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Originally posted by amacontent
well if you consider putting a cap for the players where they can only make 2 - 3 million per year " Taking one for the team " well lots of hard working CANADIANS and AMERICANS will take one for the team
The OWNERS are the ones taking a financial risk here. If the owners lose 100 million in a season.. the players STILL get their contracted salary. Its like that in any biz. Like I said players are JUST employeees.
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I hear ya, but what Im saying is if some team in the desert can't break even, then they should fold their team. Calgary, Toronto, etc. I guarantee those owners are making money, there's no way they couldnt. The commissioner shouldnt have opened so many expansion teams before their time. There was a lot of poor decisions that were made in order for the league to end up like this. Had the owners and the commissioner made better decisions along the way, and during the last strike had they imposed some kind of salary cap and just been better at conducting their business, then this could have been discussed before it was a strike possibility. It could have been discussed in the board rooms and meetings instead of in the living rooms of millions of families every saturday night. Yeah, the players could take a salary loss and have all of this over, I would appreciate it if they did.. but I dont think its their fault that theres no hockey right now. It's the owners fault that it came to this.