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We are the fourth most valuable team in the league according to Forbes, and we have a ridiculous amount of growth compared to last year. Our valuation grew by over 100%!

I believe this is the highest the Canucks have ever ranked. Mike GIllis and the ownership are doing something right, at least!

We do have the largest scouting staff in the NHL as well as a sleep doctor and other rumoured things, so it seems that Aquilinis will use their money whenever it will make a difference.

http://www.forbes.com/nhl-valuations/list/

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We are the fourth most valuable team in the league according to Forbes, and we have a ridiculous amount of growth compared to last year. Our valuation grew by over 100%!

I believe this is the highest the Canucks have ever ranked. Mike GIllis and the ownership are doing something right, at least!

We do have the largest scouting staff in the NHL as well as a sleep doctor and other rumoured things, so it seems that Aquilinis will use their money whenever it will make a difference.

http://www.forbes.co...aluations/list/

Respectfully, what does that mean? That the Vancouver owners can line their pockets and celebrate the appreciation of their asset? And why would you care? It's not money out of or into your pocket.

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Something is totally wrong with the growth. Our evaluation grew the most out of any team at 105% we were valued at 342 million last year now at 700 million. The next highest is San Jose at 82%. There must be some wrong math involved or a change in the way the evaluation is calculated.

Edit: Comets Purchase is why we grew so much factored in with our own growth.

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Raising ticket prices and our team has dropped play past few years, yet the team only made more money and grew even larger....

For fans thinking they will start to lose money and fans resulting in lowering ticket prices, ain't happening anytime soon.

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Something is totally wrong with the growth. Our evaluation grew the most out of any team at 105% we were valued at 342 million last year now at 700 million. The next highest is San Jose at 82%. There must be some wrong math involved or a change in the way the evaluation is calculated.

My guess is the purchase of the Comets has a lot to do with that.

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For those not familar with accounting and valuations, the real reason the growth is so much higher than every other team in the league is due to the Aquilini divorce settlement. When the case was going on, Acquilini's applicable assets were required to be completely brought up to date to their fair market values (with exceptions on certain financial assets), but essentially, Forbes was able to use the figures from this settlement for Aquilini's Canucks related assets such as the team itself, rogers arena, team store, etc. This resulted in the most up to date value of the Canucks being used (about 700 mil). If you look at other teams who have had large corporate transactions and required fully up to date valuations on their team assets, you'd likely see a similar trend in growth from one year to the next. I think if you look at the Toronto Maple Leafs prior to the recent purchase of MLSE, their valuation was quite a bit below 1 billion. According to Forbes, it is over a billion this year.

EDIT: For the leafs, their 2011 valuation according to Forbes was $521 million. Their 2012 Forbes valuation, taking into account the bringing up to date of MLSE assets to FMV for the sale (as was similarly done with the Aquilini's divorce settlement), set their value at one billion. A bit less than a 100% increase.

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A bit different than last years. St Lou was last and more teams were losing money.

I wonder why we are rated higher than Chicago or Boston, who have bigger markets (which in theory provides more chance of growth) and both have higher revenue and profits according to this chart?

Perhaps because we did it on the basis of little or no play off revenue??

edit: looks so different because all the revenue and profit figures are based on the lockout shortened season... :blink:

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