RangerBoy
Dolan sucks!!!
Several players and others with knowledge of the union's thinking agree that one concession the league should consider is grandfathering current contracts.
The league's fight for cost certainty is not about what was spent in the past but what it can afford to spend in the future. Commissioner Gary Bettman has said that several times throughout the course of this lockout, which, for those few masochistic souls keeping score, will on Friday become the longest shutdown in North American sports history when it passes the 1994 baseball strike at 233 days.
And as it has dragged on, what the players have feared most even after accepting a salary cap is the initial cause-and-effect a cap will have on team rosters. Imagine fire sales that would put Howard Milstein to shame.
The players are wary of the future under the restrictions of a cap system, but finally have accepted that there is no other way. The league can ease this transition and recover some of the respect it has lost in the eyes of the players
http://www.newsday.com/sports/print...78may01,0,6730817.column?coll=ny-sports-print
If grandfathering on existing contracts is something the players want,I do not see why the NHL will balk at this.If the players agree to a cap and linkage,the NHL needs to offer instead of just taking back
The league's fight for cost certainty is not about what was spent in the past but what it can afford to spend in the future. Commissioner Gary Bettman has said that several times throughout the course of this lockout, which, for those few masochistic souls keeping score, will on Friday become the longest shutdown in North American sports history when it passes the 1994 baseball strike at 233 days.
And as it has dragged on, what the players have feared most even after accepting a salary cap is the initial cause-and-effect a cap will have on team rosters. Imagine fire sales that would put Howard Milstein to shame.
The players are wary of the future under the restrictions of a cap system, but finally have accepted that there is no other way. The league can ease this transition and recover some of the respect it has lost in the eyes of the players
http://www.newsday.com/sports/print...78may01,0,6730817.column?coll=ny-sports-print
If grandfathering on existing contracts is something the players want,I do not see why the NHL will balk at this.If the players agree to a cap and linkage,the NHL needs to offer instead of just taking back