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Hockey on pay-per-view?

I read an article today (further adds to the incompetence of Bettman) that stated that maybe this would be the way to go. It mentions the De La Hoya/ Mayweather fight brought in 120 million to HBO. Versus payed 55 million for a whole season's worth of hockey. It also stated that the whole Buffalo/Ottawa Preakness game that NBC bounced because they payed millions to air the race while NBC paid nothing for the hockey game, they just made them a "partner."

Would this system work better for the USA, especially in the play-offs.

If anyone wants to read the article, it is at philly.com-sports and is written by Sam Donnellon, entitled "NHL's future on TV can't be worse than the past". Check it out- a good read for you die-hards IMO.
Andy- did I say NHL center ice package?
TheOnlyBeldin- if you read the story he touches on this. Nobody watches boxing when it is on for free either LOL but they pay for over-hyped matches. Good point but this guy (Donnellen) makes a good point too.

He has a point...they have NOTHING to lose. Nothing. Less than nothing. Nada.

I don't really see this working because there are too many areas in which hockey is just not analogous to boxing. But...who knows...I guess it could work. Or maybe it'll just work better than this.

What would annoy me about pay per view is that I would have to pay to watch the games. I don't like any sport enough to pay to watch the games...unless it's like 5 bucks. Thirty bucks though? Forty? Fifty? I'm not going to get a bunch of people to watch it with me so it's not really worth it.

That another thing. Boxing gets a lot of its sales to people who watch it as a group. Good luck finding a bunch of buddies who wanna spend the night watching hockey...not gonna happpen in America methinks.

But give this guy points for being creative.

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