] Aside from buying teams through bankruptcies, NHL owners
] could offer to buy and fold teams in flawed markets. One
] banker suggested the league could afford to reduce the
] number of teams to as few as 22 using this strategy, and
] that many owners, realizing their teams would never make
] money, would be willing to accept $50 million to $80
] million for their franchise.
]
] Said the banker: "Since it will make the NHL a more
] financially stable league, I'm confident that those banks
] that lend to the NHL will give the league the money, at
] least $500 million, to do this in a heartbeat."

An interesting analysis of the finances in the NHL.

The risk of loosing the preds or the thrashers...