“You’re not very familiar with the NHL’s finances. This is not the NFL.”
It doesn’t matter. The NHL league and the NHL teams are “private enterprises”.
If they cannot afford, on their own, a capital plan in their business model, then they are not an economically viable enterprise to begin with.
That is their own responsibility, not the responsibility of government; not the responsibility of tax-payers.
Money earned through economically viable private enterprises should not be sucked out of the income from those enterprises - legally stolen with taxes by government, to make viable that which is not.
The money NOT spent on this fools errand is better spent WHERE EVER it lands by the free choice of individuals and businesses.
Show me where in my post I supported any use of taxpayer money to support the Islanders, the coliseum or the league.