sandysan
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- Dec 7, 2011
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I am not putting anything in your mouth son. I am clarifying that I understand your point of view, which you just confirmed in the same post.
I have no interest to go into a shouting match insulting other posters on hfboards, we're all fans of the same game. So thanks for the discussion up until the last post and have a nice day.
I do not think the NHL is a white knight who can do no wrong, that is putting words in my mouth. The NHL has problems, big problems but compared to the IOC they don't even register.
look at this situation objectively, the NHL has made EVERY concession to the IOC and the IOC hansn't made a single concession to the NHL. In fact they made it HARDER for the NHL to participate, not easier.
to do this the IOC has has to completely change the tenets it was founded upon ( amateurism) but it want to keep the old business practices and pretend that the professionals are still somehow amateurs who cannot be compensated lest they be corrupted by money ( money coincidentally that they are fine with taking themselves). And appologists lie you and your ilk say " well that seems fair, its the NHL's fault"
the NHL enriched the IOC for two decades and got ZERO in return, and your gripe is not that the IOC should act like any other business and pay the draw but you have the temerity to insist that this is the NHL's fualt for not continuing to get the shaft in perpetuity in order to prop up the ioc for no return.
big.fat.pass.