[Bleeding Red]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

Tickets could be half of leaf's and still not be at the bottom of the league. This data is a few years old but the leafs were almost double league average. https://www.statista.com/statistics/...-team-in-2010/

That's info is a decade old?!? I'm saying they won't be able to get premium prices at all. A new GTA team would have to have an average ticket price in the bottom half of the league.

Local TV and radio rights would absolutely have value - they're hockey in Canada. They would have way more value than many sunbelt teams.

They have next to no value. The Laffs almost pulled out of radio when their last contract expired. Far fewer people will watch a new team than will watch the Laffs. Any rights they sell will be offset by the penalty they have to pay to the Laffs.

I assumed MLSE would own the team, but even if not the MLSE seat licenses are team specific. Existing PSL holders wouldn't necessarily get the new tickets. Selling new PSLs in a paid for arena could be hugely profitable.

I think those licenses are arena based, not team based. You pay the license for the seat and have first right of refusal to tix for your seat to any event in the arena. Same for the corporate boxes.

MLSE likely has zero interest in a second GTA team. Between the Laffs, Raptors, and concerts how many nights are dark? Looks like about 10 a month.

They have enough trouble with TOFC, the Argos, and the Marlies.