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Originally Posted by kermitology
This is first and foremost a gate driven revenue league. Depending on the revenue sharing model, it's going to be extremely difficult for the lesser fortune teams to compete. And personally, I'd like to see more teams being able to compete.
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Yeah, which is exactly why those small market teams are thrilled to see 5.2B of revenue coming in, that they get to see, from something outside of ticket sales. It's
reducing the impact of ticket sales. The more money the league generates that isn't driven by ticket sales the better off teams incapable of selling tickets are. So now with the NBC and Sportsnet TV deals the league is going to be making in a couple years 650M from them alone. And since the NHL shares evenly national broadcast revenue (although not all is considered national) that's a pretty huge chunk of the revenue that's being split evenly. It's actually more than half off what the league generating from ticket sales in 2010-2011 (1.2B).
The more HRRR percentage generated from TV deals, merchandising, sponsorships and the like that is split evenly between Toronto and Phoenix the better off those small-teams are.