OTTSENS said:
Players say that they want to play in a free market, they don't want a salary cap? Alright then no cap. NO GUARANTED CONTRACT, no salary arbitration. You perform you get the big bucks otherwise you get cut. Why is it that when a player is playing the last year of his contract huge season after that he signs a fat contract then nothing so you can't blame the fans and the owners to feel cheated.
So the owners are ready to gave the players their free market. Let's see if the players really want a free market or what they want is the NHLPA free market???
I am with you, let the players pay for thier own insurance, hotels, air fare, food, sticks. pads and such. Yup let them get paid for every goal, penilty kill, blocked shot, fight ( if you win ) team bonus for winning the game, hummmmmm
this sounds like a regular guy factory job
THe NHPLA stands behind a total free market, BUL**** because they know the anti trust laws they stand behind will not let the owners dictate the salaries as it will be colusion. So what the reality is the NHLPA want the right to exploite the rich owners and to hell with the broke ones. If an owner goes broke then it must be because he is a bad business man.
As for the Nhlpa WANTING A LUX TAX, well lets see, let the rich over spending owners spend even more money and give some to the poor owners. So the top players get his huger contract if a rich owners wants him and by the way the poor owner will have more money to pay bigger contracts to his players.
so it's bigger contracts all arround for the players in ither case.
The NHL is losing money and the players don't give a **** as long as they continue to get hugh and hugher contracts
My question is, what garenteed rollback of salarie is the NHLPA player willing to accept his big contract due to a 30-40 goal year if the next year he only score 15.
Players are just like independant contractors. So in the real world if I will pay a contractor 500,000 to build me a house and he does not I dont pay him. What the Players have is,"pay me the league average of 1.8 million and I will try to earn it but if I dont, I get the money anyway" tough luck on you. Who the frig would sign this contract in the real world. By the way in the real world you can sue a contractor so why can't the ownes sue the players who does not preform as his pay level or even better an owner should have the right to sue an oposing player for any intent to injure for assault and if the owner suffers a 4 month loss of his player and that converts to mabey 5 million in gate reciepts then SUE the instigator
for the 5 million. Lets really see if the NHLPA want that "free market system" or not.