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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Legitimate question - how does the having a money losing hockey team help earn revenue for non-hockey events?
Usually for other events - the arena either buys the show (basically guaranteed funds to the show) or they get a tiny sliver of the profits after the promoter/arena factor in their costs (equipment, labour, entertainer cost, etc).
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SSE (Panthers ownership group) has full control of the arena, much like the Flames today, so they make all the money from the events, concessions, etc. at the arena. Even accounting for the Panthers yearly loss, SSE still makes around $30m per year. SSE needs the panthers to continue this deal, without the money losing hockey team, they wouldn't be able to run events there.
The hilarious part in all this, is because the Panthers keep losing money, they convinced Broward County to give them an $86m bailout package to stay in Florida till 2028, but they can opt out of the lease extension 2023 if they can show a loss of over $100m between 2016 and 2022. All while SSE is profitable.
So yea, they aren't going anywhere for the next couple of years.