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LightningStrikes said:
What I don’t get is that it looked like the league manually interfered here yet now “they” say it was a settings error?
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YouTube shenanigans happen all the time, so I'm not even phased to hear about this.

I'm surprised it was the actual NHL claiming their own videos. That's not always been a guarantee. YouTube creators have a very perilous existence. A single rule change can demonetize them, or bury their discoverability. I don't blame them for being skittish.

I don't think footage from a Canes-Rangers game played in 2022 really has much value at this point (or even the next day), so I'd say let them cook.
 
I'm going to say it. Keeping Chel off of PCs hurts HRR.

Madden and EAFC (FIFA) both get PC releases. NBA 2k gets a PC release, although that's from a different publisher.
 
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McDavid gooning it up in Edmonton: First an elbow to the face now a cross-check to the face (got a major for it).

Goonerov better step up!
 
Major4Boarding said:


Cool!
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Do we really know why league revenues are so high? EA hasn't even announced Chel for Switch 2 and PC. I don't think Nintendo has gotten an NHL game since maybe 2011. PC was the PS2 port of NHL 2009.


Allan Walsh is saying that the new national Canadian TV deal would be like 2x or 3x the current amount.

So the number of Canadians playing hockey drops (or doesn't really grow), the conventional TV ratings drop, and they get 2x the money?
 
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Felonious Python said:
Do we really know why league revenues are so high? EA hasn't even announced Chel for Switch 2 and PC. I don't think Nintendo has gotten an NHL game since maybe 2011. PC was the PS2 port of NHL 2009.


Allan Walsh is saying that the new national Canadian TV deal would be like 2x or 3x the current amount.

So the number of Canadians playing hockey drops (or doesn't really grow), the conventional TV ratings drop, and they get 2x the money?
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Viewership, Club evaluations, sponsorships (Team and in-Arena), and attendance are all up. The League set a record at $6.2B in revenue and 27 franchises had 94% or higher average attendance. Fun fact, and a bit of homerism, if the Lightning finish this season with sellouts, they will be at ~400 which is the longest in the League.

So it’s a bit front-loading, I imagine, along with the anticipation of the Canadian Broadcast contract as you mentioned.

Before anyone says moving the Yotes to Utah has anything to do with it, that’s not necessarily true. Moving to Utah will increase League revenue in the long run (duh), but the upcoming cap and revenue projects are done on previous season revenues. So always look at these numbers and determine they’re from the previous season, not the current.

There has even been chatter that the projected 2026-2027 cap may come in at $99M - $104M.
 

The 16-team USHL and USA Hockey have been alarmed over the number of players leaving the USHL for CHL teams, ever since the NCAA said that CHL players moving forward will retain their eligible to play U.S. college hockey.The USHL recently began charging CHL teams a $50K transfer fee to acquire a player who want to leave the USHL, the source said.
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I don't really see why USA Hockey is entitled to anything. If they want to keep their players, they need to beat the CHL in the marketplace of ideas.

The source also said USA Hockey officials do not want the Phantoms and Lumberjacks to leave the USHL because of the impact it would have on the U.S. National Team Development Program, which plays in the USHL and is based in Plymouth, Mich.
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What's going to end up happening is that they're going to have to work together, and make it end up so that US and Canadian players have to stay in their country (or US based CHL team) until they're 18.
 
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