If the team salaries were in the 20-30 mil range. NHL owners could have cheaper tickets and make money and maintain a healthy league with extra money to grow the game.
instead the salaries to whatever end always get driven up and many are left behind.
Hockey ticket prices are simply outrageous in most cities. Even mine. Our expensive tickets are 40 bucks for the last row. That is stupid high for a sport that plays 82 games per year.
the NHL business model is stupid, it is just a better way of doing business then say Baseball.
but overall they are way off. They should be expanding the empire at the cost of profit now to play catchup.
spending 100 million of the revenue on taking the game to new kids per year will pay off huge dividends.but the current players have no stake in that scenario
Wow... I don't know what to say...
Do you really think that if a team can sellout an arena with high prices, that they would rather lower the prices and lower their revenue???
If the players had lower salaries, all it would change is that owners would be pocketing more money. Simple supply and demand! The prices have nothing to do with the cost, if 20,000 people are willing to pay $100 for tickets, then 20,000 tickets will be sold for $100! Why would they sell them for anything less, it's not as if they can magically expand the arena capacity, supply is fixed.
If you want lower ticket prices, people will have to stop going to games. Look at Florida, you can get 2-for-1 tickets, you can name your own price on season tickets, you can get a refund if you are not satisfied, last year you could get free tickets with a Florida driver's licence... Why? Because demand for tickets is that low, not because players in Florida play for free.