Yup. The main reason the owners want a ticket tax is that it doesn't count as hockey-related revenue and they don't have to spend half of it on player salaries. If it did count as HRR, it would effectively double the cost for whatever percentage of the building was financed by that method. Either way, the money is coming out of their pockets, because they're already charging as much for tickets as the market will bear.
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