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Originally Posted by Notorious Honey Badger
I can't imagine you're being intellectually serious flames, valo. An entire franchise isn't a fataing loss leader. Your treating the Coyotes like a product of the NHL. The Coyotes are their own business operating within the NHL. Yes, the fact that they're lowering the salary cap is a benefit for the other teams. But every single one of the rest of the franchise would rather have them in a successful money making city. It's a ludicrous point to bring up, other than "well, at least it's not a catastrophe for the league".
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The Coyotes are their own business, but given the CBA, and particularly how league-wide revenue impacts virtually every aspect of the league's operation, you cannot claim them to be an
independent business. All teams are interlinked in a way that simply cannot be broken.
I agree with you that every owner would like to see the Coyotes, and everyone else, profitable. But I believe you are transferring your own beliefs onto them when you imply that they would rather the Coyotes were in
another city that is profitable.
And no, it isn't a ludicrous point. It isn't for the exact reason you mock: No matter how hard one tries to argue otherwise, the Coyotes situation simply has not been a disaster for the NHL. It is not ideal, but nobody ever said it was. The doom and gloom that this situation is supposed to have caused is a valid opinion at a first glance, but simply does not stand up to scrutiny.