pepty
Let's win it all
- Feb 22, 2005
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Pretty good article summing up the discussion in my point of view.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nhl--n...cs-and-pr-stunts-instead-of-settling-cba.html
That was an interesting article.Nice little breakdown of the PA proposals:
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By holding out, the players got the owners to make two straight proposals, to negotiate against themselves, to get about where we thought they were headed all along. Kudos. They created an opportunity.
They didn't seize it. They blew it.
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The players' first two proposals involve a lot of math, but they boil down to this – they depend on future growth........... protects what the players have already. It puts all the responsibility and risk on the owners
The players' third proposal sounded reasonable. ...........
"It is not a 50/50 deal," deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement. ..... The proposal contemplates paying the players approximately $650 million outside of the players' share. In effect, the union is proposing to change the accounting rules to be able to say '50/50,' when in reality it is not. The union told us that they had not yet 'run the numbers.' We did."