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Rich corporate ownership, not rich teams making profits. Big difference. Why do you think there is so much resistance among owners with regard to profit sharing...BLONG7 said:So in your world, there should be a rich league and a poor league??? Rich teams spend because they can, and the small market teams can't so they will be a Tier 2 league, I wonder how much they would charge for tickets? I wonder how well the teams in the rich league would do amongst themselves? Bottom line is the big boys(Rag$ and Leaf$) need the bottom feeders like Nashville and the Oilers....It makes no sense to say that the teams that afford to spend, just go ahead and spend, ala the NY Yankees in MLB, and the NYR in the NHL...these types of teams and markets are a major part of the problem...
No profits.
The Ranger drew tv ratings equal to only 60,000 homes with an 80m dollar team in 2003-04. Are the Oilers doing this poorly on television or playing to the empty seats the Rangers do?
The Ranger problem is they play in an oversaturated sports market, no matter what they spend trying to copy the Yankees they cannot get any attention regardless of what happens on the ice. Unfortunatley we have too many folks who do not know or understand the New York hockey market or Ranger fans who live in 1994 when the Yankees and Mets were still low payroll teams struggling and baseball still had an
off-season in this region so the media had to fill the space with hockey.
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