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"Incredibly" high based on what? The NFL, a league that is like no other? Do you have NBA and MLB data? That is, of course, putting aside the idea of how something can be "driven" when less than half its revenues come from tickets.No, that wouldn't surprise me, but I think it would be a fairly representative proportional figure for most teams' total revenues.
Besides, having reasonably high ticket revenue (even if it's less than half.. which would be incredibly high) still makes the NHL a gate-driven league in my mind.
As for your assumption of the numbers being "fairly representative", see my post above.
The NHL is a corporate money driven league - just like every other pro sports league of any substance. People use the old hoary "gate-driven" moniker IMO to suggest that the regular paying fan is driving the bus. Hah! Assuming it ever was true, that has not been the case for many many years.