also they are pay 100 mill per team and then 500 mill for the league itself. its not that bad when you look at it like that.
also one company owning the entire league could be a good thing. one of the biggest probables with the NHL right now is that team owners are competing with eachother, and this is causing a huge demad for good player, thus the salaries are rising. however there are so man cases where a player may have 1 40 goal season then expect to get paid the same as a player that gets 40 goals every season. in that way the inflation has risen to a point were the league was losing too much money. a perfect example of this is bobby holek with the rangers he is at the most a 2.5 - 3 mill defenceman. but the rangers are paying him 7 mill, why because he had one or two season where he played really well and the rangers saw this so they jsut out bid everyone else and paid him 7 mill.