“Things are actually feeling normal” – NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman reveals record-high revenues this season
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The National Hockey League (NHL) has generated record revenues projected to exceed a whopping $5.2 billion this season. The tournament further plans to return to a normal calendar for the 2022-23 edition as it continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, Commissioner Gary Bettman said on Wednesday.
The 2022-23 regular season is scheduled to begin on October 11 in North America as confirmed by the Commissioner prior to Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning at Ball Arena on Wednesday. Earlier, the NHL announced the Nashville Predators and San Jose Sharks would play a couple of regular-season games in the 2022 NHL Global Series at O2 Arena in Prague, the Czech Republic on October 7 and 8, marking the League’s first games in Europe since 2019.
“After two-and-a-half years, things are actually feeling normal,” Commissioner Bettman said, as quoted by NHL.com. “We’re only a couple of weeks later than usual on the calendar.
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“In fact, our revenues this season will be a record-high and within two, possibly creeping into three years we are anticipating resuming the more regular increases that the people had been growing to expect from the salary cap.”
“We put NHL hockey over most difficult circumstances”
Commissioner Bettman further highlighted that the NHL will exceed its revenue totals from 2018-19, the last full season before the pandemic despite having to postpone and reschedule as many as 105 games this season.
He added: “What we’ve done is we’ve operated, we’ve done the fundamentals of our business, we continued to put on NHL hockey over the most difficult of circumstances and all of our partners, whether it’s corporate or media partners, were extraordinarily pleased with the result. It is the cooperation and collaboration with the players and the Players’ Association that made that possible. We’re able to stabilize the business and power through.”
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