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    DwightShrute
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    ya let's not play hockey this season - idiots!

    NEWS RELEASE
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 12, 2012

    NHL POSTS RECORD REVENUE & GROWTH ACROSS MULTIPLE BUSINESS

    PLATFORMS FOR THE SEVENTH CONSECUTIVE SEASON

    NHL Teams Played to 95.6% Capacity, GameCenter LIVE Subscriptions Up 93%,
    Twitter Followers Up 96%, and NHL Mobile Web Page Views Up 81%
    NEW YORK (April 12, 2012) – The NHL is on pace for its seventh consecutive
    year of record total revenue. The League is projected to bring in more than $3.2 billion
    by the end of the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs. NHL Enterprises’ (League/national
    business minus broadcasting) revenue is forecasted to increase by 18 percent. This
    represents a growth of 195 percent over the 2003-04 season.
    Driven by large-scale events, a deeper portfolio of NHL content being offered
    through more platforms than ever before and unprecedented support from corporate and
    television partners, the 2011-12 regular season has broken records in multiple business
    areas including ratings, traffic to NHL.com, subscriptions to NHL GameCenter LIVE,
    engagement through Social Networks and consumer product sales.
    "Thanks to another season of down-to-the-wire competition on the ice and media
    partners and sponsors eager to engage with our fans in new ways, we were able to once
    again re-write the record book for business success," said NHL Chief Operating Officer
    John Collins. "And even with all the growth we've experienced the past six years, we all
    agree the best is yet to come."
    Below are highlights of the League’s success for the 2011-12 regular-season
    across its various businesses:
    Revenue
    • The NHL saw its seventh consecutive year of record revenue, with a projection of
    more than $3.2 billion by the end of the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs
    • NHL Enterprises revenue is forecasted to increase by 18 percent over last year,
    a total growth of 195 percent over the 2003-04 season.
    NHL.com
    • Average Daily Unique Visitors increased for the sixth consecutive season, and is
    up 12 percent over last season.
    • Video Starts increased by 18 percent over last season.
    • Visits to NHL.com were up 12 percent, and Page Views were up 9 percent.
    • NHL.com set a single-day record for Video Starts on Sunday, January 29th (day
    after the 2012 Molson Canadian NHL All-Star Skills Competition) - besting the
    previous record by 20 percent.
    • As part of a larger, cross-media strategy to better activate international fans of
    the NHL, the League has created the most relevant, country-specific NHL media
    experience for the Web by introducing NHL websites in Czech, Finnish, German,
    Russian, Slovak and Swedish at the start of the 2011-12 season. The League
    also launched an official website published in French (LNH.com) to serve the
    NHL’s passionate Francophone fanbase as a complement to the Englishlanguage
    NHL.com.
    NHL GameCenter LIVE

    MUCH MORE --------- http://nohockeylockout.com/docs/NHL_...lar_Season.pdf

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    Redman3693
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    Great article on the incompetence of both sides. There is a huge pile of $$$ to be made if the children could just learn to play nice in the sandbox.

    IMHO, this is a classic example of a symbiotic relationship - one needs the other to survive. If there was anyone with common sense and foresight, the deal would have already been done. Instead, all that we have is unmitigated greed from both sides.

    Here's how I would split the pie:
    Players 45%
    Owners 45%
    Development & support of minor leagues in the US 5%
    Development & support of minor leagues in Canada 5%

    I realize that the development #'s may need some tweaking, but wanted to throw it in because if you want to grow the game, you've got to have players. Assigning specific amounts for development in current broadcast markets will increase a shallow talent pool. Also, it will increase viewers as most folks love to cheer on on their own countries athletes. This is no knock on European talent as most of them come to North America to hone their skills and adopt our way of life & style of hockey. They will benefit from this $$$ infusion as well.

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