PeterSidorkiewicz said:A CAP guarentees the owners a profit, and WHY should they be guarenteed a profit? Every team should have their OWN budgets and figure out on their own what makes them money and what does not.
Well my friend you are pretty uninformed when it comes to how teh business world works I see! Do you have a job right now? If so I have a little task for you, go to the owner of your company and tell them you don't care if they are profitable as long as you are getting paid what your worth! I think you will find you are earning what your worth alright, right after they fire you.
In the business world if your company isn't making money someone loses their job, but right now there is no accountability for the players if the league loses money.
The biggest problem with these whole negotiations is that the players don't understand that hockey is a business and as such should be reasonably expexted to make profits for the owners. While some owners are profit driven like jacobs, others don't give a hoot about profit as they own their teams as hobby's. The problem with teh players idea of free market is they they take the contract offered by a hobby owner to his players and use it to hold the other owners in the league hostage with comparable players. Teh only way that a free market system envsioned by the players could work if they added confidentiallty agreements to keep big contract secret and the players would never want that either.
I think the easies way to solve the open market system would be to take away guarenteed contracts. If they want an open market fine, but owners can walk away from players who aren't performing. That way wages would be controlled by releasing unproductive players. This would system could work for all teams not just big payroll teams.
edm woud have released Salo and his 3.9 million last year
Calgary could dump turek
Philly could dump Leclaire
bost coud dump lapointe
NYI yahsin
The players are saying they don't want a system where it is idiot proof because they know that they would lose teh cash cow they have right now. If the 20% of owners who are driving up the market stopped being stupid then the other 80% of owner would make money and god knows the players don't want that.
The players need to understand they earn their living because the owner has invested hundreds of millions of dollars on company to employ them and if that company is unprofitable things have to change.
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