Yakupov signed!

Yakupov signed!
- BigDre

Go Oilers, Go!!!

Yes. They should sell and get an AHL team.

I have a real problem with the NHL rebuilding process where teams, the latest being Edmonton and Phoenix, can absolutely suck for years on end, get a top five pick and live off of the revenue sharing structure of the NHL. Then they cry when teams like the Flyers, Boston,and Rangers (and possibly the Pens in the future) who have spent years building a fan base and profitable business take advantage of what they have created to get better. Does the league have to regulate so much so that every team is mediocre? That is absurd. The Pens, Sabres, Sens all used that system in the past and it is a terrible system. I know Nashville has worked hard but it still is just off life support. If they can't make it now, they won't make it.

I have been away for the past 10 days or so and hearing that Weber news as a Flyers fan was very exiting. As a hockey fan, I know it stinks for Nashville, but this would not happen to the Rangers, Flyers, Pens, etc. I know the NHL promotes Nashville and its GM, but not getting either Suter or Weber (or both) locked up long ago was a terrible decision and if they could not do so, maybe the Nashville GM is not the hockey genius as he is portrayed on NHL Home Ice and this site. Also, maybe they want to leave Nashville.
- Patrickj

WTH are you talking about?

WTH are you talking about?
- BigDre

You guys are being enabled by the system...Team Welfare...

You guys are being enabled by the system...Team Welfare...
- Flyfreaky

Edmonton contributes to the pile of cash that goes to 'small-market' teams... not the other way around.

Visnovsky files grievance, hopes to nix trade to Isles...

Edmonton contributes to the pile of cash that goes to 'small-market' teams... not the other way around.
- BigDre

Oh, I thought you guys were one of the poor teams...How much money are you making every year?

So was thinking of this deal, assuming the Staal trade hadnt happened

Malkin, 3rd round pick
for
Ryan, Fowler, Etem 2nd round pick

So was thinking of this deal, assuming the Staal trade hadnt happened

Malkin, 3rd round pick
for
Ryan, Fowler, Etem 2nd round pick
- david22

Yakupov signed!
- BigDre

About time!

About time!
- bradjc

Go, Oil, Go!

- Flyfreaky

Thanks for the feedback

Thanks for the feedback
- david22

You have very good trade proposals...

Oh, I thought you guys were one of the poor teams...How much money are you making every year?
- Flyfreaky

Couldn't find a convenient source but this will do:
Edmonton is the NHL’s smallest market and has the league’s second smallest
arena, yet thanks to the higher level of interest in hockey in Canada, the Oilers
consistently generate higher arena revenues than most American NHL teams.
http://www.mowatcentre.ca...pdfs/mowatResearch/31.pdf

and

The Coyotes in 2008-09 expected to receive $14
million in revenue share and $9.3 million in TV
and other league distributed revenues. The Coyotes’
local market revenues are extremely weak:
net ticket sales were budgeted at only $16 million.
In other words, Coyote ticket revenues were only
one-third those of the Calgary Flames, Ottawa
Senators or Edmonton Oilers. To make up for
this lack of local fan support, the league is sending
the Coyotes a big subsidy—largely paid for
by Canadian ticket buyers and Canadian broadcasters.
The Coyotes are likely receiving more
money from Canadian fans than they earn from
local ticket sales. Revenue generated by the large
Canadian viewership of professional hockey is
being used to subsidize unprofitable American
businesses.

Same source.

So tomorrow we'll get a Nashville Matching Sheet post & Wednesday he's in Philly?

I see it coming with the 65% Preds 35% Flyers rumor chart

Couldn't find a convenient source but this will do:
Edmonton is the NHL’s smallest market and has the league’s second smallest
arena, yet thanks to the higher level of interest in hockey in Canada, the Oilers
consistently generate higher arena revenues than most American NHL teams.
http://www.mowatcentre.ca...pdfs/mowatResearch/31.pdf

and

The Coyotes in 2008-09 expected to receive $14
million in revenue share and $9.3 million in TV
and other league distributed revenues. The Coyotes’
local market revenues are extremely weak:
net ticket sales were budgeted at only $16 million.
In other words, Coyote ticket revenues were only
one-third those of the Calgary Flames, Ottawa
Senators or Edmonton Oilers. To make up for
this lack of local fan support, the league is sending
the Coyotes a big subsidy—largely paid for
by Canadian ticket buyers and Canadian broadcasters.
The Coyotes are likely receiving more
money from Canadian fans than they earn from
local ticket sales. Revenue generated by the large
Canadian viewership of professional hockey is
being used to subsidize unprofitable American
businesses.

Same source.
- BigDre

Thanks for the good read...I never understood why teams were allowed to leave Canada in the first place...So many sh*tty U.S. markets that everyone knew would never work (Except the NHL)...

Thanks for the good read...I never understood why teams were allowed to leave Canada in the first place...So many sh*tty U.S. markets that everyone knew would never work (Except the NHL)...
- Flyfreaky

When the Canadian dollar was worth 60cents US it wasn't feasible to pay salaries in US funds for small-market Canadian teams... Even the Oilers almost got shipped out but got saved by a collective of wealthy Edmontonians/Albertans who didn't want to see the team go.