puckhead103*
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don't see tampa bay on the list..
he ties the failure of southern markets to a weak CBA that was supposed to help all teams to reach profitability..
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/setting+Sunbelt+hockey/4828961/story.html
he ties the failure of southern markets to a weak CBA that was supposed to help all teams to reach profitability..
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/setting+Sunbelt+hockey/4828961/story.html#ixzz1NIRDzwZw[/QUOTE]The NHL's failing teams, all of them American and almost all in the Sunbelt, suffer from a very simple problem: they don't have enough fans. And the few fans they have will only show up if ticket prices remain low. This matters because the NHL is an attendance business; the name of the game is putting bums in seats. NHL teams earn almost all of their revenues in their home arena. Unlike the NBA, Major League Baseball and the NFL, the NHL does not have a giant U.S. national television contract. In the NFL, roughly half of the average team's revenue comes from its share of the national TV pot. Teams in weak markets -Green Bay and Jacksonville, for example -can survive and even prosper.
In the NHL, in contrast, the average team earns about 10 cents of every dollar from national TV. It has to earn the other 90 cents itself, mostly by selling tickets. NHL teams ultimately prosper or fail depending on the level of fan interest in their home market. And throughout the U.S., and especially in the Sunbelt, the level of interest in hockey is low. Really, really low.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/setting+Sunbelt+hockey/4828961/story.html