Originally Posted by Mutt

It's NOT a question of who's right or wrong. The owners are in charge, they own the teams, they own the buildings or lease the buildings, they own the TV rights - the owners saw the NBA and NFL players take a smaller % of revenues and they see no reason for their players to make more. I can't feel any sympathy for the players, if they signed a deal today, a player with a $2mil a year contract, which in the NHL is a third line player, instead of making $2mil he will make $1.86mil - wow, what a terrible fate. They are MORONS, if they lose half the season they will have lost more money in 4 months than if they had taken what the owners shoved down their throats over 7 years - which is longer than the average NHL career.

If I were the owners I'd go with replacements, open the doors to those who want to play and the rest can go off and make half what they were making in the NHL in European leagues.

See what Mike Modano and Bill Guerin's advice is to their former brethren.