this is gold Jerry.

How long has every small market team in the N HL claimed they are losing money - the Oilers since the late 80's, Ottawa since their inception - at some point it's either a complete lie or the business model is broken. If it is broken, you look to other successful business models to see how to make your business profitable - and the answer is revenue sharing.
- tuna99

And all those other successful business models use a 50/50 sharing model...

You are done now, g'bye.

They cut salaries 24% in 2005 and did it make a lick of difference - every small market team came out of the lockout complaining they were still losing money.
there are small market teams in the NFL - never hear a peep out of them losing money.

And your argument is 100% correct - NY teams, all Canadian market teams, even Chicago is at risk of losing money - the answer to this is revenue sharing. The owners have proven over the last 20 years they cannot control their spending or make a profit in this league despite revenue growing over 1 BILLION in 7 years - if you can't make money off of that the business model is broken.
- tuna99

Revenue went from 2.1 to 3.3 B in the length of the last CBA...Player Salaries went up 90%.

So roughly revenue went up 50% and salaries went up 90%...doesn't seem equal for some reason.