Whether it’s next year or five years from now, the Nashville Predators will be leaving Tennessee. It’s just a matter of time after Craig Leopold conceded defeat by selling the team to Jim Balsillie. There’s no other conclusion after Leopold made this concession:
“I have come to the conclusion that I cannot make it work here. […]
For NHL clubs that enjoy playoff success, one of the dividends is ticket revenue flowing in the door at a time when you don’t have to pay your players. The Ottawa Business Journal has a good story looking at how the Ottawa Senators are cashing in now that they’ve advanced to the Stanley Cup final. […]
In the wake of the Nashville Predators’s successful 2006/07 season, the team and owner, Craig Leipold, announced this week they have entered into a multi-year naming rights agreement with Sommet Group, which will see the name of the team’s arena become known as “The Sommet Center”. The partnership gives Sommet Group prominent signage inside and […]
Nothing like a winning hockey team and the NHL’s best player to get fans excited about a team’s prospects. The Pittsburgh Penguins are reaping the benefits as season ticket sales have jumped a staggering 60% over last year. “Full-season ticket sales are up 60 percent over this past season,” Penguins vice president of communications Tom […]
Let’s be honest here: the NHL as a business has been spinning its wheels in the U.S. for years. You’ve got no national television contract and a half dozen teams struggling in artificial markets (Atlanta, Nashville, Florida, Tampa Bay, Phoenix, Columbus). Yet the NHL continues to insist it’s only a matter of time before the […]
With the first round of the playoffs now firmly behind us, I thought an update would be interesting on how teams are faring financially from making it to the post-season. This is based on my analysis, The Value of Making The Playoffs, previously posted here.
As a reminder, while previous analysis was a back-of-the-envelope exercise, it […]
Looks like the fans masquerading as empty seats in New Jersey are also alive and well in Detroit as well judging by the attendance during Game #1 of the conference semi-final against San Jose. Is there a trend here? Does this suggest that once hockey fans in the U.S. have seen a Stanley Cup […]
Are hockey fans in New Jersey bored with the team’s success and the fact the Deveils have won three Stanley Cups? You’d think they were suffering from a bad case of fan fatigue given there were several thousand empty seats for last night’s conference semi-final game against the Ottawa Senators. Maybe tickets are too expensive? […]
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Written by Jeanne Dupuis [email] for b5media.
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