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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
The risk for the NHL is that it becomes like the WNBA - decades of red ink that you can't kill off because of optics. And in the end, you/we will wind up paying for it through higher NHL ticket prices.
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Not only that, if they go down the WNBA route somewhere down the line someone will go off and make insane arguments about gender pay equity like somehow Hilary Knight should make the same percentage of league revenues as Conner McDavid despite a complete ignorance of the discrepancy of costs as a percentage of league revenue and simple profitability. If I was Bettman I would be very careful about setting up such a league, and maybe insist that participation is as a sponsor and have Hockey Canada / Hockey USA actually own and operate the league so when the inevitable insanity is suggested there's no legal line of sight to the operations of the NHL.
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