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Blackhawks Losing Money Despite Second Stanley Cup Final Appearance In Four Years

06 / 18 / 13

Blackhawks Chair Rocky Wirtz said that despite making a "second Stanley Cup Final appearance in four seasons and obliterating television ratings records," the team will need "at least two more years before turning a profit," according to Danny Ecker of CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS. Wirtz characterized t...

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