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Bill Wirtz is a good example, and living in Chicago during those years, I saw first hand that guy destroy that hockey club. However, it was over a long long period of time. In 1992 the club went to the Stanley Cup Finals, they were a hot ticket throughout that decade, and all those policies of no home TV was already in place during that time. But then he didnt want to pay players, they started to loose, a lot. And the NHL itself tanked as a league, so it was a very long process of turning a big time club into a pile of garbage. With these storylines, it happens over night. It happened to me, checkout my ponzi scheme thread.

I went from being by far the most sucessful club in the history of the league. My market size was astronomical. Then, my owner gets busted in a ponzi scheme, he lost all his money he invested into it, and then instead of seeing the club in the red, like I would expect, my penalty was instead having my market size knocked down to a 1. No way, would never happen. It defies logic, common sense. Flat out, this would not happen. The Mets got nailed with the ponzi scheme, but their market size did not shrink over night because of it. They had their hands cuffed because of the lack of funds, for me, it is the other way around.