go kim johnsson said:
gkj, I can agree with most every post you have ever put on these boards, but to continue supporting the players just totally disregards my post.
1. I don't necessarily agree with the cap number. Easy math...$1.2 billion is approximately 60% of revenue. That would deduce $40 million as an easy figure with inflationary increase or as revenue increases.
2. You are overlooking the obvious. If I am the Rangers, I am not doing anything wrong when you look at my franchise. I am still profitable. My building is still full. You can't take individual teams and have them build their franchises based on how another team is going to feel. That totally circumnavigates human nature. People want to be given a set of parameters and rules to compete by, where everyone has a similar structure.
The gun to the head is asking teams with lower revenue streams to either lose money or not be competitive. The gun to the head is an arbitration system that only benefits one side. The gun to the head is the lack of the penalty to hold outs. The gun to the head is that a $2 BILLION dollar organization had losses of $300 million dolllars.
I tell you, if I was a business owner with those losses on that revenue stream, heads would be rolling, and if it was a union that caused those losses, I WOULD BREAK IT. I totally agree with unions. I have no problem in fair business practice. But not at the expense of losing my business.
If you can tell me that if the NHL decided to take the entire pool of money $1.2 Billion dollars and HANDED it to the players that they would be hard done by.
Their ridiculous excuse that they don't want cost certainty....Go To H. E. Double hockeys sticks. What is wrong with "If we make money, you make money, the more revenue you create, the more you get."
The only thing capping the players salaries is their ability to help the NHL promote the game and increase revenue streams. No, goddam it, they are saying to the owners of $100 million dollar business that they don't give a four wing whether or not they have to take millions of dollars out of their other businesses or net worth so they can be spoon fed large "Guaranteed" contracts.
Fine. No cap. No guaranteed contracts. Status quo. Jagr, sorry, you are cut.