Shame Shame On The Nhl Hockey Season And Players!

[MikeHawk]

Dont they get paid enough, they seem to give about the fans, sucks!

Final horn sounds on the season that never was
New York, NY (Sports Network) - National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman brought things to a head Wednesday, officially canceling the 2004-05 season at a press conference in New York.

The NHL became the first major North American sports league to lose an entire season due to a labor dispute. The Stanley Cup will not be awarded for only the second time since 1893, as it wasn't given out in 1919 due to a flu epidemic.

[Young]

fuck the NHL...shits so fucking boring to begin with. it will come back next year with 12 teams....if they are lucky

[xxxdesign-net]

Originally Posted by Young

fuck the NHL...shits so fucking boring to begin with. it will come back next year with 12 teams....if they are lucky

20-22 should be perfect... teams packed with quality players... more rivaleries.. etc..

[WWC-Moe B.]

all about $$$

[Mr Pheer]

ECHL players make about $22k a year, not sure what AHL pays but I'm sure its not a whole lot either. Why should NHL guys make so much?

I love hockey but I dont like whats going on. Cut the players pay to a level where the sport can survive and everyone makes money. If they dont like it, tell them go play somewhere else if they think they can make more. They wont have anywhere to go. They can either play for reduced pay or not play, then some AHL and ECHL guys can move up.

The players need to realize that this isnt football or basketball and they simply cant demand multimillion dollar paychecks when the sport doesnt make enough to pay those kind of salaries.

If I was given the choice to play in the NHL and make $750k a year or move down for less than $100k a year, fuck I'd stay with the NHL even if that $750k was quite a bit less than what I was making before. I'd adjust my lifestyle and be happy to be playing a sport I love and still make a decent living with it. Something is better than nothing.

[Dagwolf]

I just don't get professional sports. How about professional Risk or Monopoly instead?

[reynold]

That's fucked up.

[will76]

Originally Posted by Moe B.

all about $$$

yeap and now they are all making no money. IDIOTS... just waisted a whole year of their career... whats the average hockey player play, say 10 years at most. I think NFL is 4 years is the average... so they just threw away at least 10% of the income they will make playing hockey because they were bitching over a couple mill with the owners.. the owners don't lose that much, they can own the team forever, the players can only play for so long.

They are all idiots... thats what happens when you take a bunch of idiots with talent in sports and a big ego and greedy owners... serves them all right to make nothing and let their greed destroy the sport. I hope it never comes back.... like the millions they were making wasn't enough.. good go get a job at Mc Donalds now.

[Vitasoy]

I know it fucking sucks.

[the Shemp]

i thought they were locked out by the owners?

[MikeHawk]

What happened to playing a sport that you loved to play? Some of our greatest players of the past if you asked them would have played for free. Baseball lost me way way back, greedy over paid players make me sick!

[Drake]

Originally Posted by will76

They are all idiots... thats what happens when you take a bunch of idiots with talent in sports and a big ego and greedy owners... serves them all right to make nothing and let their greed destroy the sport. I hope it never comes back.... like the millions they were making wasn't enough.. good go get a job at Mc Donalds now.

When they blow their millions they'll wish they had agreed to play this season for reduced pay just to have more money coming in. It's not like they're getting paid minimum wage, they're still getting paid big money to play a GAME.

What ever happened to playing for the love of the game? The love of the game with nice money on top of it should be more than enough to keep players happy. Or so I would have thought.

[huey]

They are going to start a super leauge in Europe. Winning the Stanley cup will become a minor event. Betman really fucked a good thing.

[Love Brokers]

Canadians gotta be pissed. It's all they got with the fucking tundra frozen 9 mouth out of the year.

[Der Schleicher]

Originally Posted by Love Brokers

Canadians gotta be pissed. It's all they got with the fucking tundra frozen 9 mouth out of the year.

yah Its freezin this month

[spunkmaster]

They're pissing over 6 mil per year per team which is a penny to them ?

[will76]

Originally Posted by Mike33

When they blow their millions they'll wish they had agreed to play this season for reduced pay just to have more money coming in. It's not like they're getting paid minimum wage, they're still getting paid big money to play a GAME.

What ever happened to playing for the love of the game? The love of the game with nice money on top of it should be more than enough to keep players happy. Or so I would have thought.

I agree and I wish the other 3 major sports would get a reality check as well. It just fucks the fans in the end. Idiots... fucking the customer is not a good business practice. The players want more so the owner gives it to them, well he doesn't want to cut into his profit so the cost get passed down to increase in ticket prices. I know it's not the american way, but i would love to see there be a cap on the salaries of individual players, with a lot of the money being paid in bonuses based on performace. I don't understand locking someone in for 7+ years for 100+ million. What's their incentive to perform, they have already been paid...

It's asshame there isn't more players who play because of their love for the sport and be happy to make an average couple mill a year.. You see a litle bit of that on the Pat's team, but that is few and far between. Most sports players are greedy self absurbed huge ego assholes once they start making millions.