2008/2009 Endorsements

[spintheblackcircle]

I want to drop the $1 million ABC deal.

Minnesota can't draw 80%. That's realistic.

 

[Brock]

The Florida Panthers wish to drop out of the...

TSN “Total Sports Network†Deal
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with an average attendance of 85% capacity.
Cost Fee: $1,500,000
Revenue: $3,500,000

 

[HFNHL Commish]

AHL:
- Forward with more than 40 points in the AHL
- Defenceman with more than 30 points in the AHL
- Goalie who finishes in the top 5 in either GAA or SV %
- Any player winning rookie of the year, being selected for an all star team, or being selected for the all rookie team

Does being selected for an all-star team only mean starters or does that include extras? For instance Frazee was selected as an extra goalie, would he qualify?

Sorry for taking so long to answer this, Dryden...

While the original intent was for the award to only include players selected to the end-of-season All-Stars (hence why it was mentioned in the same breath as other post-season honors), because of the ambiguity involved, we decided to open the award up to both players participating in the All-Star Game (starters and reserves), as well as players selected to the end-of-season All-Star Teams. Fair enough?

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Cool!

So, Minnesota had Weber, Kennedy and Joslin all get named to the All-Star game. $1 million each. (VERY needed!!!)

 

[Dryden]

I'm cool with it either way. Just wanted a little clarity. Looks like it will help some teams make money.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Cool!

So, Minnesota had Weber, Kennedy and Joslin all get named to the All-Star game. $1 million each. (VERY needed!!!)

Crap, Kennedy is 22, so I just had Weber and Joslin.

 

[HFNHL Commish]

PowerAde
Player’s team CANNOT endorse Pepsi Cola Company
Criteria: Team must have a player 25 or younger who scores 25 or more goals in the regular season.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,500,000

Ducks are backing out of the Powerade endorsement, as Plekanec and Pominville both are looking like they're going to come up short this season.

 

[Tampa GM]

1 50 Gustavsson, Jonas FBK 50 42 2474:47 1182 81 1,96 1101 93,15 3
2 33 Modig, Mattias LHF 54 40 2267:56 1096 85 2,25 1011 92,24 4
3 30 Dahlberg, Nicklas SAIK 55 26 1438:01 717 59 2,46 658 91,77 3

Mattias Modig finished the season with the 2nd highest saving procentage. Another million to Tampa Bay

 

[Dryden]

Blackhawks endorsement update

5. Local Radio Network Deal
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with an average attendance of 75% capacity.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,000,000

Currently at 73.8% with 18 home games remaining.

Mountain Due
Eligibility:
1/ the player must be 21 years or younger as of Sept 30th, 2008.
2/ the player must have played in less than 40 NHL games during their career
3/ the player must remain unsigned and on the team’s prospec

Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $1,000,000 - $4,000,000

Currently the Hawks have 3 prospects who have achieved the qualifications to get the team $3,000,000 in bonus money.

Pierro-Zabotel has 111 points and leads the WHL in scoring
Postma has 81 points for the Calgary Hitmen and is 9th in points overall in the WHL.
Frazee participated in the AHL all-star game
Sexsmith is currently 4th in G.A.A in the WHL

 

[HFNHL Canadiens]

Sanguinetti has scored more than 30pts in the AHL this season as a dman, he did this while being property of the Montreal Canadiens, he has been traded, can I still cash in his endorsement money?

 

[Default101]

Sanguinetti has scored more than 30pts in the AHL this season as a dman, he did this while being property of the Montreal Canadiens, he has been traded, can I still cash in his endorsement money?

I believe you can keep his million and he has been delt to me, and i fully agree that Montreal should be able to keep the million Sanguinetti earned for them, as he earned the whole endorsement before being traded, and i have 5 players that reached or will be reaching their endorsement goal so i have no need for his anyways..

 

[Ville Isopaa]

I believe you can keep his million and he has been delt to me, and i fully agree that Montreal should be able to keep the million Sanguinetti earned for them, as he earned the whole endorsement before being traded, and i have 5 players that reached or will be reaching their endorsement goal so i have no need for his anyways..

If I recall correctly the MD-players have to be on the team for the full season. I think this interpretation of the rule was set to avoid MD-trades, when a team with say 5 MD-prospects trades away a MD-million to another team that doesn't have 4 MD-players on their prospect list. I know I've had to hold back a few trades due to this in the past, and I haven't heard that it would have changed since.

 

[SPG]

If I recall correctly the MD-players have to be on the team for the full season. I think this interpretation of the rule was set to avoid MD-trades, when a team with say 5 MD-prospects trades away a MD-million to another team that doesn't have 4 MD-players on their prospect list. I know I've had to hold back a few trades due to this in the past, and I haven't heard that it would have changed since.

That was the impression I was under as well...

 

[SPG]

HFNHL Rangers endorsement update...

ABC Sports Deal
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with an average attendance of 80% capacity.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,500,000

This is pretty much a lock barring a very surprising turn of events...Rangers are averaging 16,542 per game (out of 18,200), which is over 90%

PowerAde
Player’s team CANNOT endorse Pepsi Cola Company
Criteria: Team must have a player 25 or younger who scores 25 or more goals in the regular season.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,500,000

Achievement has been met. Kovalchuk surpassed 25 goals some time ago. He's currently at 34 goals in 66 games and has recently inked a 4 year contract extension.

Mountain Due
Eligibility:
1/ the player must be 21 years or younger as of Sept 30th, 2008.
2/ the player must have played in less than 40 NHL games during their career
3/ the player must remain unsigned and on the team’s prospect list
Fee: $1 million
Revenue: $1 million per player qualified (limit of one award per individual player and to a maximum of $4 million)

One player has qualified for Mountain Dew (Jakub Kindl for making the AHL All-Star team), giving the Rangers at least their original $1M investment back. Still potential for more players to qualify (fingers crossed for Colin Wilson's Hobey bid).

So...so far it looks like the Rangers are getting a $6,000,000 return on their endorsements, with potential for a bit more.

 

[Default101]

Well with the Powerade (Phil Kessel) being completed the other night as well as..
The Mountain Due endorsement..
- Cody Hodgson WJC leading scorer
- Justin Abdelkader over 40 pts in AHL
- Jonathan Blum over 65 pts in WHL
- Dustin Tokarski/Mike Murphy leading WHL/OHL in GAA

the Coyotes will cash in on 6.5M in endorsement money.. which will be key for the team's future.

 

[kasper11]

Devils:

2. OLN Deal
American Teams Only
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with an average attendance of 90% capacity.
Cost Fee: $2,000,000
Revenue: $5,000,000
Bonus: $500 000 (If team averages 95% capacity)

2. KOHO
Criteria: Team must make the playoffs and have home ice advantage in 1st round.
Cost Fee: $2,000,000
Revenue: $4,000,000

PowerAde
Player’s team CANNOT endorse Pepsi Cola Company
Criteria: Team must have a player 25 or younger who scores 25 or more goals in the regular season.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,500,000

You gotta love that win in the last game of the season to get home ice and my $4M payout.

With Getzlaf and Vanek getting 25+ goals and an attendance of 93%, Devils have hit their three endorsements (the fourth was canceled earlier in the season, good thing since Gaborik scored only 39 goals) and have a payout of $11.5M coming.

 

[SensGod]

Stars batted 1.000 this year on their endorsements:

Local Radio Network Deal
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with an average attendance of 75% capacity.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,000,000
PAID OUT!! Finished with 14,388 avg attendance/18532 Capacity = 78%

KOHO
Criteria: Team must make the playoffs and have home ice advantage in 1st round.
Cost Fee: $2,000,000
Revenue: $4,000,000
PAID OUT!! 3rd overall in the west...division title winner

Ford Motor Company
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with a .500 or better home record.
Cost Fee: $1,500,000
Revenue: $3,000,000
PAID OUT!! Provisionally depending on last home game of season 20 14 6 home record

GM Motor Company
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with a .500 or better road record.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $3,000,000
PAID OUT!! Better road record than at home. 24 14 3 on the road

Cost of endorsements: $5 500 000
Payout of endorsements: $12 000 000

 

[Brock]

TSN “Total Sports Network†Deal
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with an average attendance of 85% capacity.
Cost Fee: $1,500,000
Revenue: $3,500,000
Result - DROPPED

CCM
Criteria: Team must either finish first in their division or have 55 wins.
Cost Fee: $2,000,000
Revenue: $4,000,000
Result - MET

Gatorade
Player’s team CANNOT endorse Coca-Cola Company
Criteria: Team must have a player 25 or younger who has 35 or more assists in the regular season.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,500,000
Result - MET

Mountain Dew
Fee: $1 million
Revenue: $1 million per player qualified (limit of one award per individual player and to a maximum of $4 million)
Result - Two players MET

Total Payout (without the dropped endorsement refund): $8,500,000
Total Payout (with the dropped endorsement refund): $10,000,000

Not sure whether those dropped endorsement refunds were already put back into our accounts, thus why I did two counts.

Either way, a pretty successful endorsement year for the Panthers.

 

[MatthewFlames]

Not sure whether those dropped endorsement refunds were already put back into our accounts, thus why I did two counts.

Yes those 'dropped' endorsements are still in everyones accounts.

 

[SPG]

Rangers endorsements...everything should be final, barring a very unexpected end of season award win for one of my prospects that hasn't already qualified for Mountain Dew.

ABC Sports Deal
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with an average attendance of 80% capacity.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,500,000

The Rangers averaged 16,510 fans per game (18,200 capacity), for 91% capacity.

PowerAde
Player’s team CANNOT endorse Pepsi Cola Company
Criteria: Team must have a player 25 or younger who scores 25 or more goals in the regular season.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,500,000

Ilya Kovalchuk had 41 goals in his final PowerAde-eligible season

Mountain Dew
Fee: $1 million
Revenue: $3 million

The Rangers had three players qualify for the Mountain Dew award.
Colin Wilson, C - over 45 points (NCAA) and Hobey Baker nomination
Jakub Kindl, D - All-Star Team (AHL); over 30 points
Marc-Andre Bourdon, D - 60 points (CHL); top 5 in D scoring

TOTALS
Fees: $3,000,000
TOTAL Revenue: $8,000,000

 

[Fan.At]

Preds

Network Deal:
ABC (Reward: $2,5 million) - 14278 of 17113 = 83%

Individual Endorsement Deals:
Budweiser (Cost: $1 million) - CANCELLED
Mountain Due (Cost: $1 million)
Jacob Markström - Best Goalkeeper at WJC http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/172/IHM172000_85I_2_0.pdf
Jonathan Matsumoto - 63 points in the AHL http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=84813
Mikko Lehtonen - 53 points in the AHL http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=87863
Louie Caporusso - 49 points in the NCAA http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=103716

Reward: $6,5 million

 

[Canuck09]

Here are the results of the Oilers endorsement deals this year...

ABC Sports Deal
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with an average attendance of 80% capacity.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,500,000
Status: The team filled 15,175 of 16,839 seats a game, good for 90.1%. Requirement met!

Bauer
Canadian Teams Only
Criteria: Team must make the playoffs and win 1st round series.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,500,000
Status: Despite taking a 3-1 lead against the heavily favoured Canucks the Oilers managed to lose 3 straight games, a disappointing end to the season. Failed!

GM Motor Company
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with a .500 or better road record.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $3,000,000
Status: The Oilers managed to play better on the road than they did at home, going 21-15-5 away from Rexall Place. Requirement met!

Coca-Cola
Canadian Teams Only
Criteria: Team must have a winning record against their conference.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,000,000
Status: The teams late season struggles cost them this deal as they finished 20-22-2 against the Western Conference. Failed!

Total Cost: $4,000,000
Total Payouts: $5,500,000
Net Proceeds: $1,500,000

Hopefully next season when I get to pick my own endorsements the team can do a little better.

 

[Hossa]

Canucks

CBC “Hockey Night In Canada†Deal
Canadian Teams Only
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with an average attendance of 90% capacity.
Cost Fee: $2,000,000
Revenue: $5,000,000
Bonus: $500 000 (If team averages 95% capacity)

Result: Opted Out.

Bauer
Canadian Teams Only
Criteria: Team must make the playoffs and win 1st round series.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,500,000

Result: Achieved

PowerAde
Player’s team CANNOT endorse Pepsi Cola Company
Criteria: Team must have a player 25 or younger who scores 25 or more goals in the regular season.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $2,500,000

Result: Achieved (Malkin and Staal)

GM Motor Company
Criteria: Team must finish the regular season with a .500 or better road record.
Cost Fee: $1,000,000
Revenue: $3,000,000

Result: Achieved.

Total Cost: $3,000,000
Total Payout: $8,000,000
Total Revenue: $5,000,000

 

[Ohio Jones]

Quiz-question: does being named to the Memorial Cup All-Star Team, or receiving an individual award in the tournament, count towards the Mountian Due (Dew) Award?

Marco Cousineau of the Drummondville Voltigeurs was named the recipient of the Hap Emms Memorial Trophy as the Most Outstanding goaltender of the 2009 MasterCard Memorial Cup. The 19-year-old from Les Cèdres, QC, led the tournament with a save percentage of .911 to go with a goals-against-average of 2.94 in four games played. He was spectacular in the semi-final game making 44 saves as first star of the game despite the 3-2 loss to the Windsor Spitfires.

2009 MasterCard Memorial Cup All-Star Team

Forward – Taylor Hall, Windsor Spitfires
Forward – Jamie Benn, Kelowna Rockets
Forward – Patrice Cormier, Rimouski Oceanic
Defence – Ryan Ellis, Windsor Spitfires
Defence – Tyler Myers, Kelowna Rockets
Goaltender – Marco Cousineau, Drummondville Voltigeurs

It was a great Mem. cup all around for the HFNHL Jackets, as Adam Henrique led the Cup Champion Windsor Spitfires, grabbing a share of the tournament scoring title (with Jamie Benn) with 9 points, and Andrei Loktionov (also of the Spitfires) was also in the top-5 for tournament scoring with 7 points in 6 games.

 

[Ville Isopaa]

The Colorado Avalanche commit to the following endorsement deals:

ABC (85% attendance) $1,5 million commit / $3,5 million payout Achieved. 85,78% attendance.
KOHO (home ice advantage in 1st round of playoffs) $2 million commit / $4 million payout Achieved. Finished 2nd overall with 105 points.
GM (road record of .500 or better) $1 million commit / $3 million payout Achieved. Finished with a road record of 24-24-3 or .500
Mountaind Dew (Prospect achievements) $1 million commit / $4 million payout Achieved with 6 players.
1) Jori Lehterä, Dec 27th 1987, Forward, 47 points in FEL
2) Dick Axelsson, Apr 25th 1987, Forward, 30 points in SEL
3) Kristofer Berglund, Aug 12th 1988, Defenseman, 25 points in SEL
4) Juraj Mikus, Feb 22nd 1987, Forward, 90 points in Slovakian Extraleague.
5) Mattias Ritola, Mar 14th 1987, Forward, 42 points in AHL
6) Nathan Gerbe, Jul 24th 1987, Forward, 56 points in AHL

Total commitment of $5,5 million with a potential payout up to $14,5 million.

Total Revenue $9 million