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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
^ The NHL already sold the pre-season for good money. $5.6 billion from Rogers alone.
You're attempting to use an emotional appeal as a counter to a hard business decision. The number of people that watched the final in Sochi is, frankly, irrelevant, because none of that went toward the NHL's business. Even in terms of residual effects, the league by now has an excellent idea on how much Olympic hype impacts ratings for its own games, and for how long. It knows what impact it has on merchandise sales and ticket sales and all the rest.
And the NHL thinks the deal, as structured, is a bad one. That gives us an indication of what the direct impacts for the NHL are.
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Agree with your second paragraph but not sure the first paragraph is irrelevant to the NHL's decision. As we see in the arena debate - its about the NHL getting what it feels it deserves rather than losing or making money on going. The NHL is willing to throw away a million if it think it should get two.