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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Local TV money has become such an awful, corrupt game, and the discrepancies are going to further mess up the cap/floor system when some teams are raking in so much more than others. So, there will be teams in cities that aren't well supported that will thrive in the short term (until the RSN bubble eventually pops).
Basically Bettman and the Shark's owners are saying we've maxed out the amount of money we can make off of hockey fans, so now we need to find out a way to charge all the non-hockey fans an extra $80 a year on their cable bills. I wish the media would report it like this. Instead of the narrative of Sharks stuck in a lousy tv deal, how about "Sharks and the NHL want to increase your cable bill to keep the Sharks in town".
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No doubt. The league and NHL teams (by representation) played their hand very openly during those Glendale hearings regarding the Coyotes. We want taxpayers and everyone else besides NHL fans and the teams themselves to subsidize the league. #### profits.