are pricy for echl hockey. And Bakersfield and Stockton will both need to boost attendance to survive the ahl expenses. It will be interesting for sure!!!!
The numbers for Abbotsford are public record. I think the travel costs were a couple of mil for the entire season. That's a third line center. Think of it like this, if the NHL team costs with the western movement increase by $3 mil over their current costs the the organization as a whole needs to receive benefits greater than $3 mil in order for them to economically justify the move.
The funny part of a cost benefit analysis is that the benefit can include intangible benefits such as a lower cap hit throughout the season for call-ups which may result in the ability to trade for a higher salary player at the deadline in order to make a playoff push. If they are able to make that trade and it gets them to the playoffs, even if they lose in the first round, the benefit is millions of dloors in playoff revenue which would also increase the likelihood of attracting and/or retaining players.
What value do you put on that? $10 mil? $20 mil? So if it is $12 mil of intangible benefits then the economic justification is there to move the teams.