The NHL season is officially cancelled.
It would have ended sooner had they decided to do a more thorough job of figuring out why they should have a season.
Money, in the 2003-2004 season the NHL and it's teams had over 2 billion in profit and that was with 20 teams losing money. The average player salary was $1.86 million a year. (credit) If they would have seen how greedy they really are, perhaps they would have salvaged the season earlier. They didn't, they saw more money signs and therefore lost not only their money, but forfeited payments to those working the lower jobs in the league including arena workers and zamboni drivers. I don't believe they make close to a million a year.
Interest, Noone is interested. ESPN's replacement programming has garnered double the ratings that hockey drew. Even Arena Football is getting better ratings than Hockey. In a recent Yahoo! Sports poll, out of 147,963 votes, %35 percent had on opinion on if Hockey came back, the other %65 Didn't care, that is 95,000+.
I for one am glad I won't have to see hockey highlights this year. Although seeing the last 2 weeks of non-stop 'is it over?' coverage makes me want to rethink that.
At least College Basketball is heating up and March Madness is right around the corner.
- Posted by Rick at February 16, 2005 02:19 PM
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