PhillyNucksFan
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vanlady said:I somewhat agree with you here. However this happens in business all the time. I have an employee that endeared himself with one of my biggest clients, the employee then came to me with unreasonable salary demands, I said sorry. That employee moved to another company and stole that client. So now I am out one of my best employees but also one of my biggest clients. Did I whine, no I went out and developed more clients and diversified that client base so I could withstand the loss.
Sorry but I have never laid the blame for my business mistakes at anyone elses door, unlike the NHL owners
You are missing a point here IMO.
Sure, what you did is right and probably inevitable.
But are you saying that the Owners are not doing that?
IMO, owner HAVE been doing that for the past 10 years!!!
I will use Oilers as an example, as they are the most successful one, and use Avs as another example.
This is hypothetically speaking only as we both know the definition of the market here is different and the relationship among owners and players are a bit different, but for the argument sake.
Oilers are you, and Oilers homegrown star are your strongest employee. The stars, most recently, Carter (or lets use Weight), have demanded or indicated the high salary he is likely to seek in a couple months time. Now, what do you do? You can either sign him, or trade him. Now, Oilers trade him, and let him go, like you have done. You develop you talent, sure, Oilers than develop new talents in Carter, Smith, etc. They live on, and stayed competitive. To the oilers credit, (i hate them, im nucks fan), but they are damn good at developing identifying and developing talents. Now, if you, like you said, owns your business and develop new talent, wouldnt you be xxx pissed if every 5 years, you develop a great sales, and every 5 years, the sales have to leave for someone and taking one of your biggest client every time. Would you not demand some change, if any if you can?
I know I would, because in the long run, I will not survive and I will close down my business. Sooner or later, i am going to run out of raw talent or the talent to identify talent and I am going to run out of big clients in this market, and I would demand a change in some way if i can. NHL owners can, because NHL is not a free market, not exactly, as the supplies are the players are limited, but so are the supplies of the employer. This is an equilibrium situation where both sides have to realize that, CBA will not work if there is no compromises and both sides have to realize that, the return of this COULD be a diminishing one as they are eroding the hockey interest in general among north americans. Lets face it, Canadians alone dont cut it.
EDIT: oops, forgot about the Avs point.
Avs on the other hand, is an example and duplicate of Oilers management IMO. They were just the same as the oilers when they were back in quebec, another small market team, and the team philosophy and culture has moved to denver with them. Now, in theory, a sensitively managed team, both financially and operationally, with unlimited budget will in term ice a very competitive product on and off the ice. Look at the Avs.. They have identified the great talent, and now, THEY have the tools to KEEP the talent. If they were still in Quebec, for argument sake, I highly doubt they will be able to keep BOTH the Sakic and Forsberg for so long, not to mention Roy! They woudl probably be just like the Oilers, trading away Forsberg for some up and coming talent and be competative all the time. That unlimited budget to sign their own players pushed them over the top.
Now, ehre is a question, Why cant we have a cap JUST on the UFAs and no cap on the homegrown teams or the players they have drafted signed the year before. This would obviously provides an advantage for the home teams to resign their players. No?
I dont know, just a though