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Originally Posted by Jay Random
The trouble is, the expansion fee and the territorial fee will have to be paid anyway. If you're giving MLSE parking and concession revenue (and why would you? The team would not be playing at ACC), you're putting a third huge burden on the expansion team. Not even the Toronto Toros had to cope with that much, and the Leafs ran them out of town after just three years.
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I don't think you quite understood me: territorial fees are negotiated as I understand it, between expansion teams and the territory rights holder. So a prospective second GTA team would need to be creative with MLSE so as
not to have to pay an exorbitant territory fee (which could be astronomically high).
So to get around that, you instead offer additional revenue streams to MLSE in lieu of an astronomically high territory fee. MLSE will basically have any prospective franchise by the nads, so they will have to be brought on board as owners in all but an official capacity.