Ahead of Wednesday night’s Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said that the league will generate a record of over $5.2 billion in revenues this year, adding that those projections might be on the conservative side.
Bettman, alongside deputy commissioner Bill Daly, praised the league for increasing its national media revenues and thanked the NHL’s sponsors, touting his team’s strategy as enabling a return to normal business operations two years removed from the pandemic.
“Our buildings are back to basically where they were [with attendance], and maybe a little better,” Bettman said, per Kristen Shilton of ESPN.