2024-2025 Around The League Part 2
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Wood will be close to the league minimum soon. Hopefully people stop complaining about that contract now.
Also, LoC's contract looking like a super steal.
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We need Wood as well for size and toughness and the team still needs more
Bring back the roaring 20,'s line
When's the last time Wood's played with any sort of toughness? He just kinda wanders around on the ice aimlessly. Colton is roughly the same.
And Jazz--I know it was because the team moved there, but I don't equate Salt Lake City with Jazz any more than I think of lakes when I think of L.A.
Bednar liked their game against the Isles. I liked Drury's game, Wood is a meat stick, and 4x4 did nothing. 1 f***in shot in 1430 TOI -2 on the night. He had 6 hits though, you know what they say about that.
I am not sure what impressed Bednar, it's not the 4th line.
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I thought it was the rich canadian teams keeping the sunbelt teams afloat? I guess to be fair he says some lol *cough Winnipeg*
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Sports franchises should only be sold to people/organizations who are willing to lose massive amounts of money. f*** anyone who's "trying to run a business" and make a profit using a sports team. If you do it like that, you are doing it wrong.
The richest football clubs in the world lose money all the time. They also win.
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I will add in the caveat that of course ideally the teams are community owned, like in Germany with the 51% rule, or something like that. But if a billionaire wants to attach his name to a sports team, he better do it as a hobby and realize he is expected to lose money on it.
Like the previous Arizona owner Meruelo, who's sole reason for owning that team was to expand his business into casinos and whatnot (which by Arizona law, required him to own a sports team). That's on the opposite end of the scale, not even expecting to run a sports team for profit, but to just use it as a tool for your other business ventures.
Sports franchises used to be run by organizations who want to profit off of developing real estate near the arena.
Nowadays is it all just billionaires playing with teams the way we would with Legos?
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Important part I guess is that winning should be prioritized over profit/cost cutting. Sadly that's not always or even usually the case.
Well, that's not the problem. I don't think True North is all that concerned about losing money, if they were they would never have backed up the money truck to their core players, they'd have gone cheap AF a while ago.
The issue is that sports teams (NHL teams especially) are dependent on corporate involvement, and Winnipeg doesn't really have many, if any huge conglomerates in town. Frankly I don't think this would be such an issue if a halfway-competent commissioner had been in charge of the league these past few decades. And yes, I know, revenues have risen substantially under Bettman, but IMO a trained goddamn monkey could've done it at the rate he has, anyone with even modicum of brainpower would've had the sport grow to much more exponential levels, a REALLY smart person would've had them rolling in cash that possibly could've rivaled even the NBA and MLB (probably not the NFL though).
I also don't think Bettman gives one f*** about any of the Canadian teams. I guarantee you he was not happy about the Thrashers moving to Winnipeg, but he didn't have much choice in the matter.
I'd argue the owners of the Buffalo Sabres and Boston Bruins are WAY more problematic than the guys running the Winnipeg Jets. Those are good owners. The other two are not. And as much success as the Avs have had, KSE has some substantial flaws as well.
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I get it. I think they've said that the owner of the Jets is basically the richest man in Canada. So theoretically, no issues there. But surely there is a reason why it was a topic last year, their attendance and revenue.
That should be obvious. The only way Quebec ever gets another team is there is another relocation scenario that is unfolding in a rapid schedule. A few years ago I would've said the Florida Panthers, but not now I guess...
Frankly, I could see Toronto getting another team before Quebec gets another one lmao.
Again, it's the lack of support from the corporate sector that's hurting Winnipeg, there just aren't companies buying huge blocks of seats and luxury boxes, sponsor partnerships, etc. Doesn't matter how rich the owner is, an NHL team that doesn't get that kind of support is almost completely dependent on gate revenues, and that's extremely chancy. Winnipeg was doing GREAT to start, but then attendance started to wane a bit, then the pandemic hit, and they've been struggling mightily ever since. And unlike the money-hemorrhaging mess that used to reside in Arizona, Bettman ain't bending over backwards to help them.
