ChinaBandit
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Boo! Hiss!
If the season is even marginally disrupted it will kill this league.
If the season is even marginally disrupted it will kill this league.
NHL Lockout
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Bert Notorius
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one thing for sure, it won't make me want to start watching hockey.
A few major issues need to be resolved between the owners, among those are revenue sharing and reducing the salary cap floor. The two issues are interconnected.
Major market teams, such as the Rangers, have no problem meeting the salary cap floor. However, your small market teams, such as the Lightning, are not easily able to do so. For those teams, even if they make it to the Stanley Cup finals the teams may not turn a profit. So revenue sharing is needed between the major market teams and the small market teams. Which also brings up another issue. What is considered team revenue?
For some teams, they count ticket sales, parking, concessions, and the list goes on and on. Other teams may not count parking or concessions. There either needs to be a standard list or some way of saying all team revenue both directly and indirectly.
This lockout does not bode well for the sport. They MUST realize the fans aren't going to take it and the lockout will do far greater harm than good.
Yes, league revenues are up but one must wonder how much is due to expansion teams and other items.
The owners have to resolve their differences. Otherwise you can't cry poverty when you continue to sign players to ever expanding deals which is another sure fire way to piss off your fans.
Major market teams, such as the Rangers, have no problem meeting the salary cap floor. However, your small market teams, such as the Lightning, are not easily able to do so. For those teams, even if they make it to the Stanley Cup finals the teams may not turn a profit. So revenue sharing is needed between the major market teams and the small market teams. Which also brings up another issue. What is considered team revenue?
For some teams, they count ticket sales, parking, concessions, and the list goes on and on. Other teams may not count parking or concessions. There either needs to be a standard list or some way of saying all team revenue both directly and indirectly.
This lockout does not bode well for the sport. They MUST realize the fans aren't going to take it and the lockout will do far greater harm than good.
Yes, league revenues are up but one must wonder how much is due to expansion teams and other items.
The owners have to resolve their differences. Otherwise you can't cry poverty when you continue to sign players to ever expanding deals which is another sure fire way to piss off your fans.
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I hope the NHL has a season & survives. I'm not a major hockey fan, but nothing beats sudden death OT in a playoff game.
remy_lebeau8
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BOOO!!! They just dont want Detroit to have the winter classic! We arent allowed to have anything cool.
Fuckers
Fuckers
Beco
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Nobody watches hockey until Christmas, right now, everyone is wrapped up in college and pro football.
chalk this up in the " who cares" category
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thør
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Speak for yourself.
Indeed, who cares about football?
Colonel Hogan
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As far as I'm concerned, it's already dead. The owners and players killed it with the last lockout five or six years ago or whenever it was. I haven't paid a bit of attention to the NHL since then.
LiFeNdEaTh
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i never liked hockey..... the only thing good about that sport is the fights.
Wrong Element
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I really don't think the salary floor is a major issue for anybody. If any team is having trouble there, it's because they aren't drawing well, and I don't see a problem with an entity in the entertainment business drawing a small crowd for its failure to entertain.
It's true there's unequal revenue among the teams, but if I'm an NHL player, I'm probably thinking, "OK, so why is this my problem? Figure it out amongst yourselves." The owners want to reduce what they're paying players and it's understandable why that interests them, but all that would do is lower the costs for everyone; it wouldn't equalize revenues at all.
Beco
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Speak for yourself.
yeah ok. But why do they keep doing this? Its the owners that cause the higher salaries, right?
