MacArthur to Germany...
JVR possibly to Finland if progress is not made soon
MacArthur to Germany...
If they offered a phased cap or a capped escrow, the players might view that as enough. The owners don't give up anything other than delayed increased earnings, and the players feel like they get full value on their inked contracts.
Last part of your post, and it sounds stupid: their own hotel room.
They are on the brink of losing a portion of the season, not the whole thing.
Not yet, at least.
Pierre LeBrun @Real_ESPNLeBrun
NHLPA has 5 pm ET internal conference call with players' negotiating committee and executive board to update them on things
@CellyHardAppare: @NoNHLLockout12 #NHLPA has a conference call this evening between representatives within their own group to update offer made last week #NHL
Player flood gates leaving opening
Goodbye hope
@CellyHardAppare: @NoNHLLockout12 #NHLPA has a conference call this evening between representatives within their own group to update offer made last week #NHL
Player flood gates leaving opening
Goodbye hope
@botchford: All Canucks unaware of the 48-hour window they had to call GMs. Malhotra says he would have called GMMG if he knew
Why? Look at the bolded statement in the tweet
Why? Look at the bolded statement in the tweet
Kevin Allen (USA Today):
"What needs to happen for the lockout to end?
1. Individual contracts have to be honored
Players are more unified on this issue than they were about preventing a salary cap in 2004-05. It has become a rallying cry, a symbol of solidarity, and owners have no one to blame but themselves. "
http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1650627?preferredArticleViewMode=single
Seeing all.these players continue to.sign.overseas doesn't seem to.bode any positive news
Glad to see the players are all being well informed. Great way to make important decisions.
They were so unified that there was a coup and 18% of the players ended up voting no cap. Meanwhile individual contracts are not being honored because they are not going to get paid for (x)% of their salary this year, and (x) could easily equal 100 if they play their cards right.
"The issue is not one single thing," says Ian Pulver, a former NHLPA lawyer-turned player agent. "The issues are greater than that. The NHL has had record revenues, but they want the players to take less. No one wants to lose money, but this is greater than one or two pay cheques.
"The union accepted a partnership with the league and were told they could trust the league; that's what happened in 2004. When was the last time the league talked about partnership?
"This is about respect and fairness," Pulver continued. "These were the very people that said the players could trust them and believe them and now they want to cut their pay cheques? Where is going to end?"
It's a great question. Optimists in the crowd, those foolish enough to believe that rational minds will prevail, thought the answer would come this week in a boardroom in New York City. With the presence of a deadline, bargaining would ensue and with each side standing to benefit there would be a real possibility that blades would hit ice by the weekend.
Instead there's been no meetings planned. The well is only getting further poisoned.
There are no answers in sight.
Fine, make the pool $300 million, but regardless, the player's share has to come down. The entire operating income of the top 10 teams last year was only $248 million. Everyone else near or in the negative.
Unless we're going to move towards some sort of totally socialist system, the top 10 should be able to keep a good chunk of their money.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl-lockout/2012/10/23/grange_cba_not_all_about_money/
Grange's article doesn't make this sound good at all:
You've moved pretty far away from the free market when you cap a team's payroll.