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Originally Posted by VilleN
If the league can shut down for a year due to a lockout, how is this any different revenue-wise? Why is this so much harder for teams to bear? So far, they've only missed about 15% of the regular season and managed to cobble together playoffs. Surely they can miss next season, or have an abbreviated season and be fine.
Or is the bigger issue (compounding issue) that all of these stadiums aren't holding any events at all?
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This time you have players who still want to be paid and a valid labour agreement in place. In the lockouts there was no labour agreement and enough players were willing to forego salaries to get a better deal.