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Originally Posted by 868904
Ticket sales are really over-rated anyways. The real money is in TV, and the reason why the NHL wants Seattle so bad (even though they say they don't) is because it is such a huge TV market on the west coast.
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The NHL is still largely a gate-driven league. National TV rights in the U.S. still sell for a pittance, and regional rights are really valuable only in traditional hockey markets.
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