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I was looking at some Wikipedia stuff for AHL teams after the Calder Cup and I noticed a pattern that most AHL franchises have moved very often. Why is this?
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Parent club wants to be closer, market dries up, ticket sales drop after "honeymoon period", owner loses money/interest.....
Minor league sports are not as steady as sports in larger markets in major leagues.
Parent club wants to be closer, market dries up, ticket sales drop after "honeymoon period", owner loses money/interest.....
Minor league sports are not as steady as sports in larger markets in major leagues.
Milwaukee has been with Nashville since they started in 1998. That makes 18 years and counting. One ownership change. Jane Bradley Pettit died in 2001. Harris Turer purchased the team in 2004.
Who owned it in between those years?
The estate of Jane Pettit...
Minor leagues are much more fluid in team locations that professional leagues.
Uhhh....they are professional leagues... Anytime you are paid you are considered a professional.
Figured something like that, thanks for the info.
The money allotted for the team nearly ran out, according to what I heard third hand. If not for Harris Turer, the team would have moved or folded. I don't think they could have made another year. The team cut way back on give aways and staffing.
This. So much this. The economics of the minor leagues are SO much closer to the razor's edge of survival in many markets, so seemingly small combinations of things can force a team to move, or just make it more appealing for the owner to sell to someone who wants to move. You want REAL chaos, look at the mid-minors and low-minors (ECHL and SPHL and the leagues that have come and gone at those levels over the last 20 years).
The money allotted for the team nearly ran out, according to what I heard third hand. If not for Harris Turer, the team would have moved or folded. I don't think they could have made another year. The team cut way back on give aways and staffing.