FLYLine4LIFE said:
The owners dont have the ability to absorb greater losses...the players will have enough money to maintain a family still in 3 years....3 years from now there will be more then half the NHL out of the NHL because they have ZERO MONEY and you can maintain a company with ZERO profit.
The same can be said the other way around...the Owners cant possibly win...all Bettman is doing by making this hard cap offer over and over is making the Union stronger. You think the Players will just cave but they wont. In the end the owners will be the ones who will be forced to cave to maintain NHL TEAMS.
Your totally wrong on this, this is where the players lost all the leverage, it's like they don't know who they're dealing with, 3/4 of these owners probably aren't even true hockey fans, i'm sure they've come to appreciate the game, but they have other business ventures, the NHL hockey is just 1 small piece of the pie for them, and it's one where right now, they're losing less money locking out the players than if they were actually playing, it's battle the players can't win, the owners
will not back down
The last time someone tried to challenge a major corporation during a lockout, he ended up out of work for 11 years, remember Kramer and the bagel company!