You don't need to be making $30M to be living well during this lockout? And I did a quick little search off the top of my head
Modano $58,466,400
Guerin 32, 159,536
Sakic $68,857,973
Belfour $44,932,000
Sundin $54,787,526
Hull $53,741,000
Nolan $35, 150,500
Palffy $32, 760,000
Pronger $48, 175,000
Allison $30, 200,000
Of course then there are the ones who've made over $10M and are probably just scrapping by right?
Theodore $14,619,968
Iginla $20,025,000
Arnott $21,578,200
Thorton $13,825,000
Doan $12,160,000
Lehtinen $14,700,000
Bure (Val) $13,765,325
Hatcher $29, 865,000
Naslund $20,551,000
Salo $16,375,000
Numminen $29,378,146
Sullivan $12,025,000
Therien $13,525,000
Amonte $29,188,754
Peca $15,676,273
Barnes $12,512,161
Kovalev $24,825,000
Carney $12,629,000
Prospal $11,475,000
Nieuwendyk $29,545,317
Marchant $18,899,601
There are many more, but those are the ones I pulled up in 5 minutes, and as you can see there are more than a "small fraction" of players who have this kind of money.
But remember..... they make enough money in one year that you could live off for the rest of your life, so why shouldn't they be able to?????
Go ahead and think its nonscense, but in two or three years when these players are still locked out and there is still no NHL hockey many more of them will have no problem paying their bills. Plus of course I am not counting the $5-10,000 a month they can draw from the union fund.
Point is the players have enough money to also go without working and maybe they don't have any money coming in, but they still can live for a very long time, very comfortably on this kind of money.
So in two or three years when there is still no hockey and the courts won't issue an impasse, who wins then? How do the owners win then?
Problem is anyone who isn't in bed with the owners is just spewing nonscense in your opinion when in reality its just a difference of opinion. Its too bad you can't comprehend that concept. Its really quite simple.