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Originally Posted by Hackey
Well first of all the NFL is an entirely different animal. There are 16 games a year. Majority of those games are played on one day. Secondly there were 13 teams in the NFL last year with below .500 records. The NHL had 5.
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Not to mention revenue sharing. NFL teams are highly subsidized because the betterment of the league is better than the wealth of the top 5 owners. The NHL has an old boys club within the board of governors who simply are too capitalistic to increase revenue sharing percentages. Look at the Winnipeg relocation fee for god's sake. A couple hundred million dollars in fees when Chipman was doing the league a favor by bailing out a dying Thrashers team? So instead of just handing over the keys, a couple of owners get little more rich and then put Winnipeg in a tough financial position right off the bat. The Jets have never been a cap spending team since re-entering the league. The league is short sighted.
@Enoch Root. TV contracts are for a long time and mostly regionally covered, so Buffalo icing a poor team has little bearing on the national coverage. Id argue that the NHL has had the worst national coverage contracts compared to the other big 3 during the last 10 years but has produced some of the healthiest parity, as indicated by the variance and spread between playoff and non-playoff teams.