Good Business Decisions in the NHL
My last post was full on ranting and venting about the poor business decisions that the league has made over the years. After reading Paul Kukla’s post at NHL.com, I would like to address the good decisions that this league has made.
This post may take a couple days before it gets uploaded as I have a lot of school work to do, but I wanted to open it up to the BtJ readers and see what you guys thought have been good decisions made by the NHL over the past 15 years.
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January 30th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I fear we are still waiting for one.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:28 am
While it may have offended traditionalists, adding the shootout was the right thing to do. Fans in the arena look forward to it, and it provides more opportunity to get NHL highlights on TV. Just as the NFL has engineered rules to encourage the passing game, and the NBA has made an artform out of the slam dunk, the NHL now has a chance to showcase the talent of its players whenever a shootout occurs.
February 1st, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Christy,
Your professor is fully justified when he rips on the NHL. I grew up in Michigan and have been a Red Wings fan all my life. But the NHL continues to baffle me in almost every business decision it makes. I’m a U-M grad and I devoted much of my senior year (during the lockout) to a thesis proving that Gary Bettman and his Board of Governors are complete and utter failures in everything they’ve done in the past twenty years.
It’s nice of you to think about good decisions that the NHL has made recently, but I would urge you to consider Paul Kukla’s incentives. He’s employed by the NHL now, and while I don’t doubt for one second his devotion to the game, he might find his job in danger if he is critical of the league, the Board, or the Commish.
But take it from someone who has studied the NHL in a lot of depth–our sport is an utter mess right now. The fallout continues, and you know this is so when ESPN would rather own and broadcast Arena Football, mostly because it would score higher ratings.
Andrew
Michigan BBA ‘05