[quote]rainjack wrote:
ESPN is reporting that the season is back on. There will be NHL hockey this season.
Personally, I’d rather watch ProfessorX shorten his vertical leap than support a league full of self-indulgent, overpaid pricks.[/quote]
i can’t wait until they paint the Mario Lemeaux/Wayne Gretzkey saved the day picture… leave it to ESPN to apply a William Urrichio type frame, “famous athletes saves beleaguered league”
and maybe cuz its late, but im not getting the ProfX joke
I am a HUGE HOCKEY FAN myself but I am an ever bigger DETROIT REDWINGS FAN.
I (the huge minority of fans) for one would like the players to stand firm on the No-cap issue until the owners cave by tring to use replacement players no matter how long it takes.
The Redwings roster will be totally obliterated with the CAP system. Right now it is almost DOUBLE of what the propsed CAP is.
I don’t want to cheer for an average team.
[quote]Chewman wrote:
It is about the only sport I watch other than the fights.[/quote]
Great idea, especially since the fights in hockey often last longer than those in a boxing ring.
Wings suck. Go Habs! 
[quote]mindeffer01 wrote:
It may seem strange, but I’m gonna side with the fans. I say screw the owners and the players.When they Decide to come back and play again, we, the fans, should boycott the bastards. Show them all where the real decision making power rests. May drive down ticket prices to a more accessable level while we’re at it.[/quote]
YES! I cannot believe this is the only person to have suggested this. I live right next to the corel center in Ottawa and I have been a big Sens fan since they got here, but hearing all the talk about the lockout every fucking day has made me want to puke. How could so many people be so ridiculously stupid?
This has been a bit of a wake call to me, and I hope to a lot of people. These guys don’t give a shit about the fans. I still plan on following the Senators, but I’ll do it from the comfort of my own home. I urge everyone to do the same. I know it’s not going to happen, but I’d love to see everyone of these guys bankrupt and getting down on their knees to beg the fans to come back.
Boner
[quote]hoosierdaddy wrote:
i can’t wait until they paint the Mario Lemeaux/Wayne Gretzkey saved the day picture… leave it to ESPN to apply a William Urrichio type frame, “famous athletes saves beleaguered league”
and maybe cuz its late, but im not getting the ProfX joke
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Read the 'Sweet Potatoes" thread.
I go to about 4 games a year and enjoy it well enough. The players association made a big mistake. Hello guys,… I know the NFL players make it - but hockey ISN’T the NFL.
The NHL is gutless if they permit one game this season.
Bottom line, like most Americans I don’t care.
[quote]Atreides wrote:
I go to about 4 games a year and enjoy it well enough. The players association made a big mistake. Hello guys,… I know the NFL players make it - but hockey ISN’T the NFL.
The NHL is gutless if they permit one game this season.
Bottom line, like most Americans I don’t care.[/quote]
The courts have gotten involved. I think some hockey-loving judge is going to force the owners and players to have a season this year.
For those that do care, let’s be honest. The NHLPA wouldn’t have their backs to the wall if the NHL did put teams in cities they don’t belong. No matter how successful a team in the south, how many of the players come from anywhere near heat in the winter? Obviously the majority of southerners don’t have the same interest in hockey as the rest of us. Even without doing any research this fact is blatently obvious, so why would anyone put a hockey team in a spot where it’s bound to lose money? The players deserve what they earn when taking the other major sports into consideration.
Keep the blame on who made the mistake in the first place. Force the NHL to suffer their own consequences!
Just a thought.
-DV
Without caps, doesn’t it mean that some smaller, poorer cities where people really love hockey but simply don’t have the huge budgets of other cities may lose their teams?
For example, every Canadian city
Yeah, Screw the selfish bastards. End of season, …closed case.
Forcing the NHL to “suffer the consequences” by ridiculously high salaries is, well, ridiculous. Similarly I find it absurd to compare this situation to other sports, or to compare the players to us in a job situation like has been done before by others.
The NHL is NOT the NBA, NFL, MLBA, etc. Hell, its probably not even Xtreme Skateboarding. The sad truth is that hockey is not overly popular in the states, especially in the southern states. Players are commodities of sorts, but, when there is not significant demand for those commodities, then the price of the commodity(the salary in this case) should slide down to maintain equilibrium. This is basic economic theory.
Now, whether it was smart business or not to open venues in places such as Phoenix, or Dallas, thats another story, however, ridding the league of these venues is not going to solve the problem and could potentially make it worse by alienating the sparse, but still prevalent, southern fan base. Not to mention, it would put alot of players out of jobs. I guess you could say there are two options then, everyone takes a little salary cut, or some guys have their entire salary cut.
I miss the 90’s Pittsburgh Penguins. They had some of the worst financial issues going for them, yet for some time, put on very decent hockey. A number of the players were making below what other teams might have paid them, for the sake of the club, and when Mario Lemiux took over he even got on the ice. True, eventually a number of them moved on, but, I still have respect for the effort that was put in there by the players. For a team of mostly nobodies, with money issues, they sure kicked some ass.
For people who are lucky enough to be near a NCAA team go the tix are cheap in comparison and the hockey is good, I’ll grant you not NHL playoff caliber but I’ve been to two Frozen Fours and it’s better then any Bruins playoff game I have ever attended. Now living in Vegas I say go Wranglers.
[quote]rainjack wrote:
ESPN is reporting that the season is back on. There will be NHL hockey this season.[/quote]
ESPN is full of it.
No hockey for you! Come back, one year!
[quote]John K wrote:
Without caps, doesn’t it mean that some smaller, poorer cities where people really love hockey but simply don’t have the huge budgets of other cities may lose their teams?
For example, every Canadian city :)[/quote]
I find that an odd statement, John, as the Toronto Maple Leafs have the highest revenues in the league.
[quote]Nathan Devey wrote:
John K wrote:
Without caps, doesn’t it mean that some smaller, poorer cities where people really love hockey but simply don’t have the huge budgets of other cities may lose their teams?
For example, every Canadian city
I find that an odd statement, John, as the Toronto Maple Leafs have the highest revenues in the league.[/quote]
Well not every Canadian city, just some like Edmonton and Calgary. Edmonton didn’t trade all their great players because they couldn’t play, it was because they couldn’t afford them.
What gets me, is how did Minnesota get another franchise? The Stars seemed to do fine once they moved to Dallas.