WHARF1940 said:
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Mark Madden reports:
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Marshall
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amazingcrwns
drop the puck
Ian Moran = Eklund? 
But in all seriousness, I really hope this report is true. I'm having trouble with all this silence. Something has to be going on, I don't believe anything I read anymore as we can't trust anybody on this. We're basically stuck in limbo until we get a message telling us the season is on or that the season is cancelled. We're not going to really know anything until we get one of these 2 reports.
But in all seriousness, I really hope this report is true. I'm having trouble with all this silence. Something has to be going on, I don't believe anything I read anymore as we can't trust anybody on this. We're basically stuck in limbo until we get a message telling us the season is on or that the season is cancelled. We're not going to really know anything until we get one of these 2 reports.
cojac87
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This is the same guy who was in the wrasslin business. I hope there is no cap and to bad to all the so called small market teams who have weak fans at best and don't know how to market or ant to market there teams. Why should high revenue teams like the Flyers ,red wingd and the like suffer? They need to contract and let owners spend what the want to spend.JackHammer55 said:Mark Madden said on espn radio 1250 in Pittsburgh, that the lockout will be over by Thursday. soft cap of $40 million, hard cap of $50 million
OilerFan4Life
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JackHammer55 said:
Sorry JH55, I meant nationally. I beleive its called "ESPN the Magazine" or something.
Twine Seeking Missle
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I really wish this would stop already. This roller coaster ride is just unbearable. Last week I was more optimistic than ever about there being a season this year. Then after the talks last week in NY I was 100% convinced that there wouldnt be a season. Now I read a post like this and my hope is coming back. Watch... on Wednesday night after these meetings i'll probably be pissed/upset again. I just wish we could know one way or another this up and down crap is killing me.
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free0717
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I doubt owners go for the 40mill luxury tax starting point and 50 mill Hard cap. If Madden is right, my hats off to him.
free0717 said:
I agree with you 100% , but I think if we want to see hockey anytime soon , the 40 mil lux tax start point and a 50 mil hard cap looks alot more appealing to the players than a 42 mil harcap .
the 8-10 mil difference might be what it takes to get a deal done
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Remember folks, pessimists are never disappointed. :lol
I'm still hoping we kill the season. I want to see Potvin and Lindros flipping burgers for a couple of years.
I'm still hoping we kill the season. I want to see Potvin and Lindros flipping burgers for a couple of years.
free0717 said:
As much as it differs greatly from their original demands, we all should know full well that the NHL did not come with their best offer first. Clearly there was lots of room to negotiate the entire time. This deal could easily work for the NHL if the owners simply start doing SOME policing of themselves, not even lots of policing. If the cup run teams are paying $50,000,000 on the dot, and the rebuilding teams are paying accordingly to their position, teams would be in alot better shape.
This deal would be very doable for every team in the league, although I'd like to see a lower salary floor, possibly even none, however if you're icing a team that clearly has no intentions of competing, when they could (IE, prospects who could perform not being called up...) then there is a floor problem.
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GregStack said:No it's not, I simpy said I think, you may still be right
You are right, that is what Bowman said.
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GregStack said:
no one ever gives their best offer first, and if you do you're gonna get bent over a barrel, you'd be fooling yourself if you think the PA offered their best proposal first. Its all part of negetioating
I cannot see the owners accepting a cap that high. That's like putting
a band-aid on a severed arm.
a band-aid on a severed arm.
I tend to believe this report. I went out on Saturday night and ran into one of the assistant coaches of the Lightning (I am in Tampa visiting my brother) and we got to talking after I noticed his enormous Stanley Cup ring, told him I was from Denver, and I really enjoyed watching the run to the cup and the high tempo offense, blah blah blah...we talked a bit about the lockout, and how the Lightning don't require him to show up more than once a month and he's still getting paid, and I told him that I wish that one way or the other they'd just make an announcement regarding the season, he flat out told me that he is VERY optimistic there will be a season and to pay attention around the end of the week to the news, I told him that he obviously knows more than I do, and I hoped that he was right, and he told me he didn't think I'd be upset with the outcome.
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nomorekids
The original, baby
i'm calling the proverbial "shenanigans" on this. i simply feel too cynical to believe anything, these days.
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