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Originally Posted by powderjunkie

LOL. What makes you think the NHL thinks it can get NFL deals?

CAD National deal is worth $350-400M USD per year depending on exchange rate; we'll use the lower rate and say avg. $50M per team (though of course TOR/MTL is the real $$).

New US Deal is $400M, let's be generous and say the other package bumps to $600M USD per year. For 25 teams, that's $24M per team per year (of course NYR, PHI, BOS, CHI, DET, LAK are the real $$$).

Spoiler!

Now let's be more speculative...just spitballing:

For Canada, let's say:
$120M TOR
$80M MTL
$40M VAN
$30M ea EDM, CGY, OTT, WPG

that rounds up to $360M USD per year. close enough to make round numbers.


$80M NYR
$40M ea PHI, BOS, CHI, DET, LAK ($200)
$20M ea SEA, SJ, ANA, VGK, COL, DAL, MIN, STL, NAS, TBL, WAS, PIT, NJD, NYI, BUF ($300M)
$5M ea (aka rounding error) ARI, CAR, FLA, CBJ

US deal is harder to break down...if anything the 2nd tier and a few of the superstar teams (PIT, WAS) are probably worth more, and the other 'average' teams are worth less.

I think you'd have to get pretty screwy to find a way to find the 4 weakest Canadian teams generating less TV rights value than 15-17 of the US teams.

I am not sure that Canada losing one of the small markets makes that much of an impact on a TV deal. There would still enough games to fill the air waves. If one small market Canadian market makes a big difference, then they are stupid to not have put a team back in Quebec City.

The NHL is all about the future. Do the {insert team here} have a much better future if they were relocated here {insert city here}? If so, I doubt anyone tries too hard to stop it if that was the will of the owners.