Best owners or players can hope for now is a shortened 2012-13 and with full 2013-14, maybe they'll get back to growing rev in 2014-15.—
Tom Gulitti (@TGfireandice) November 16, 2012

Mark Spector has more on this at Sportsnet and says that the mistakes of Gary Bettman, such as expansion where the owners were paid a fee to enter the new league, haven’t exactly worked out. “The collective financial losses of sunbelt teams over the years will one day surpass their sum total in expansion fees gobbled up by Original 21 owners. Perhaps they have already.”