Everything i could find, teams still do revenue sharing in the NHL. And you do realize that financial comes from more places then just tickets right? It's odd but Chicago being better with there financials helps teams like Arizona who in there entire existence has not had 1 season of making money, does not have an actual NHL rink but some how if they sold today would be able to ask for 635 million for the team. Which has gone up by about 500 million since the entire bankruptcy court with blackberry sale.
The only thing owners care about is the team valuations, and those go up by tv deals, sponsorships, merchandise sales, tv viewers.
It's just funny to me that whenever the term generational talent prospects get used there are pretty common teams they go to. Crosby to Pittsburgh a team going through bankruptcy that needed something yo save it. McDavid to Edmonton storied Canadian market that was in termoil. Mathews to the biggest/2nd biggest Canadian market that hasn't won in forever. MacKinnon to Colorado, and now Bedard to Chicago.