SuperUnknown
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vanlady said:Again you fail to realize that the owners have a "duty" to bargain in good faith. They absolutely cannot sit with their thumbs up their butts and do nothing. This will get them into real trouble and quick. On this side of the border the NHL has even a slimmer time line without the labor ministers getting involved. Remember there are elections comming up and the federal government cannot afford to annoy the labor movement in the southern parts of Ontario. Oh and to implement their CBA as you put it requires impasse.
First, the owners have the right to lock out the players for as long as they want. No ifs or buts. As to the labour movement, do you really think they care about the NHLPA?
What I'm saying is that the players will bend someday. Whether that is in 2-3-5-10 years isn't known, but there's a point where they will have lost so much (and will be losing so much more with each day that they're locked out) that they'll sign to anything. It's easy to go "I don't care losing one year" when you have a few millions in the bank, but as time goes by, those players will be losing years and years of "good hockey good pay" and the fanbase will diminish, meaning that even if they get 75% of the revenues, it will be based on a much shorter income line (if total revenues shrink to $800M, then globally they'll get $600M at today's rate, a rate they won't even come close to get). Eventually, in due time, the players will sign an agreement with the owners that's based on the owner's concepts.
Economic laws will always surpass anything else. In this case, they clearly are against the players. Anything else is fluff.