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Originally Posted by troutman
The revenues for Champions League soccer are astronomical. If hockey could do even 5% of that business, it is still enormous.
http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionslea...d=2117799.html
The 32 teams that competed in the UEFA Champions League shared €904m in payments from UEFA in 2013/14, matching the record outlay from the previous season. |
Sure, but that is over 125 games and a great many stops and starts to the regular club season to fit it in.
Five percent of that business is only about €45m, or US$56m.
There is zero chance the NHL would view that as anything but harmful to its business, particularly since it would only get a small percentage of that small pie. And it would have to halt its season at times to fit it in. AND it would have to shorten the season to fit it in. And on top of that, only the qualifying teams would get the revenue, but everybody in the NHL would have to pay as a result of any increase in the salary cap and floor.
The NHL would have to realize several hundred million dollars in revenue out of such a format before it would even consider it.