mooseOAK said:The NHL's counter offer came with a cap which the NHLPA immediately rejected which proves that they had absolutely no intention of the 24% rollback being a permanent fixture. Despite their changes to arbitration and entry level contracts, the NHLPA controls the price of the product.
What NHL counter offer? They are still proposing the $31Mil 54% they origianlly did. Thats what the hard line Jacobs position is. With guaranteed profits, the interest rate on their line of credit and bonuses for the lawyers are higher.
The NHLPA controls the price of the product? Thats a laugh
There is no free market in the NHL, one would have to be terrifically dense not to have that figured out by now.
You have to be terrifically dense to still not get this. There is a marketplace for labour. Its a highly regulated marketplace that takes away a lot of the players rights and allows the owners to own the players as property and sell their rights for profit. The owners completely set this marketplace.
The players want the protection of the CBA, they want their minimum salary, their arbitration rights, and their guaranteed salaries. Or as you would word it , players want an IDIOT PROOF CBA that gives them a GUARANTEED contract to protect INCOMPETENT players who then don't have to worry about DOING THEIR JOB RIGHT.
What a load of nonsense.
A guaranteed contract? As opposed to what type of contract. Why is it necessary to put the word guaranteed in front of contract. Isnt that somewhat redundant? Are you saying that if you sign a player to a contract, he can just leave in the middle of it for a better offer if he gets it? After all, there's no guarantee.
The owners have all the power to make the decisions they need to manage their budgets and build their teams. No, every team, cant afford every player, any time they want. They have to operate as a business making business decision. Horrors. How can the owners be expected to do that? How unfair. What an unfair standard we hold them to.
What you want is to gather all the players in an arena at the end of the year, drop a billion dollars from the ceiling and make them fight over it. I know sounds appealing doent it? How can that not be a good idea?