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Old 05-12-2020, 07:40 PM   #584
powderjunkie
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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton View Post
Except this is not the case in the NHL. Regional TV deals are a tiny, tiny, tiny revenue source. The money comes from national TV which is heavily weighted on playoff games, Bettaman himself said this and was discussed weeks/ pages ago.

This was always my assumption, too. But, it is one of the only plausible explanations for publicly musing the idea of 31 teams completing the reg season (the other explanations I can see are incompetence/tone deafness, or as an extreme initial anchor point to make their eventual plan seem mire reasonable).


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