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Attendance and Facilities
The GM could fix the price of games and food and drinks or merchandising articles during game days. For example, different categories at the arena have different prices, such as luxury boxes, business seats and simple seats. Recoverable prices could depend on market size, success, star player on the team, opponent (rivalries) and willingness to travel abroad from the opponent fans, condition of the arena, loyalty of the fans, popularity of coach and management and so on. The revenues could have an influence on the specifications of the owner for the team budget and on further budget for the maintenance of the facilities.
Some franchises are only tenants and others own the facility and haven more possibilities to design the facilities and develop them freely. Owned facilities can be expanded like little more seats but especially better seating comfort, mainly equipment as larger HD video cubes, workplaces for media with fast internet, wlan for fans, tv screens in the outdoor areas, number and scope of the care facilities as WC, snack bars and so on. Tenants are dependent on willingness and attitude of the lessor. Best example maybe the Islanders, which not quite so happy with their leased facility and now plan a new construction of their own.
Facility maybe must be also renovated time by time. The condition of facilities could deteriorate with increasing time depending on the number of uses. That means if there are more games because of seasonally playoff games or other users such as basketball franchises then the time could be reaching faster. Seats, WC, changing rooms, media, everything uses of or is not anymore state of the art. (Predictive) Maintenance has an impact on achievable prices for the games. After twenty years or so the discussion of a new main building is thrown from management, media and fans. Duration and success depends on the attitude of the market to the existing one, sizes of the media market and settings of the politics (elections) and so on. See also the current discussions in Calgary or Ottawa.
The Arena environment could be also important for the loyalty of fans, training success, for the development of prospects, recovery of players. That means size and equipment of training and medicine facilities and facilities for fans (club room, charity events, fan rinks etc.).
The reachability of the arena could also have an effect of the utilization and on the pricing. Arenas with connection to the public transfer system need less parking slots and so on. The whole could also reflect the culture of the region, in some regions public transport is preferred by the fan basis, others prefers their own cars. Maybe it is possible for the GM to come to an agreement with the local public transport cooperation – one dollar fee of each ticket - so that clearly less parking slots must be built and maintain. Of course this could also have an effect on the advertising readiness of car manufactures on the one hand and rather something different oriented businesses on the other hand.
Champions League in the expansion of the finance influences and controls would be natural if such topics as the impact of the fluctuating Canadian dollar on the Canadian markets would be programmed, such as influences on the team budget or the starting of discussions on relocation at a falling Canadian dollar. But that would probably be something for FHM23 or so ;-)
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