| Show ''''' ' y Ww ' D14 SPORTS Sunday June 28 1992 Grows Golden Eagles Suffer Financial Stress MI Continued From - PVIO's:"":' The Salt Lake Tribune As 13 - - kwr -1)-- 1 We were left with fewer week casual customer too But still the Eagles are facing an uphill climb Howells has encountered some resistance on the renewal of the team's working agreement with the NHL Calgary Flames He expects some sort of resolution soon: he's not prepared to go the independent route as four II IL teams are doing In addition playing in the Delta Center is more expensive than playing in the Salt Palace even though the rental fees technically go from one pocket to another under the Miller umbrella Howells - end dates at home and with dates in general that resulted in a more expensive travel schedule" said Howells explaining that since the older teams in the Midwest rarely played on weekdays the Eagles would often have to road trips make costly With the adjustments in subsidies and seniority the Eagles can cut about $75000 off their expenses next season And with three more major markets in the like Phoenix and Denver instead of the continuous invasions from the Flints and Kalamazoos Well gradually the league has developed the look that Teece althe ways wanted For 1992-9league has expanded to Atlanta and Cincinnati and the Muskegon franchise has moved to Cleveland So the IIIL is adding three more major markets to Salt Lake City Milwaukee Indianapolis Kansas City Phoenix and San Diego The only small fries left are Peoria Fort Wayne and Kalamazoo bus Suddenly the league includes three cities that used to have National Hockey League teams (Atlanta Cleveland and Kansas City) six cities that currently have National Basketball Association franchises and eight cities that have National 3 e one-gam- league their home schedule should have more appeal to the don't know if we're going to see a lot more than 6000 a game net year" Six thousand a game would have been a attendance figure for the Eagles in years past But now it's pedestrian The Eagles ranked fifth in home attendance in a league last season trailing Milwaukee Fort Wayne Kansas City and Peoria And now the IIIL is introducing two new franchises Cincinnati and Atlanta that could easily outdraw Salt Lake So yes the Eagles are now skating with the faster company that they've always wanted in the 11114 But they are going to have to skate a little faster themselves to keep up at the cash register league-leadin- of those weekend dates and other dates and schedule other events and they wouldn't have to have 50 of them to equal the profits from Golden Eagles games" said Howells But the Eagles are determined to change the financial picture in 1992-9They have set a goal of base doubling their season-ticke- t from 1000 to 2000 And they aren't going to give away as many discounts and freebies They have to generate more revenue from last year's base of 6000 customers because as Howells said "1 cited arena labor costs which he said are three times what they were in the Salt Palace Because the Eagles and the Delta Center have the same ownership the team has a particular obligation to prove its worth In other words if the Eagles and the arena combined fail to break even on 50 hockey dates — and says Howells "that's still a pretty big red number" — then it makes less sense for Miller to continue fielding a hockey team "There's a pretty good chance the Delta Center could take some g 10-tea- 3 ! once-dink- y A 11 t I UTAH EN Company Football League franchises half-clai- ) LI ?0 1 1I ( (counting Milwaukee's on the Packers) "We as a league feel that the HIL is the best league in the said world outside the Howells "And one governor was bold enough to say that given what's going on there in the NHL we might be the best professional hockey league in the I - 1116ri n cc 17-7-- 7 1 ' Lil Arl 1 r--- - :- -) ) Jt1A c)c)) At least the Eagles have regained an association with markets an asset they used to have when they were members to of the old CIIL from 1974-71983-8as Coincidentally just the HIL assumes its new look the old CHL is planas well a in 1992-9return ning The league will include CIIL Memphis and five cities — Dallas Fort Worth Oklahoma City Tulsa and Wichita team Ray Miron a executive in the old CHL is heading up the new league which will begin play in November with each team playing 60 games The stx teams will be owned by the league which will have central control over marketing and salaries Miron is not looking for any NHL working agreements the league will be the equivalent of with the baseball's Double-and the American Hockey League occupying the Triple-- rung The addition of three large market franchises to the IHL and the opening of large markets by CHL indicates the that there is growing hockey interest in American cities Miron thinks he knows why "When hockey really started blooming was when Wayne Gretzky was traded to Los Angeles in 19881: suddenly hockey got a lot more coverage in the United States" he theorized "And then when the NI IL dropped USA cable network and signed with SportsChannel nobody could see the game They could read about it but they couldn't see it" So people began going to games And success stories began to emerge Cincinnati one of the I IlL's new cities averaged 9000 fans per game the last two years in the East Coast hockey League Omaha sold out continually for junior hockey In the TIM little Fort Wayne averaged more than 7300 per game last year Not only has the hockey landscape changed for the better for the Golden Eagles in the last eight years but so too have their terms of membership in the MI When the Eagles joined the league in 1984 they were forced to agree to pay each of the other eight teams a subsidy to cover their expenses for traveling to Salt Lake City That included not only air fare but also hotel ground transportation and per diem expenses It was a prohibitive sum for the Eagles in their iarly years in the league and even last year by which time Western teams like San Diego and Phoenix were playing it was still roughly $75000 Howells chairing an IIIL committee on subsidies aimed to diminate this penalty when he went to the league meetings in Montreal a couple of weeks ago And he virtually did The subsidizing teams — the Eagles and the teams that joined the IIIL after them — will now have to pay only $14000 in 1992-9subsidies That sum goes to the league office which will then distribute it The subsidy total decreases to $7000 in 1993-9and then to zero after that The only exception is Kalamazoo the smallest market in the league A special dispensation was made for that franchise and so the Eagles will continue subsidizing the Wings for their trips here Howells still wants the Wings to pay their own hotel and per diem expenses In addition to relief from the subsidies the Eagles also left Montreal this month with relief from the seniority rule (again with Kalamazoo granted an exemption) The seniority rule dictated that the teams with the most seniority received preferential playing dates Muskegon for in stance played 38 of its 41 home games on weekends last season 0 A t0 1 ! 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