WC Handy said:
What if the league suddenly gets $0 for their TV rights?
What if the league suddenly has to charge $1 less for tickets because less people are coming to the games?
What if the league suddenly loses Anheuser-Busch as a big time sponsor?
How does that increase revenue ??
You are talking about lost or declining revenue ??
I accept the market shrinking by at a fixed linkage rate then both sides pay for the loss of a sponsor ....
I am taking about as Revenue increases if fixed non-player cost remain somewhat stationary then the NHL Owners gain more then the players do at a fixed rate linkage as the market expands .. The owners are basing their offer of 54% to cover these fixed costs .. Once they are covered like the examples I gave in previous post then every dollar raised goes to owners profit ..
I am suggesting a floating scale linkage based on Revenue streams ..
ie.
53% to NHLPA at 1.5 Bil total Revenue
54% to NHLPA from 1.5-2.0 bil
55% to NHLPA from 2.0-2.5 bil
56% to NHLPA from 2.5-3.0 bil
etc ..
You need to find the break-even Revenue point for non-player cost and then divide up the pie differently once those costs are convered ..
So I think we are talking about 2 different things ..
The NFL players get a bigger percent based on a bigger total Revenue market ..
If the NHL Revenue market doubled from 2.0 to 4.0 bil .. The NHL players would still only get 54% now ..
The only thing that the NHL offered was profit sharing to the players .. but unsigned UFA do not benefit from that .. The NHLPA wants the the HARD CAP to increase so he doesn't sit as a Cap casulty.
That same does for Revenue sharing model as Total League Revenue increase as should the amount of Revenue sharing etc ..
The reason being the healthier the system the more the owners should be able to spend on the entertainment value to the fans ..