I love hockey. One of my favorite sports.NIL combined with a couple other rule changes could possibly cause an explosion of interest and possibly ratings (relative to what they were) for college hockey. Sparty has 19 current NHL draft picks on their team this year and Michigan has about a dozen.
That’s such a massive leap in talent that would be playing juniors or somewhere else before the changes.
Hockey also has one major advantage in that during the offseason or off days the rink can also be used by students and club/IM teams where a lot of other facilities can’t.
But the above just references revenue. What is the sport’s expenses? Also, I’d bet that the UW men’s hockey team’s revenues go directly to the women’s hockey team for funding. I doubt it’s a money maker or even a break even between the two sports.

