Beakermania said:
so i think they need to explore other directions.
No they don't!
It's the owners money, and if they feel a salary cap is the only way to help the league and it's franchises, they damn well better hold tight for a salary cap.
As for the bullcrap about unreported revenues, I have this to say:
If it isn't directly related to the hockey game, or the fans of hockey, it shouldn't be counted as hockey revenue.
Chances are if the hockey team wasn't there, the arena wouldn't be there, and that car show that brought in $6 million wouldn't have happened. At the same time, if the hockey team was there, and the arena was there, and the car show didn't happen, that $6 million wouldn't have been there.
It's not hockey revenue. The players didn't do a damn thing to get that car show there. They just happened to have signed a contract to live in a city that was owned by a guy who owned the arena the car show was in.
It should be disgutingly obvious to the players that they don't earn the money they are making. They get routinely out-drawn in their biggest market by frigging spelling bees!
I'm sorry, but if your worthless butt can't provide enough entertainment that 13 year olds spelling words you will never use, you sure as hell shouldn't be making the money they do.
I'd be completely humiliated if I was an NHL player, and more people watched Jimmy Simpleton from West Virginia spell photosynthesis than they did me playing hockey.
That is what these players don't understand... most of the people in the cities they play in couldn't give a rat's butt about them. Most of them don't know they exist... yet these guys think they deserve the money they get?
If they truely cared about the future players, they would do their absolute best to make the NHL successful... and they are failing miserably at that!