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Originally Posted by Cowperson
For owners, the lockout will prove to have been worth the short term cost.
This is only the latest example demonstrating lockouts cause no lasting damage to a professional sports league. (Baseball in 1994 was a player strike at the end of a season, not an owner lockout at the start of a season.)
Secondly, that demonstratable long term trend, experienced across all sports, is ample encouragement for owners to continue to use lockouts liberally in the future to achieve their economic and particularly systemic goals.
Still, you have to see what season ticket renewal rates will be league wide to make a final judgement of the fallout of the lockout of 2012-13.
But right now, the aftermath of this latest lockout is following a well established, multi-decade pattern.
Cowperson
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I agree that is the case for partial season lockouts, and the NHL was unscathed by the last lockout, in part because there were a lot of fans supporting tge cause. But if they had lost 2 full seasons so close to each other, I believe it would have turned off a significant number of fans.
Part of the reason revenue is more than 58% is that most of the tv deals pay in full if they play a partial season.