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Originally Posted by Mutt
NHL had done damage to itself in won't recover from for a generation - even in Canada. players should be shot for being sheep following Bob Goodenough whose strings are being pulled by the baseball players union head Donald Fehr.
anybody who puts any blame on the owners or Bettman is an idiot. it's been so obvious for years that NHL players are obscenely overpaid considering they have a small % of TV revenues the other big 3 pro sports leagues have.
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Agreed. Clearly the players are idiots. Here's some highlights from yesterday's negotiations:
"According to an NHLPA statement, Daly (the owners) began the process Monday by offering a $40-million salary cap without ''linkage'' - a fixed link between player costs and league revenues, which has long been the centrepiece of the NHL's bid for cost certainty."
"The union counter-offered with the $52-million team-by-team salary cap."
"Now the two sides are separated by $12 million on their cap figures. And with the rollback, two-thirds of the league's teams would be under $40 million."
A $52-million salary cap with many team payrolls under $40 million still allows for players to be signed to stupid overpriced contracts by teams that can afford to. It doesn't solve the LONG TERM problem which is why the Owners rejected it.