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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The NHL is a $5B business. Do you think the teams all act entirely independently with respect to marketing and pricing research.
Of course each team has to set their own ticket prices, but they aren't doing that blind.
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The NHL is not a single business so adding up all the revenues of each team means little. It operates more as single industry. The teams compete against each other, separate financial statements, separate tax returns.
Each team owns its hockey operations, ticket sales, marketing, back office, arena negotiations and operations and most everything else.
Go to an NHL game in different arenas and it’s a very different experience. From cost to in game experience.
I didn’t say the league does nothing or teams are running “blind”. Those are your words. But it is very obvious teams have near total autonomy on most parts of their operation.