Springfield Indians
Description
Franchise value and ownership history
Franchise name/location history (most to least recent):- Springfield Indians
| Franchise Valuation and Ownership History All amounts in US$ unless otherwise noted. |
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| Season | Value (US$) |
In today's US$ |
Hockey Franchise Valuation Rank |
| 1939-40 | $42,000 | $949,303 | |
| Eddie Shore purchased the AHL team. (Purchased it for $35,000 according to another edition of The Sporting News.) | |||
| Source(s): Hockey Pictorial Magazine / The Sporting News / Book: Net Worth | |||
| 1966-67 | $800,000 | $7,751,002 | |
| Jack Kent Cooke purchased the team from Eddie Shore for $800,000 and renamed them the Springfield Kings to be the AHL's farm team of the Los Angeles Kings. (It was for $1M according to Hockey Pictorial Magazine.) | |||
| Source(s): The Hockey News | |||