Leafs No Longer Keeping Facilities Open in Off Season:

[TheBeastCoast]

at this quote "We don't like that" as if that should matter at all. You don't like that Toronto's playera are getting better? We don't like that other teams have good players. I propose no good hockey players are allowed.

That is hilarious. We haven't won a f***ing round and we are somehow the boogie man around the league.

 

[kb]

It's Jacobs' league....the Leafs are just existing in it.

 

[Morbo]

guess teams are noticing the Leafs finally move in the right direction and aren't liking what they see.

 

[paulhiggins]

Yet I bet close to 100% of the Leaf players ratified the deal.

 

[LeafsOHLRangers98]

guess teams are noticing the Leafs finally move in the right direction and aren't liking what they see.

Well you look at the Habs, who haven't developed a single significant player in Laval in recent years, and then look at our record when it comes to developing late round guys into decent NHL players through the Marlies.

Next there will be a cap on how many specialized coaches or skill sessions we can do. Ridiculous stuff.

 

[Morbo]

I think quietly there is definitely resentment about the type of coin the Leafs can throw around off-ice, among other things. These two recent incidents are examples of that resentment bubbling to the surface. The Leafs have financial options available that most teams don't, and let's be honest, money has played a major factor in their turnaround. Enormous sums were spent on bringing in Shanahan/Lou/Babs, on player buyouts, on facilities for the players, etc to get us moving in the right direction. More recently, the ability of the Leafs to pay huge sums up front via signing bonus is not something every team can do either.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

Who knew teams with a financial advantage would provide the best resources available to gain a competitive advantage?

The league always catering/pandering to the lesser lights of the league pisses me off.

 

[1specter]

This is the only league that punishes its wealthiest team, even though it's helping garbage teams stay afloat.

 

[leafsfan5]

This is one of the dumbest things I've seen

 

[Primary Assist]

So can the league make an adjustment for all the teams that play in no income tax states? Or are they just going to arbitrarily decide which inherent advantages are fair?

 

[Buds17]

Hopefully the Cup win isn't going to ruffle any feathers!

 

[IPS]

And people seriously think the league isn't biased against the Leafs.

Tell me - what other professional sport would do something like this to their biggest money-making team?

That building is property of the Leafs, how the f*** is it the NHL's business to tell the Leafs when and where they can use it? Good god is this f***ing dumb.

 

[IPS]

Just for once - could MLSE not be gutless and tell the league to piss off?

 

[Cleetus]

So can the league make an adjustment for all the teams that play in no income tax states? Or are they just going to arbitrarily decide which inherent advantages are fair?

yea somehow they left that out of the new CBA what a joke....

 

[Mickey Marner]

Lol, so we're no longer allowed to do something that everyone was allowed to do but chose not to.

 

[Canadian Game]

This new rule is probably one of the most backward-thinking ideas the league could come up with. If anything, more teams should have made the option available rather than complain of unfairness. What team wouldn’t want players to condition on their own time during offseasons?

 

[Matty Sundin]

I’d like to know what teams complained since I doubt leafs were the only team to do this.

 

[biotk]

It would be difficult to find a more perfect example as to why this league will never compete with leagues like the NBA, NFL etc for revenue. They have no interest in growing the game - just fighting with each other over scraps.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

And people seriously think the league isn't biased against the Leafs.

Tell me - what other professional sport would do something like this to their biggest money-making team?

That building is property of the Leafs, how the f*** is it the NHL's business to tell the Leafs when and where they can use it? Good god is this f***ing dumb.

I don't think it's just the leafs, but the league is determined to make every team completely mediocre

 

[meefer]

Foot meet bullet. Asinine, petty, and cheap, the league in a nutshell.

 

[Brown Dog]

 

[LeafsOHLRangers98]

Who knew teams with a financial advantage would provide the best resources available to gain a competitive advantage?

The league always catering/pandering to the lesser lights of the league pisses me off.

Yea the thing that pisses me off the most is that every team could afford to keep their training facilities open in the summer because of revenue sharing.

For example Florida would got a cheque for $150M at the end of a season recently.

All the teams could develop their players this way. Greedy owners are preventing it from happening, while at the same time trying to say nobody else should be allowed to do it either.

 

[Jozay]

So a team cant even use their own facilities in the offseason anymore?

Whats next, players cant see the team doctors in the summer?

Really weird rule. Even weirded that teams had a problem with the Leafs doing when they could do it too...

 

[kevsh]

Get a good lawyer to go through the exact wording and I'm sure they will find a way around it.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Yea the thing that pisses me off the most is that every team could afford to keep their training facilities open in the summer because of revenue sharing.

For example Florida would got a cheque for $150M at the end of a season recently.
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Finding that hard to believe, could you post a link to this, the number sounds absurd.