The New York Rangers take the leading spot on Forbes checklist of NHL group values. It’s place they’ve inhabited for seven years straight yet a 21% increase pushes the Rangers over that $2 billion mark.
For the very first time in organization background, a hockey team is valued at $2 billion and also no, it’s not the Colorado Avalanche, not also shut.
Thus numerous points, the teams took a struck from the pandemic and with the reduced season played in vacant arenas for the 2020-2021 season, the average went down to $653 million or down about 2%.
Now it’s December 2021 in the center of a brand-new season and hockey has heated up. Forbes put the new average at $865 million, a whopping 32% boost from in 2014. Forbes said that’s the biggest dive considering that a 50% gain when the organization signed a massive Canadian television sell 2013.
Patrik Nemeth of the Colorado Avalanche presses the puck ahead of Filip Chytil of the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 16, 2018 in New York City
Members of the Colorado Avalanche praise the fans who went back to Ball Arena for in-person video games after the 9-3 victory against the Arizona Coyotes on March 31, 2021 in Denver
As for the Avalanche, they in fact rank in the bottom 10 when it pertains to group values, can be found in at No. 22 with a worth of $630 million, well listed below that team average. It’s worth noting the leading 8 teams are valued between $1.025 billion as well as $2 billion.
The Arizona Coyotes, valued at $400 million, are at the bottom of the listing. Forbes claimed component of the reason for that is since the group does not have an arena to play in following season as well as the franchise has had a hard time because they left Winnipeg in 1996.
As for the NHL’s latest team, the Seattle Kraken are number 13 on the listing, valued at $875 million, despite having paying that $650 million growth fee.