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Originally Posted by suburbanite
I have no energy left to go into another Lakelocker post. So much complaining about how things "ought to be" as opposed to coming up with a cohesive strategy that addresses how things "actually are".
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Ironic you think I should be "coming up with a cohesive strategy" while you simultaneously claiming I'm confusing what is with what ought to be.
This is well past the point of "intervention". The NHL is fucked, the best case scenario is something along the lines that it suffers such a horrid economic circumstances that safe bet Canadian markets get embraced.
If the American TV contract bombs out, all hope logically should be placed on the Rogers contract. At that point and time they should be doing everything they can to keep the Canadian viewers happy.
The Canadian division might of been a great way of pissing through the ownership nonsense but that isn't gonna happen at this point.
Regardless I'm tired of this.
The way that things ought to be is exactly how it is, the Americans say fuck you to Canadian fans/markets, and the non submissive Canadians say fuck you back.
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Originally Posted by suburbanite
I'd love to hear some real concrete ideas on how professional hockey in Canada should be handled if the NHL is just so stupid for not putting a team in every city from Regina to St. Johns.
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There's no solution the NHL has monopolized Canadian sports. It isn't any more complicated than that. They control virtually everything in Canadian Hockey.
I'm not asking to change things, I'm asking people to have the integrity to admit the situation.
The NHL has hijacked sporting in this country.
The nonsensical idea that Gary Bettman has made the NHL richer is complete nonsense. Virtually everywhere on the planet has experienced a massive economic boom in spectator sports.
The worst affect is they've created an environment where most of the television revenue is generated by people who can't goto a bloody game. Either because the reach of the league is too limited our markets like toronto are bottlenecking attendance figures.
I'm not interested in viewing this in nationalistic terms. We live in a market that has fallen victim to an obvious monopoly. If a hockey team is just a franchise I'm tired of having 7 mcdonalds in the country, because the league has worked out a scheme where they can charge 50 buck a burger.
My initial interest in sports is in the business of sports. I"m not complaining that those greedy billionaires are out to get us. I"m complaining their monopolistic practices have allowed them to short our market. I'm a huge proponent in free markets i.e. where monopolistic practices are not tolerated.