If the entertainment cannot pay for it's own venue, then why is the entertainment being paid so much money? Money that it is so obviously not worth.
The taxpayer is subsidizing player salaries, by way of paying for the venue.
Cut ~35% from every NHL team's roster payroll, and the owners could buy themselves new arenas every 20 years. The owners will never fight this battle though, because it'd take multiple lockouts to get there, with a lot of pain along the way... so why not just continue over-paying the players, and sticking taxpayers with the arena debt? Everyone's happy (except the taxpayer).
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