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Newsguyone said:Seriously though, Bettman is a Madison Ave lawyer.
He decided it was important to put hockey in major US markets (for national tv revenue purposes, I'd guess.)
Well, we know it doesn't work now, don't we.
1) Just because the NHL got stuck with a dog of a TV deal, I don't think that it's necessarily PHO, CAR or FLA's fault.
2) How long do you give a franchise to establish a fanbase? Especially one where you don't have a historically "connection". Add in expansion rules that make if very challenging to build a team that is competetive initially, so most expansion teams don't have the play-off history to generate interest.
3) If the salary miraculously capped at $30M, isn't this still probably twice the average salary level when the teams relocated from QUE & WINN?
4) Wouldn't you rather have a population of 3-4M people than 1M (or less) to draw fans from. Add in that there is more corporate spending in larger towns as well.
I think you're just compounding the NHL's current issue of the HUGE difference's between the "have's" & the "have-not's". QUE & WINN would become the bottom, and I can't imagine they'd be able to support a $30M team salary, but that's just me.