Oi'll say!
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I don't want to get into the technicalities of Luxury cap vs salary cap vs linkage but I was wondering what side people are on, if any.
John Flyers Fan said:A deal should be done within the next few weeks. The NHLPA offer isn't perferct, but it certainly provides a major framework that a deal can be created upon.
I only held faint hope for a half season of hockey but the two sides have come further than I expected. I'm still expecting to lose this season though, 60/40.Isles72 said:I was mentally prepared to lose a 1/2 season , however , I think it will take losing the entire season to get their point across that they want ''cost certainty'' .
Cujo_31 said:however long it takes to get a hard 40 mil salary cap with good revenue sharing, with the 4 year entry level contract, $850,000 max. base salary & $850,000 max. in bonuses that the PA is offering.
i voted for 3+ seasons.
Steve L said:I would have voted for "until impasse" is declared but instead went for 3 seasons or more.
It has to be fixed or the NHL is done.
If there was no lockout half of the teams would have been done anyways. And there's no point in just doing a half job this time around, the nhl can't become known as the league that shuts down evey ten years.John Flyers Fan said:If it takes a 2nd year the NHL will already be done. It's already on the brink in the US.
The big news of the NHLPA proposal was on page 10 of the USAToday sports section, and was barely mentioned on major all-sports radio stations in New York and Philadelphia.
FLYLine4LIFE said:Whoever voted 3+ seasons...YOUR NOT A TRUE FAN OF THE GAME! How could you say..yea i dont mind watching hockey for 3 years as long as I get my cap. Wow!
Flame me, I dont care but your not a true fan. The most I could understand a fan to say would be a year and half but 3 years!? Im shocked.
FLYLine4LIFE said:Whoever voted 3+ seasons...YOUR NOT A TRUE FAN OF THE GAME! How could you say..yea i dont mind watching hockey for 3 years as long as I get my cap. Wow!
Flame me, I dont care but your not a true fan. The most I could understand a fan to say would be a year and half but 3 years!? Im shocked.
djhn579 said:I'm a big fan of the game. I'm also not a child. I can wait when I 'm reasonably certain that the end results will be worth waiting for. I'm shocked that some people on here are so fixated on seeing games that they put blinders on and pretend there are not some major problems that can, and possibly will, result in teams folding. Or just as bad, want to maintain the status quo where some teams can constantly bring in new players through trades because many other teams can't bring in enough revenue to keep up with the highly inflated salaries. I'm even more shocked that people can call themselves fans yet not care if teams fold (maybe they are not NHL cities... what BS!)
I'm willing to wait as long as it takes to resolve the problems. I doubt it will take more than two years, but as long as it takes was not an option given...
Excuse me???FLYLine4LIFE said:Whoever voted 3+ seasons...YOUR NOT A TRUE FAN OF THE GAME! How could you say..yea i dont mind watching hockey for 3 years as long as I get my cap. Wow!
Flame me, I dont care but your not a true fan. The most I could understand a fan to say would be a year and half but 3 years!? Im shocked.
jadeddog said:in all honesty.... who frickin CARES if the league survives in the states?? certainly not anybody that i know, and i live in hockey-crazy western canada.... once this gets fixed the canadian fans will be waiting and frothing at the mouth for NHL to come back.... if it doesnt get fixed, then the only NHL team that will left in canada will be the leafs.....then the rest of canada will turn its attention to a different hockey league, and the NHL knows it cant let that happen, because without canada, there is no NHL.....simple as that
FLYLine4LIFE said:Whoever voted 3+ seasons...YOUR NOT A TRUE FAN OF THE GAME! How could you say..yea i dont mind watching hockey for 3 years as long as I get my cap. Wow!
Flame me, I dont care but your not a true fan. The most I could understand a fan to say would be a year and half but 3 years!? Im shocked.
FLYLine4LIFE said:Whoever voted 3+ seasons...YOUR NOT A TRUE FAN OF THE GAME! How could you say..yea i dont mind watching hockey for 3 years as long as I get my cap. Wow!
Flame me, I dont care but your not a true fan. The most I could understand a fan to say would be a year and half but 3 years!? Im shocked.
Potatoe said:You think that all teams can survive without any revenue for 3-years?
These teams have, staff to pay, lease obligations to fufill, debts to service, and other business that are conected to their NHL franchises. There is a heafty cost asociated with not playing.
And what exactly will the revenues even look like after the fan base has been so badly damaged by a 3-year lay off.
Who are you to say you know what my emotions and motivations are?FLYLine4LIFE said:Please, your just so upsest with have a EVEN playing field that your willing to give up hockey for as long as it takes to get it..talk about greed. Heres a note...at least half the teams would be gone after 3 years...including your OILERS that cant hold on to a player and then blames the system.
no13matssundin said:But the economics are messed up beyond words.