NHL season is slipping away
 

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It's funny how neither side will budge on what they want. Sooner or later it was bound to happen in all sports. They pay these people way to much

Im not crying :glugglug

We have loads of NHL pro's here in Sweden now :Graucho

lol :321GFY :1orglaugh

They are all over Europe now, lol

I agree, they pay them WAYYYYYYYYYYY too much !

Can't wait to view it once again. Go NHL.

Fuck them all, they should start the league back up and not let any players back , let them beg to get that rich NHL money they used to make

Let them drag their families away from their big cars and homes to Europe where the pay is small

You're an idiot. NHL players don't make the crazy money athletes in other sports make. Of course there are your superstars who are raking it in but the league average is something like $300k/year. And the owners want to cap it?

Fuck them i'm sick of over paid men being babies time for NBA anyways...

The NHL is slipping away :(

Hockey has become boring anyways. 80's hockey was the best.

Before calling people idiots get your facts straight...the average is 1.8 mil and the proposed cap would bring that to 1.3 mil for the average player

Bummer :(

NBA players are 10 times worse babies...look at spreewell (spelling?)

"10 million per season is an insult...I'm just trying to feed my family" feed them what? Cocain

Lol, I love people flaming that don't know what they're talking about. $300,000 is the minimum salary. The average was 1.83 million.

and there are 700 players in the league...a hockey roster is much bigger than a B-ball roster

The players earning about 75 percent of the money is not a good thing. Hockey has lost over like 2 billion the past 10 years. I think that should justify a change.

Higher salaeries means higher ticket prices which means less people can afford to attend which means less people will go. Unless you have a winning team, or are hot it's hard to always sell out and that hurts.

Hockey is a high contact, high impact game. When you retire from playing Hockey, you're beaten up. Basketball is nowhere near as intense.

The worst are Baseball players. Men in no better shape than me making a fucking killing.

There wont be any hockey this season. Hopefully they all get there shit together soon though

get your facts straight - this is a very clear sided battle here. the AVERAGE NHL salary is $1.8 MILLION - NHL payrolls in most cases are close to what NBA, NFL and MBL payrolls are WITHOUT even half their revenues. An NBA team begins the season with a check from national broadcasting deals for 32-35 million dollars - NHL teams don't even get 10 million between the Canadian and American TV deals - might even be as low as 5 mil per team now that the ABC deal is over and they are doing a parntership with NBC. NHL payrolls should be HALF of what an NBA payroll is - about 20 million per team, the NHL owners are
offering them a fair deal - under the system they want to implement - and they will implement it no matter what the players thing be it this year or next year when they call a labor impasse - is an average salary of $1.3 million a year. No fan should be behind the players on this one - hundreds of millions of dollars have been lost on NHL teams - no reason the players should be filling their pockets while owners struggle to establish hockey in places like Florida and Texas.

Fuck the players - I am pulling for the owners to break the union -
they will have a challenge getting the courts to declare an impasse but if they win they will totally reconstruct how the NHL is run - say goodbye to guaranteed contracts, contracts will be with the NHL itself and not individual teams, there will be a hard salary cap which will be below their current offer. What are the players going to do about it? Nothing - Europe isn't an option - not for Canadian and American players - for the better European NHL players the money might be close enough in the future that some will stay home.

The NBA is up next - their CBA is up after this season and David Stern along with Paul Tagliabue of the NFL and Bud Selig of MLB are watching this hockey labour dispute very closely - if the NHL prevails look for the rest of the leagues to follow suit with the same hard line.