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oh wait................grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

YOU TOOTHLESS STUPID WHINING CRYING BITCHES ON SKATES FACE UP TO THE FACT THAT YOU LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE WHO DOESN'T START THEIR OWN BUSINESS WORK FOR A BOSS AND A PAYCHECK, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THE PAYCHECK IS $500 OR $50,000 YOU ARE NOT THE BOSS OF ANYBODY! YOU MAKE MORE MONEY THAN 99.99% OF THE 8 BILLION PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET, STOP POUTING! YOU WON'T WIN THIS FIGHT JUST LIKE YOU DIDN'T WIN THE LAST FIGHT SO PICK YOURSELVES UP, TAKE THE MILLIONS YOUR BOSSES ARE PAYING YOU AND GET THE HELL ON THE ICE NOW!!! GAME ON!!!!

1000% agree.

Finally, Canadians will stop crying about American politics.

Wow, you're on the owners' side?

Have you even been watching the press conferences, or the almost daily public announcements by the owners? I think you'd be looking at this quite differently had you been paying close attention to it.

I'm a season ticket holder btw. So it definitely hurts to not have hockey starting. However as I've actually paid very close attention to everything, and seen what all the owners have stated - there's no way I would be on any other side than the player's.

Thankfully, we've still got the minor leagues.

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Well, if your entire political process wasn't so fucked up and crooked.... :winkwink:

yeah i'm with him, i think its more of the owners here...while i agree that make plenty of money, its not really their fuck up as much as the league overexpanded in poor markets and the owners are trying to make the players pay for that

I want the traitor Luongo to suffer longer

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.

that's my farm team - they're gonna televise a lot of Amerks games on Buffalo cable. I'm sure other cities will be carrying games from their AHL affiliate teams.

i don't think you realize that its not just this year that's at stake but these deals are usually 7-10 year deals. so while yeah a guy might make 10% less this year than usual, if you spread it over he could make quite a bit less.

it also has to do with parity. the league has grown it's not really making money in a lot of markets and asking bigger markets to cover their ass. happens in all sports

read this, might help you understand more
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-pu...tml#more-41149

I miss Hockey

Around here, everyone seems pissed off about the whole thing. Myself included.
They made this whole big deal about the NHLPA bringing Donald Fehr in to take care of this before it became a problem and he hasn't done shit.

Example: Player A signed a new contract that was to begin this season, 5 years at $2M per season, $10M total.

Owners are demanding players take a 7% cut, Player A loses $700K over life of the contract.

Owners don't budge, players don't budge, season is cancelled. Player loses $2M, he never gets that $2M back.

The average NHL career is just 5 years.

That is the exact thing I was telling a friend of mine this past weekend. The players are stupid if you ask me. Make hay while the sun is shining as the old saying goes.