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Chop credit card interest rates.
Cut my mortgage payment by 33%.
Then I'll be in the black instead of the red.
I'd also like a guaranteed cap so the Jones don't have more than me.
Is there an investment that I can participate in that will guarantee me a large rate of return?
No... those large rates of return come with HIGH risk of loss. If I'm prudent and invest in savings bonds I'll be guaranteed after 10-20 years to have doubled my money. How boring. I'd rather own a hockey team.
 

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It would have been more interesting if you wrote it in binary:

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hehehe... I'm getting a kick out of doing this!
 

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What you forgot is that the owners have arbitrators spending money for them, kind of like if someone stole your credit card and started spending money for you. That, I assume, you would want something done about.
 

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dawgbone said:
It would have been more interesting if you wrote it in binary:

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hehehe... I'm getting a kick out of doing this!
I think you finally lost it dawg....

As for the first post....try...

I live in a town of 50 000 people and we have to pay our doctors 200K a year because if we don't they will all move to Toronto and we will all die.
 

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mooseOAK said:
What you forgot is that the owners have arbitrators spending money for them, kind of like if someone stole your credit card and started spending money for you. That, I assume, you would want something done about.

Actually, arbitrators do not have the power to "buy" players for the owners. Their power is to reach a value that is then used as a take it or leave it offer. There is always an option to refuse the contract if it is too big.
 

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shveik said:
Actually, arbitrators do not have the power to "buy" players for the owners. Their power is to reach a value that is then used as a take it or leave it offer. There is always an option to refuse the contract if it is too big.

Of course... then another team will gladly pay it.
 

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QQQ said:
Chop credit card interest rates.
Cut my mortgage payment by 33%.
Then I'll be in the black instead of the red.
I'd also like a guaranteed cap so the Jones don't have more than me.
Is there an investment that I can participate in that will guarantee me a large rate of return?
No... those large rates of return come with HIGH risk of loss. If I'm prudent and invest in savings bonds I'll be guaranteed after 10-20 years to have doubled my money. How boring. I'd rather own a hockey team.

Hehe.

Nice way to poke holes in that strange "the owners risk their money so they deserve a guaranteed high return on it" argument.
 

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Of course... then another team will gladly pay it.

Then another team can whine about being forced to spend money...LOL
What part of "free will" are you unable to grasp?
 

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Hehe.

Nice way to poke holes in that strange "the owners risk their money so they deserve a guaranteed high return on it" argument.

How about - the owners lose their arse, so they shut the league down! I don't think the owners are asking for a guaranteed rate of return on their investment.

This is just my $.02, but I believe Leavitt when he said that as a whole, the league is lost approx $270M last year. Think of it like this - by not playing this year, the owners will probably lose substantially less money than they did last year. The players are out $1.5B. They're never going to get that money back.

While sports leagues are big business, they are not individual businesses in the traditional sense. If the Rangers (or the Leafs) force 10 teams out of business, they don't get a larger share of the market and "win". This isn't Coke taking market share from Pepsi and "winning", or Quizno's beating up on McDonald's.
 

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dawgbone said:
It would have been more interesting if you wrote it in binary:

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hehehe... I'm getting a kick out of doing this!

Dawgbone, please tell me you have a translator program or website converting that for you, because if you're manually converting people's comments into binary ASCII for fun, I'm going to have to call an asylum to come and get you.

Also, could you tell me how you're doing it? It would make my life a little easier if I didn't need to look up tables to do my homework this weekend.
 

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shveik said:
Actually, arbitrators do not have the power to "buy" players for the owners. Their power is to reach a value that is then used as a take it or leave it offer. There is always an option to refuse the contract if it is too big.

And you would hate the owners of your team if they did that.
 

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And you would hate the owners of your team if they did that.

I would only hate them if they had the money, and were not willing to pay the market value. If they did not have the money, or the award was too high, I would be just fine ;)
 

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I think you finally lost it dawg....

As for the first post....try...

I live in a town of 50 000 people and we have to pay our doctors 200K a year because if we don't they will all move to Toronto and we will all die.

Big difference being that hockey is not essential. On the long run, if hockey stops being a national sport now, nobody will care in 10-20 years, even in Canada. Something else will replace it.
 

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Beukeboom Fan said:
While sports leagues are big business, they are not individual businesses in the traditional sense. If the Rangers (or the Leafs) force 10 teams out of business, they don't get a larger share of the market and "win". This isn't Coke taking market share from Pepsi and "winning", or Quizno's beating up on McDonald's.

Sure, they do. With ten fewer teams the Rangers and Leafs would have a substantially better chance to win. They would not make any less in any of the revenue streams. They need opponents, but they don't need 28 opponents.

Driving other teams out of business is a better strategy than sharing revenue with them.

Tom
 

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Sure, they do. With ten fewer teams the Rangers and Leafs would have a substantially better chance to win. They would not make any less in any of the revenue streams. They need opponents, but they don't need 28 opponents.

Driving other teams out of business is a better strategy than sharing revenue with them.

Tom

But if they don't cover most markets in America, they can't have a national tv deal. At this point, that's where further money lies, so they're still stuck with 10 less teams.
 

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But if they don't cover most markets in America, they can't have a national tv deal. At this point, that's where further money lies, so they're still stuck with 10 less teams.

Yoohoo! They aren't getting a national TV deal that's worth anything anyway! They probably never will! The best chance at a big deal? Make sure Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto have the best teams every year. Otherwise there are no ratings to be had. No ratings, no big TV deal. As if a national package depends on Edmonton, Carolina, and Florida.

Further money for the Rangers lies in a playoff spot. Eliminate ten teams and their playoff chances zoom.

Tom
 

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Yoohoo! They aren't getting a national TV deal that's worth anything anyway! They probably never will! The best chance at a big deal? Make sure Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto have the best teams every year. Otherwise there are no ratings to be had. No ratings, no big TV deal. As if a national package depends on Edmonton, Carolina, and Florida.

Further money for the Rangers lies in a playoff spot. Eliminate ten teams and their playoff chances zoom.

Tom

What do you think the CBC pays for a TV deal? Judging by the fact that they show a fair amount of Oiler games in that 10:00 time slot, leads me to beleive that the Oilers are a popular ratings draw in that time slot. The local Canadian deals probably aren't anything to scoff at.

The NFL has a fantastic deal, but there is no team in LA, the Giants don't do anything, and the Bears have had one winning season in the past 7 years.

A National TV deal in the States means they need fans across the Nation. The only way to do it is too have an interest in Hockey across the nation, and teams in those major areas, like the NFL, MLB and NBA has.
 

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QQQ said:
Chop credit card interest rates.
Cut my mortgage payment by 33%.
Then I'll be in the black instead of the red.

You spend more than you make?

A wise course of action then would be to attempt to lower your expenses, before you go out of business. After all, you can only stay in the red so long.

You might want to concentrate on something you actually have control over, as opposed to credit card rates, etc.

Like say, your employees salaries.
 

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A wise course of action then would be to attempt to lower your expenses, before you go out of business. After all, you can only stay in the red so long.

I could also lower expenses by buying a cheaper house and developing it's potential. It takes a little longer and more work than buying the best on the block.
 

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QQQ said:
I could also lower expenses by buying a cheaper house and developing it's potential. It takes a little longer and more work than buying the best on the block.

In this case, there are just 30 houses, and you'd go bankrupt with any of them. :dunno:
 

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dawgbone said:
A National TV deal in the States means they need fans across the Nation. The only way to do it is too have an interest in Hockey across the nation, and teams in those major areas, like the NFL, MLB and NBA has.

I agree that in order for a large TV deal there needs to be more interest across the US...but most seem to believe in 'if you build it they will come'. It takes decades to build legitimate interest in a sport and change a culture to not only care about last night's scores but to live/breathe the sport.

The NHL is a long way from gaining any significant following in the States to justify a large TV deal. Perhaps it would be better for the league to think longterm about the States and refocus its strategy in more traditional markets.
 

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Tom_Benjamin said:
Sure, they do. With ten fewer teams the Rangers and Leafs would have a substantially better chance to win. They would not make any less in any of the revenue streams. They need opponents, but they don't need 28 opponents.

Driving other teams out of business is a better strategy than sharing revenue with them.

Tom
Then why did they vote in favor of expansion? Is the revenue of expansion fees not shared?
 

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I could also lower expenses by buying a cheaper house and developing it's potential. It takes a little longer and more work than buying the best on the block.
Yes but every time you put something into it, they raise your taxes so you can no longer afford that new deck you built, but the Jones can so they come take it down and move it to there house, now you have a house with no deck at all and our forced to start to rebuild it from ground up again. Next they take your furniture, then, the appliances. Everytime you get something nicer than theirs they're going to come in and take it away becuase you simply cannot afford it.
 
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