Leafs Will Be Just Fine

from Eric Duhatschek of the Glob and Mail, So let me get this straight: Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment is transferred Friday from one massively profit-driven ownership group ? the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan ? to another (the unlikely consortium of telecom giants BCE and Rogers) and some immediately conclude that it?ll be a disaster for the Toronto Maple Leafs? on-ice fortunes. Well, no, we?ll beg to differ.

In today?s NHL, it takes two things to win ? good management and a little bit of good luck.

In a salary-capped world, ownership is a neutral factor, unless ownership is unstable and forces its managerial group to operate at a financial disadvantage, by imposing a strict budget on its operations. That was never the case in Toronto under the Teachers? stewardship and it won?t be the case in Toronto under the new BCE-Rogers umbrella either.

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