There's a meeting going on right now right?
There's a meeting going on right now right?
I'm just waiting for them to agree on SOMETHING: my understanding is that they can't even get on the same page as far as "small stuff", never mind the big economic issues.
I swear I'm going to see a headline in the future on TSN: "NHL AND NHLPA AGREE.........on the basic definition of HRR"
That would be news in itself I would think.
As I read more and more players going to Europe/Russia to play hockey-that suggests to me they are being told by the NHLPA "may as well go play there, we aren't going to be playing for a long time yet"
I thought they stopped arguing over changing the definition of HRR
As I read more and more players going to Europe/Russia to play hockey-that suggests to me they are being told by the NHLPA "may as well go play there, we aren't going to be playing for a long time yet"
The NHL always says its fans are the greatest in the world. The fans proved it in the way they came back after the last lockout. So, what does the NHL do? It abuses that. What do the league's owners do? They use The Fans Will Come Back as a club to beat the players into submission, again.
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Remember the NHL after the last lockout? Remember that "Thank You, Fans" message stenciled on ice surfaces across the continent when the game finally returned.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if this time fans made a stand, just once, if they got together across the league on Opening Night … and didn't show up? You know, No Thanks?
I wouldn't blame them.
deal. so what do we do for punishing the players? i vote for tomatoes
I think the Owners have a good argument for a 50/50 split. The more revenue grows, so does the expenses, yet the players don't pay expenses so thier share naturally grows every year disproportionally.
There is a good chance that in the future, the same problem still develops as the Gross/Net money grows disproportionally in favour of the Players. The Owners will want 55 or 60% next contract, the Players are complaining that this will happen but don't they realize why ???
I don't buy the Players argument about "it's the owners giving out big contracts, not us!!". My response to that is these Owners are challenged to put a good product on the ice and make a push into the playoffs so they could make money. It is a fact that the top 10 Teams drive up the salary numbers so that the bottom 20 Teams are forced to pay these contracts, (they do it under duress). So the players have a good argument here about revenue sharing but it's not the main solution, it's a secondary consideration because those 10 Teams cannot support 20 others. If the Revenue model was reversed with 20 Teams doing very well with 10 Teams suffering, then I buy the solution of Revenue sharing.
Right now, it sounds like those 20 Teams out vote the 10 Teams when Bettman takes a poll for locking out players.
am I missing something here...
I think the Owners have a good argument for a 50/50 split. The more revenue grows, so does the expenses, yet the players don't pay expenses so thier share naturally grows every year disproportionally.
There is a good chance that in the future, the same problem still develops as the Gross/Net money grows disproportionally in favour of the Players. The Owners will want 55 or 60% next contract, the Players are complaining that this will happen but don't they realize why ???
I don't buy the Players argument about "it's the owners giving out big contracts, not us!!". My response to that is these Owners are challenged to put a good product on the ice and make a push into the playoffs so they could make money. It is a fact that the top 10 Teams drive up the salary numbers so that the bottom 20 Teams are forced to pay these contracts, (they do it under duress). So the players have a good argument here about revenue sharing but it's not the main solution, it's a secondary consideration because those 10 Teams cannot support 20 others. If the Revenue model was reversed with 20 Teams doing very well with 10 Teams suffering, then I buy the solution of Revenue sharing.
Right now, it sounds like those 20 Teams out vote the 10 Teams when Bettman takes a poll for locking out players.
am I missing something here...