The league is (or should I say was) doing great and revenues were sky high. Doesn't mean there's no issues to be fixed though. Like you said 50/50 should be standard split and yet we got a huge fight over that split. Hardly NHL's, and only NHL's fault.
Yes, they should re-evaluate those too. But just last year Atlanta moved to Winnipeg so clearly they've been doing that. Islanders moving to Brooklyn also helps a lot. Phoenix should have moved a long time ago though, I'm not going to defend on how that situations been handled. Beyond that I don't think any of the struggling markets should be relocated. I think hockey has its place in Nashville, Columbus, St.Louis etc. Those teams should be much better off with even just going to 50/50 split. Florida has a sweet arena deal which guarantees that they'll stay there a long time and will do just fine.
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Of course he's going to say that. In reality there are too many teams struggling to be self-sufficient. And that is the problem here. The previous cap & floor system with 57% of revenue going to the overall cap is not sustainable and was clearly a mistake from the previous lockout. Last season $64m ceiling, $48m floor, what did it start out at? $39m ceiling, $23m floor ( a FIXED spread of $16m). The fixed spread was a boneheaded decision and is a result of lawyers negotiating these systems, they're trained to argue a system, not for designing one. Every team at the floor equals $1.44B. HRR was $3.3B so thats 44%. Every team at the ceiling would be at 58%. Most teams are close to the ceiling hence the problem currently. Salaries are artificially set to the teams closer to the ceiling but all markets are not equal.