I recently heard Paul McGannon from NHL21 on some sports show from a guy’s garage. I only heard part of it because, well, the Pens-Habs were on and I’ve heard his shtick…over and over and over again…for years.
But, I did hear the guys ask McGannon about a current NHL owner moving is team to KC. Let me set something straight.
NO CURRENT OWNER IS GOING TO MOVE A TEAM FROM HIS CURRENT MARKET TO KC!!! It just won’t happen. There is no precedent of this happening in the NHL…ever
(well, OK, except Norm Green moving the Stars, but he was moving to a top 10 TV market)
Now, the NHL is selling a team, but are they a motivated seller.
Why is NHL so eager to sell Coyotes?
Think about this. Let’s say you make, I don’t know, $50K.
And, someone says to you, I’ll pay you $50K for next year and your salary is not contingent on performance. Plus, if after that year you don’t like it here, you can leave.
Would you be motivated to do your job? Perhaps. But, not nearly as much as you would be if you were fully vested in the process. If you knew you could make $60K if you worked real hard, you probably would.
Bizarre. I’m just not sure why the City of Glendale, who is negotiating a lease with potential owners of the Coyotes has basically told the NHL, “We don’t care what you do, sell the team, keep operating them or continue this auction into next year, we’ll support you, even financially. You could have zero sales people on the streets hocking tickets, you could have Joe Leisure on ads for tickets, we don’t care, we’ll still give you money to cover your losses.”
If you follow this NHL ownership/Gary Bettman-cartel league very closely it is just bizarre.
Here a good one:
Orange jumpsuit DelBiaggio gets a free pass to own an NHL team whenever he’s ready.
CEO of RIM, you can’t play with us.
Oh well, the playoffs have been exciting…
