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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
1) Walmart and Target are not a comparable for NHL teams
2) STHs are not 'dumb' for paying for an inferior product, they pay for one product: their team's home games against the other 29 NHL teams, and don't get to 'choose' which games (teams) they purchase
3) the league, therefore, has a responsibility and a desire, to have all teams ice a competitive product
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Only the 3rd point is really a counter arguement to things I said. A hockey team competing with another team has a very similiar relationship to any two businesses competing in the same market. Even within my business I have to be careful about stealing too many jobs from specific competitors, who I may use as a sub in dire times. There's industry associations that all of the competing outfits participate in so that there's standardization in quality of product and practices. We're all out to see a healthy industry for all of us, especially when there's a similar industries who perform similar work.
But that doesn't mean I answer to competitors or customers. Any STH can spend money elsewhere. They're not stakeholders. They're no different than any pissed off customer yelling at a cashier at McDonalds. You simply won't please everyone.