[vincesanity82]

Comcast-Spectacor president Peter Luukko said yesterday that he had spoken to Madison Square Garden president Steve Mills to better understand the reason for the New York Rangers' antitrust lawsuit against the NHL. While the Flyers don't support suing now, Luukko said they were in agreement with the Rangers that the boundaries of local and national "rights" needed to be clarified. Last month, the Rangers sued the NHL over the league's seizing control of the teams' Web sites. They also are challenging the league's right to seize control of future revenues generated by the sites. The suit accuses the league of acting as "an illegal cartel." Luukko said the new media were an issue that needs discussion. "With converging media and new media, I think that, as a league, we have to begin to make some decision as to what rights are national and what rights are local," Luukko said. -- Philadelphia Inquirer

Flyers Notes | Team hears Rangers' side on antitrust suit | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/11/2007

[DonnieG]

nhl can kiss our ass. new york and philly together, unstoppable. this is why the northeast corridor is greatest... we take no bull****.

[EmpireWF]

This is an interesting suit. I think MLB controls the 30 baseball teams' web-sites, although I'm not sure.

Steve Mills should be out of a job stemming from the Isiah case, but that's another story entirely.

I wonder how many teams will jump on board with NY and Philly. The NHL is probably to gather has much profit from every possible revenue stream as humanly possible.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

I guess the NHL is hell bent on destroying itself...and now the lawyers are involved...great...