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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
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.
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Teams compete against each other, but the NHL is very much a single entity and product, as well as being a collection of 32 individual entities, at the same time.
With respect to sales, marketing, market analytics, forecasting, and all macro-economic analysis and planning, it works very much as a single entity on macro items, and/or a group of related companies working in partnership, on others, depending on the situation. Of course they all also have ultimate autonomy to do their own thing, but that doesn't change the point being discussed.
This isn't really debatable, nor earth-shattering. If you think each team is mostly making their marketing and forecasting decisions independently, other than local-level items, well then we can just disagree and leave it there.
And really not sure what point you are trying to make. You don't think it's a $5B entity. Cool. Does that change the discussion at all?