Chelios
Registered User
The thing that I don`t understand with the CBA negotiations is how the NHLPA can absolutely and completely reject any type of cap or "cost certainty" as the owners put it. Who do they think they are? I mean here is a league that is barely even hanging on as being one of the four major league sports in North America and consistently has lower ratings than the likes of bowling and poker. Two of the other major leagues (NBA and NFL) that are much better off financially, not to mention way way more popular, already have some sort of cap in place. It boggles my mind how the NHLPA can have the arrogance to say that they will absolutely never accept a cap when two other much more popular and profitable leagues have already done so. I don`t want to hear about how the owners in those respective leagues broke the unions etc etc... The point is that the precedent is set in two of the other 4 major sports so I really don`t understand how the NHLPA will not accept any sort of cap.
It would be one thing if the owners were insisting on a cap with no precedent in North American professional sports, but here the "other" major league is refusing to accept what the two most popular major leagues have already have. I just don`t get it
It would be one thing if the owners were insisting on a cap with no precedent in North American professional sports, but here the "other" major league is refusing to accept what the two most popular major leagues have already have. I just don`t get it