31-07-2021, 12:07 PM
(31-07-2021, 11:03 AM)Wightblue Wrote: I have absolutely no idea why Eisner purchased Pompey but a couple of straws in the wind for you
* The Anaheim Mighty Ducks always had the lowest players salary rosta in the NHL during Disney ownership (the franchise was started under Eisners tenure as CEO of Disney).
* With Eisner forced out of Disney (by Roy Disney) in 2005 The MightyDucks were sold to Harry and Susan Samuels for $75 Million, on the sale Harry Samuels said:
“ They (Disney) we’re more interested in saving their money and getting a good return on their marketing investment than they were in providing a championship team”
As I say, mere straws in the wind but maybe history may be repeating itself
Also interesting to note that from the start of the Mighty Ducks in 1993 until the sale in 2005 (all of the years under Eisner's control) Anaheim achieved pretty much nothing (despite regularly having high draft picks) aside from a run to the Stanley Cup Final (which they lost) in 2003 by playing a terrible style of hockey called "The Trap" - perhaps hockey's equivalent of Jacketball.
In 2007, just two years after the Eisner influence was gone, the Anaheim Ducks actually won the Stanley Cup. Not many folk there have ever suggested that "won-it-all" success was down to the Eisner's (ahem) "brick by brick" approach though.