bling
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- Jun 23, 2004
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A lot of NHL clubs are still bleeding dollars, hence revenue sharing. The successful teams are spending their own money to improve the product by making all 30 teams viable. Look at the way the western conference is now, all 15 teams have a shot at the playoffs. That improves the product on the ice, night in, night out. If you think allowing one team to spend 80M on their salary while the team filling the other locker room can only spend 22M is an improvement on today's product, I don't know what to tell you.
My team is forced to support the poorly managed and poorly run franchises that could not or would not build a decent team. As well as being forced to allow those same teams we have to subsidize sign our better players because the artificial financial constraints of the salary cap have forced us to let these players go.
How you can call this "rob Peter to pay Paul" environment anything close to a traditional business?