mudcrutch79
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http://www.nypost.com/sports/22061.htm
Wow. If true...wow.
A well-placed source, however, has told The Post that the league is willing to negotiate a hard cap figure of up to $45M if it receives such an offer from the union no later than the beginning of next week.
This information, we have confirmed, has been floated from the management side to players of influence within the NHLPA, but not officially from Bettman to NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow.
There is no doubt that the league and a clear majority of the clubs recognize the severe economic consequences they will face in the aftermath of canceling the season, even while they inflict more punishing damage on the players. Without an agreement, there's little chance of selling a semblance of the required complement of season tickets and sponsorships. As such, the league is reaching out to the union for its own interests, certainly, but also with a fair measure of victorious generosity, much as that description might seem incongruous.
While Jarome Iginla, Chris Pronger and Jeremy Roenick have been previously identified as the most noteworthy of the insurgents — whose movement was a colossal miscalculation and failure, given that it fractured the union while doing nothing to advance a settlement — one influential player yesterday told The Post he was satisfied that Iginla had not been involved. He pointedly refused to say the same about Pronger, who posted a denial and explanation on the PA's secure website, or Roenick.
Indeed, there was near universal rage at Roenick, who, we've learned was actually paid $1.7M during the lockout as an injured (concussion) player.
Wow. If true...wow.