33 Quotes by Ted Leonsis

We have been honest and open about this plan and will improve year after year until we get to our collective goal.

We have 20 first-round picks in camp and we will go through growing pains. But it will make the core team of prospects stronger and we won't change our strategy.

There's going to be a lot of expectations on this young man, being the first pick in the draft, but I ask that we allow ourselves some patience. We're going to build a team around him, a very strong, young, aggressive team, and he is certainly a great fundamental building block for us to go forward on.

One day when he's ready, then I can think about deals like that.

As a league, we will have less TV revenue, and locally I don't think we can expect to increase our ticket revenue. However, our ticket prices are going down even more. That price reduction may help attendance, but we don't anticipate it helping overall revenues.

This is not personal; it's business. This course of action was encouraged by our law firm and the NHL. We have a contract with Alexander, and we want his agent and Russian hockey team to honor that commitment.

There is this primordial soup brewing of more bandwidth, more storage, more devices and more people creating content which is inherently digital. The lightning that struck is that the people have rapidly adopted all this even faster than we in the industry conceived, and bypassed the traditional media.

It never should have happened, ... I remain committed to being an accessible owner. ... Additionally, I accept the league's findings and understand that regardless of the circumstances, I must be held to a higher standard than the general public.

I know we have work to do. My goal is to get back to 10,000 or 12,000 season ticket holders in two to three years and to run the team as a break-even proposition, have fun and build a team that can compete for the long haul.