vadardog
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- May 29, 2004
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Here's an idea for the owners:
For starters, NHL teams have never been competing buisinesses. They compete on the ice and they compete to get the best players. However, I think we can agree that fans go to their home town teams games. Certainly very few are rich enough (or want to bother) to fly from New York to Dallas for the evening just because Dallas has a better team. What I'm saying is that Nashville may have to worry that their fans will go to the movies or to a football game instead of a hockey game, but they never have to worry that their fans may decide to go to another NHL game that night.
With this in mind I think the owners should just combine all their hockey assets and become part owners in the business of the NHL. So if Jeff Jacobs' Bruins were worth 150 million and the oilers were worth 75 million then Jeff Jacobs would own twice as much of the NHL business as the oiler owners. The owners could then entice the players back by offering them all unrestricted free agency. Exactly what they wanted. Then to keep salaries in check the owners could now legally "collude" to set salary caps for each division (team) of the new business. They could still aquire most of the best players in the world with a 25 million dollar salary cap. If a player doesn't like his salary he is free to work for another business like Modo or Farljestad.
For starters, NHL teams have never been competing buisinesses. They compete on the ice and they compete to get the best players. However, I think we can agree that fans go to their home town teams games. Certainly very few are rich enough (or want to bother) to fly from New York to Dallas for the evening just because Dallas has a better team. What I'm saying is that Nashville may have to worry that their fans will go to the movies or to a football game instead of a hockey game, but they never have to worry that their fans may decide to go to another NHL game that night.
With this in mind I think the owners should just combine all their hockey assets and become part owners in the business of the NHL. So if Jeff Jacobs' Bruins were worth 150 million and the oilers were worth 75 million then Jeff Jacobs would own twice as much of the NHL business as the oiler owners. The owners could then entice the players back by offering them all unrestricted free agency. Exactly what they wanted. Then to keep salaries in check the owners could now legally "collude" to set salary caps for each division (team) of the new business. They could still aquire most of the best players in the world with a 25 million dollar salary cap. If a player doesn't like his salary he is free to work for another business like Modo or Farljestad.