CNBC - Habs valued at 3 Billion

Team_Spirit

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What's everyone problem today? ~7 bad takes in 1 page I won't even bother.

Haters gon hate

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If Molson sold the team would he ever find a local buyer at 3B US (4.2B can)

They inflate the value so they can take bigger loans against the asset. Common practice, unless you are a running for president, then they fine you a few billion for doing it.
 
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Kimota

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Value in pro sport, esp. the NHL is pure bullshit. The NHL cannot get a proper TV deal and yet it cost a Billion to get an expansion franchise in Salt Lake City. Yea yea we know what you're doing, Gary.
 
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Redux91

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Molson isn't the sole owner of the Habs, is he?
As far as I can find
It says Geoff And his 2 brothers (Andrew and Justin) own the team
But trying to find the %'s
It looks like :
"The sale would include Gillett's 80.1-per cent interest in the team and 100 per cent stake in the Bell Centre and event promotion company(Evenko)"

But also :
"Now known as Molson-Coors, the company stayed on as a minority owner of the club, with a 19.9 per cent share, while Gillett owned 80.1 per cent before the sale"

But also, lol
That Andlauer guy who just bought the Sens had 10% of the team at some point
Which the Molsons bought back for a big chunk of change

SO
as far I can tell
Molsons own 100% of the team.
 

BLONG7

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Gillette made some nice cash in buying (2001) and re-selling (2009) the Canadiens to Molson, but Molson's investment of 575 million to buy back the Canadiens in 2009 has really paid off.
This....................is why the owners, love Gary Bettman.

The Rich, get Richer!!

Wich is very strange cuz the Habs finished 2nd 4th and 2nd league wise in his first 3 years
The team he inherited eh.................then as he tinkered, well, we all know what happened.......bottom of the barrell.
CP31 made Bergevin a fortune.
 

nhlfan9191

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That's precisely how he got it, he wouldn't pay anything to level the team up, and would only find cheap bottom 6ers who weren't even clear upgrades most times.
The first time the fans really started to question Bergevin was the 2015 trade deadline when he acquired Flynn and Mitchell, when we badly needed scoring help, not just at center but on the wing as well, with Subban and Markov playing great defensively and Price have a historical season. I can still remember the rift between management and the fanbase at that moment. The honeymoon period was over and all the praise he got for the Vanek trade wasn’t earning him brownie points anymore. The 15/16 season when the team that crashed in shocking fashion during the second half of the season was when he truly lost the fanbase. He never regained anyone’s trust after that.
 
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CharleyHorse

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Three years in a lot of people were already soured on Bergevin. Pretty sure the Bargainbin nickname was around by then...
When did the T’esRien - Subban tug of war reach its breaking point? When BargainBin sided with his coach instead of his player, and ultimately traded Subban, things started to go south in a big way for Marc get-in-the-playoffs-and-anything-could-happen BargainBin. Was that year three?
 

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He did trade for Vanek TDL 2014 tho

Who he only got at the very last second because he was the best bad trade of a bunch of trades. There was no real strategy to it. Yeah, nice, it was worth it, but the guy would miss the boat on a bunch of potential players while we were hot because he'd hold unto 1sts like his life depended on it. Total miser of a GM who flunked us because of it.

The first time the fans really started to question Bergevin was the 2015 trade deadline when he acquired Flynn and Mitchell, when we badly needed scoring help, not just at center but on the wing as well, with Subban and Markov playing great defensively and Price have a historical season. I can still remember the rift between management and the fanbase at that moment. The honeymoon period was over and all the praise he got for the Vanek trade wasn’t earning him brownie points anymore. The 15/16 season when the team that crashed in shocking fashion during the second half of the season was when he truly lost the fanbase. He never regained anyone’s trust after that.

Good recap. He also got Petry and it still felt like a missed opportunity, imagine that. That's how bad we needed forwards. The year after, not trading for a genuine goalie when Price went down and we were 1st in the league was wild. Condon/Scrivens. Disaster class.
 
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SOLR

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Molson isn't the sole owner of the Habs, is he?

BCE the motherload of a system that redistributes debt in wealth for the rich, while making Canadians pay the absolute highest fees in the world for internet connections.

I'm still wondering how a company with a credit rating near bankruptcy isn't forced by the state to cut the dividend and cut network prices significantly for the 98% of Canadians that needs it.

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Guy Larose

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I love watching Michkov , he's a beast , why so salty?
Not salty at all. I'm not the one that keeps bringing him up. We didn't get him, time to get over it and stop bringing him up all the time. That poster started with the condescending posts and I'm not going to sit here and let some whiny little bitch just say whatever he wants to me is all. Too many keyboard warriors on this site.
 
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