Brent Burns Beard
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- Feb 27, 2002
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look, if the owners want to cancel the season because they WANT a cap, then say that. but stop saying they NEED a cap, the fact is they WANT a cap.
i tell you what, i will change my stance to PRO NHL if Bettman were to say the following:
"the NHL owners WANT a hard salary cap because it is how we want to run this league and no matter how many good and valid and well thought out discussion the NHLPA proposes, the PA's and their members thoughts on the issue are of little importance to us.
there has and never will be a better time in the history of our sport to excersize our power on this issue. the market in the USA is almost non existent so we have as little to lose now as we ever will. the fans in canada dont care if we put monkeys on the ice in skirts, they will watch anything with an NHL jersey on it. they have said so in droves on radio shows, internet chat boards and public forums.
the fact is we know we dont NEED a cap, but we dont care, we matter of factly WANT a cap and nothing, even the players playing for 100 grand a decade will not change the fact that NHL hockey will not return until we have linkage. period, end of story, and until the players proposal contains the specific concept of linkage, NHL hockey will never return with the current members of the NHLPA."
if he just said that, then hey so be it. everything else he says is just PR and rhetoric to cover up the owners WANT a cap, but dont NEED it.
dr
i tell you what, i will change my stance to PRO NHL if Bettman were to say the following:
"the NHL owners WANT a hard salary cap because it is how we want to run this league and no matter how many good and valid and well thought out discussion the NHLPA proposes, the PA's and their members thoughts on the issue are of little importance to us.
there has and never will be a better time in the history of our sport to excersize our power on this issue. the market in the USA is almost non existent so we have as little to lose now as we ever will. the fans in canada dont care if we put monkeys on the ice in skirts, they will watch anything with an NHL jersey on it. they have said so in droves on radio shows, internet chat boards and public forums.
the fact is we know we dont NEED a cap, but we dont care, we matter of factly WANT a cap and nothing, even the players playing for 100 grand a decade will not change the fact that NHL hockey will not return until we have linkage. period, end of story, and until the players proposal contains the specific concept of linkage, NHL hockey will never return with the current members of the NHLPA."
if he just said that, then hey so be it. everything else he says is just PR and rhetoric to cover up the owners WANT a cap, but dont NEED it.
dr
