What was the business strategy in the Preds' clearance sale?
Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at
6:24 pm
I’ve never really understood this whenever teams move. Even if the Preds kept those stars they traded away, they just have to relocate and they’ll have pretty much the same team, right?
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It helps to break the lease in Nashville if no one is interested in buying tickets. Thus the Preds being crap actually makes them worth more money. Craig Leipold probably does not want to send good money after bad as well. Ballsile has already set the bar very high at 238 million even if the team goes to someone else minus any stars. Given that the KC offer is 50 million less than Ballsile’s, I suspect that Bettman will make it up to Leipold somehow behind the scenes.
Leipold is still signing the paychecks for the forseeable future and would still be on the hook for Vokoun, Kariya, etc.
I don’t see the problem with changing up the roster of a team thats won two playoff games in two years.
freeing up cap room. Briere, Drury, Vanek, Kozlov, Smyth, Ouellet are all quality players that are available at this time. My guess is to have a respectable season by picking up at least 1 or 2 of these guys then fans will have something to cheer about when they depart bringing in some fans from where they move to. Hence giving revenue and more spending money to play aorund with when they relocate…just a guess…
less payroll makes them more attractive for buyers.
The team isn’t very attractive to buyers right now if it stays in Nashville, the talent is expensive and the attendance is low, unless someone’s looking for a tax write off.