The four conference plan would have had greater support if the NHL added two new teams. The NHLPA rejected the plan as they were given little information about it.
Below is a very good article on why revenue sharing is essential in the next CBA between the NHL and the NHLPA. 7 out of the 9 teams in the Western and Southern markets are losing money. Either those teams should get more revenue sharing money or the franchise should move to a better market, such as Quebec or Hamilton, Ontario.http://bleacherreport.com/articles/14412…
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Did Nhl Owners Have A Secret Plan To Contract Two Teams Last Year With Its Four Conference Plan?
Posted on December 17, 2012.
There was no ulterior motive to the move. It made sense all around. It reduced travel and put Winnipeg in the West where it belonged.
As for the article unless you are Nick Gross most of us rarely use that name and good article in the same sentence.
A former cohort of Donald Fehr explained revenue sharing in a nut shell. Owner A says to Owner B, “If we can get the players to take ten dollars less I’ll give you five of my dollars, and we’ll both be better off.” True revenue sharing happens when the players take 10 dollars less and team B gets all twenty dollars.
that’s no secret, it’s just obvious to all but to the idiots running the league
A few things:
1) Nobody has seen actual NHL financials. Forbes magazine hasn’t, nor has any other publication. They’re kept private and only shown to the NHLPA for calculating the salary cap.
2) If anything, the relocation plan from December 2011 means the long-term goal is a 32-team league (there’s an 18,000 seat arena being built in Markham, Ontario which is in the GTA which would be your solution for a second Southern Ontario team).
3) Bleacher Report has been repeatedly outed for every deadly sin of journalism (their “writers” are essentially bloggers who don’t go through the basic processes of fact checking or research). I promise you that they have zero clue about NHL financials (understand that in many cases the team is being largely used as a tax shelter for other investments). One example- everyone says Florida is losing money. They aren’t. The Panthers have a sweetheart lease deal with the city of Sunrise and actually do very well financially.