And as of a few weeks ago we've all seen what the television market was willing to pay for NHL rights. Relatively little.
10 years, $2 billion is relatively little????.
Yes, it is. Hockey is now (way) behind cricket - cricket! - which sold rights for one tournament, one year for $2B.
if the team makes a dollar profit id consider it a success
Anyone who doesn't think pulling a hockey team out of a city that has 5.5 million people, up and coming junion hockey teams that at least quadrupled in the short time it was here, and was slowly changing the perception of people, needs to get their heads checked.
This.
If league revenues go up with a healthy Canadian franchise, I don't think the other owners will give a damn about "stepping back".
For one single nation? Isn't this NHL TV contract we're talking about just for US rights?
Global. The NHL international rights aren't worth a snotty Kleenex. $500M or so for 90% of it's market, not to impressive.
No kidding! The CFL should immediately move the Saskatchewan Roughriders to Los Angeles. After all, there are so many more potential CFL fans there and the people in Saskatchewan can watch it on TV! Brilliant!
Dude, people in Saskatchewan love the CFL, and people in LA couldn't care less about it... I dont see how that would... Oh! I see what you did there.
And there is a large group of people who care about hockey in Atlanta, even if people want to pretend that we don't exist.
I think there are a lot more hockey fans in Atlanta than there are Thrasher fans. One thing that hurt the team was the difficulty they had winning people over, or holding onto them once they were in the fold.
And there is a large group of people who care about hockey in Atlanta, even if people want to pretend that we don't exist.
In the short term, this looks great. Over the long term, you are gambling that the same conditions that led to the relocation frenzy in the 90s won't happen again.
I don't mean to sound like an ass but define large group. I think hanging around HFBoards skews people's perception into thinking that there is a large number of people caring about certain teams due to the fact that pretty much diehard fans post here. It's the case of the vocal minority if you will.
Both have spent their careers developing successful corporations outside the hockey world, and it would be surprising to believe that they have not used the same intelligence in the pending purchase of the Thrashers.
Everyone knows it is a step back and that there are HUGE problems a head
as pointed out in the article--but the pro-peg movement will ignore them all
I don't mean to sound like an ass but define large group. I think hanging around HFBoards skews people's perception into thinking that there is a large number of people caring about certain teams due to the fact that pretty much diehard fans post here. It's the case of the vocal minority if you will.
Sure, dude, but none of that is a guarantor of success for the indefinite future. Even those guys would tell you that much. It gives them confidence, but it doesn't lock it down.