Chili
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Again if the increase was 10% & this year 2-3% can we say -7% compare to last year ?
You said above:
Owners will try to decrease salary like they ALREADY DID the last 2 summer.
Salaries INCREASED not DECREASED. The avg salary has been steadily increasing.
Also REVENUE did go up also ? You want the revenues to go up but salaries should never increase ?
Who said salaries should NEVER increase? The ABC contract just expired so revenue is taking a hit. They will only see money from NBC if the broadcasts are profitable. Also, are you aware that there are numerous costs other than player salaries?
4) Rookie signs for 1.24M$ for 3 years gets 10 goals and gets a guarateed minimum increase of 10% if team want to keep him.
Secondly, with easily attainable performance bonuses, Thorton, Kovalchuk, Zherdev, Ruutu, are all making 3-4 million on their first years. EASILY. Fleury for Pittsburg needed to only play a certrain amount of games to clinch 3M$ of bonuses despite a 1.24M$ base salary. After signing him, Patrick outwardly said he felt stupid for having agreed to those bonuses. I'm suprised youre not aware of this!
Already been adressed in the proposal by the NHLPA so stop talking about it. It will be fix !
Addressed? All they said was they are willing to discuss changes. What if it's the same proposal as their luxury tax %'s? The NHLPA compares itself to baseball and rookies in the majors make peanuts compared to some NHL rookies. (if anyone has the avg for each, I'd like to see the numbers). The rookie NHL max, rec'd by quite a few was about $1.2 million (?) , in baseball most rookies receive the major league minimum.
The problem I have is that everyone think someone being overpaid is WRONG but a player being underpaid is OK. There are as many case of players being underpaid as players being overpaid. Somewhere it gets even.
If you believe that then you also believe that 75 % of revenues going to the players is equitable.