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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
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.
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The problem there is that those revenue streams are
forever. If you're giving up, say, $15 million a year in revenue, that's as much money as it would take to service a $250-million debt to pay the territorial fee. And that debt would eventually be paid off, whereas the lost revenue would increase every year due to inflation.
Basically, your solution is worse than the problem. And the problem is bad enough already.
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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.
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It would be a clear violation of the rules if MLSE were brought in as owners in an official capacity. To bring them in unofficially would be circumventing those same rules. I can't see the league allowing that. Do the Rangers run concessions and parking for the Islanders and Devils? Do the Kings run anything for the Ducks?