2024 Sportico NHL franchise valuations

[LadyStanley]

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NHL Franchise Valuations Ranking List: From Maple Leafs to Blue Jackets

Check out Sportico's full NHL team values ranking list, from the Maple Leafs to the Blue Jackets.

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Toronto top at $3.66b. Columbus bottom at $1.06b.

To derive the fair market value of the 32 NHL franchises, Sportico calculated each team’s revenue, relying on publicly available information and financial records—as well as interviews with those knowledgeable of team finances, including eight sports bankers and lawyers who actively work on NHL transactions. In the interest of accuracy, we traded candor for anonymity. This information was vetted with multiple team owners, team financial and operating officers, media relations personnel and former team executives, as well as industry experts and sports-focused economists.

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[LadyStanley]

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Analysis

 

[LadyStanley]

Arizona -> Utah = 75% increase in value.

 

[Bixby Snyder]

Winnipeg at 31, clearly not as profitable a franchise as some here claim it to be.

 

[CaptainUgly]

Winnipeg at 31, clearly not as profitable a franchise as some here claim it to be.

CSB?

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Always have to take these valuations with a few million grains of sand, but pumping the tires of franchise values this past decade is a big reason why Bettman is untouchable.

 

[S E P H]

I still think most of the top 10 teams are at least half of the value they would truly go for IMHO. If Toronto is sold, I would reckon it would go for 6-7 billion.

 

[StreetHawk]

Every team pretty much increased by 20-40%. Remember this when it comes to arenas needing replacement and the team asking for gov funds.

 

[Bixby Snyder]

CSB?

That's right.

 

[TheLegend]

Arizona -> Utah = 75% increase in value.

When you pay $1.2 billion for them..... yeah.... the value is going to go up.

 

[TheLegend]

Winnipeg at 31, clearly not as profitable a franchise as some here claim it to be.

But their value went from $170 million to over a billion in just 11-12 years.

So if TNSE were to sell they're still getting one hell of an ROI.

 

[End on a Hinote]

Winnipeg at 31, clearly not as profitable a franchise as some here claim it to be.

Second least profitable =/= Not profitable

 

[Bixby Snyder]

Second least profitable =/= Not profitable

Would you be saying that if it was a sunbelt team at #31? A while back I said that every team was profitable or at least in a position to be profitable and all I got was ROFL emojis, good to see you've come over my side on this issue.

BTW I did not make the claim the Jets weren't profitable just pointed out what was clearly factual. Also Winnipeg along with Ottawa, 2 teams in the country that eats, breaths, sleeps, jerks it to hockey is behind every single sunbelt franchise, do with that what you will.

 

[End on a Hinote]

Would you be saying that if it was a sunbelt team at #31?

Yes.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

 

[blueandgoldguy]

Would you be saying that if it was a sunbelt team at #31? A while back I said that every team was profitable or at least in a position to be profitable and all I got was ROFL emojis, good to see you've come over my side on this issue.

BTW I did not make the claim the Jets weren't profitable just pointed out what was clearly factual. Also Winnipeg along with Ottawa, 2 teams in the country that eats, breaths, sleeps, jerks it to hockey is behind every single sunbelt franchise, do with that what you will.

The value of teams isn't based on profit alone. It's also based on market size among other factors. Hope that helps.!

 

[blueandgoldguy]

MLB isn't in an envious spot. We have the fallout of recent regional TV deals, most of the outside interest in the sport exists in poor third world countries which lessens potential out-of-country revenue sources, and the 2 first world countries (Japan and South Korea) where interest in the sport is high are demographic time bombs.

 

[Takuto Maruki]

MLB isn't in an envious spot. We have the fallout of recent regional TV deals, most of the outside interest in the sport exists in poor third world countries which lessens potential out-of-country revenue sources, and the 2 first world countries (Japan and South Korea) where interest in the sport is high are demographic time bombs.

lol at that last line. What realistically is going to replace baseball in South Korea or Japan as the top sport, even with demographics shifting rapidly? Soccer in SK is a joke that will continue being a joke as long as the chaebol infested factions of the KFA hold the cards, and will play second fiddle to J.League as a feeder system for the second class of European clubs...and J.League isn't ever going to rise above that moniker of being a cheap feeder system as long as they hold the position of the best soccer league in Asia.

The fact of the matter is that in SK and Japan, baseball is king, and probably always will be.

 

[blueandgoldguy]

lol at that last line. What realistically is going to replace baseball in South Korea or Japan as the top sport, even with demographics shifting rapidly? Soccer in SK is a joke that will continue being a joke as long as the chaebol infested factions of the KFA hold the cards, and will play second fiddle to J.League as a feeder system for the second class of European clubs...and J.League isn't ever going to rise above that moniker of being a cheap feeder system as long as they hold the position of the best soccer league in Asia.

The fact of the matter is that in SK and Japan, baseball is king, and probably always will be.

lol at yourself. I never said baseball will be replaced in those countries. Fewer people in the future means fewer people watching baseball, meaning less opportunities for international revenue (merch, international sponsorships, international tv deals, overseas games). South Korea has a birthrate of 0.63. The population of the country will likely decline by 50% within 4 decades unless there are substantial changes to the immigration policies and workplace culture.