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Canadian impact on Mariners Attendance
by John Long story short but I met a friend outside of Safeco on Tuesday night right around first pitch of the Mariners-Jays baseball game. He was running late so I was loitering around for about 15 minutes. I always knew that a lot of local Canadians would go check out the Jays when they […]
Lots of hurdles for Expansion but expanding in pairs is not one of them.
by Brad In 1978, the NHL’s Cleveland Barons merged with the Minnestoa North Stars, bringing the total number of teams in the NHL down from 18 to 17. The next year, four teams from the World Hockey Association were added to the league, bringing the number up to 21. For the next twelve seasons, the […]
Keep Calm and let them Carry On
The NHL has tried to figure out a solution for the Coyotes staying in Glendale for over 4 years. They obviously see something there that a lot of us hockey fans don’t see. It could be the 13th biggest TV Market, a rise in youth hockey, expected rebound in the housing market or maybe the […]
Potential Gate Revenues in KeyArena
Let me first say that I’ve always felt analyzing Arena Revenues on the success of a franchise is just part of the financial picture & can be shortsighted. Arena Revs are important and it is largely reported that NHL relies on their Arena Gate revenue much more than other professional sports leagues. My point about the Gate Revenues […]
Seattle is Plan B for Phoenix Coyotes: a crazy 5 days in NHL to Seattle news
Here is a summary of activity that went down over the last 5 days with links to the most important articles/stories. Wednesday June 12, 2013: Bettman and Daly triggered the chain of events with interviews saying that they could relocate the Phoenix Coyotes next season if the City of Glendale and the Renaissance Group. The Renaissance […]
More on the City of Glendale Arena RFP
Today I saw this article in the Phoenix Business Journal about the RFP to run the Glendale Arena. It is fairly accurate article and seems to have a bunch of inner-web folks quoting the 5 Million in loses per year as evidence to move the Coyotes. In an effort to understand the business a little better I […]
RFP for Glendale’s Jobing.com Arena
Another bit of news that came out yesterday was the jobing.com Arena RFP went out yesterday. I didn’t want to post it until I read through the entire RFP. Here are some interesting things in it: RFP submissions are due 5/24/13 A requirement is that the Manager must have experience running an arena with an NBA […]
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