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As bad as that is Puck, I've got to agree!!
beach bunny
hhhmmm...tough, tough, call.
Raging Russell
gotta agree bunny's because that would mean someone found the fountain of youth and we'd all be in living into our late 100's.
tjlincoln
I'd at least watch game 1......
Spezzial Delivery
... I'd watch that series only on two conditions: ... 1) Ottawa has won a Cup already, and 2) I get to watch Nicky Figgs hoist a Cup after a four game sweep ...
Puddleduck
Sens/Leafs Eastern Conference Final!
Bluejackets/Wild Western Conference Final!
notapuckbunny
for every game of Alfie's last season that I miss because of a lockout, i will be mailing the owners and Buttman, in rotation, a Cleveland Steamer.
Raging Russell
Are We Going To Have A Lockout???
Yes
tjlincoln
Russell why are u picking on a city in the US? it could easily be a Toronto Steamer couldn't it?
tjlincoln
I think it would be more like a Toronto 'Crock of Beans' -- at least, that's how I feel after I've been there. It doesn't have the same ring though.
Kardinal
i doubt the players would be too upset with missing training camp or at least having a much reduced one. don't expect any serious movement on the CBA until into October, IMO.
Raging Russell
we wont see any hockey until late November - American thanksgiving when the NHL's contract with NBC starts. At least we will have the Winter Classic though :)
notapuckbunny
I really like this story, mostly because it echoes a lot of my thoughts on the current "negotiations" (which are nothing of the sort) on the CBA:
Bettman is neighbourhood bully in NHL talks
You have to hand it to Gary Bettman – the man has all the animal bases covered.Bettman has the cheek of a cat burglar, the determination of a pit bull and the stubbornness of a mule. He treats hockey fans like a bunch of monkeys and his latest offer to the NHLPA was pure, unadulterated horse patootie.
All the NHL needs is some meaningful revenue sharing. It needs to tell Ed Snider to stop behaving like the biggest hog at the trough: Snider’s Flyers tried to wreck the small-market Nashville Predators with an absurd offer to restricted free-agent Shea Weber, which the Predators were forced to match.
But Snider is (with Boston’s Jeremy Jacobs) one of the two greedy, big-market owners who have Bettman’s ear. He’s one of those insisting that the system is broken. If that’s true, guys like Snider broke it. And Craig Leipold of the Minnesota Wild, who whines that the system is broken and the Wild aren’t making money because player salaries are too high. This, of course, was right before Leipold signed Zach Parise and Ryan Suter to ridiculous deals.
If the NHL owners have problems, they’re entirely of their own making. The league has never been healthier or richer. There is no reason for the absurd offers Bettman is making, no reason for a lockout, no reason to lose another season.
Kardinal
Thanks for posting Kardinal. I saw Logan Couture tweet the link this morning. The excerpts you copied were great. I also like this:
Dumbest fan comment on the pending lockout: “The players are a bunch of overpaid bums. I’d play for free.”
We must have seen that one in the comment strings 100 times already and the lockout hasn’t even started.
Truth is, guys, you wouldn’t play for free – even if you had the talent, which you don’t. You wouldn’t stand up to the stress of 100 brutally difficult games every year, you wouldn’t help earn $3.3 billion for the owners last year, you wouldn’t risk the dark underworld of concussions night after night, you wouldn’t put world-class skills on display for free.
All that is a lot of horse hockey and the guys who are saying it are a bunch of pathetic wannabes who haven’t done their homework. NHL players lay it on the line every night. Their seasons are like running a marathon and getting hit by 230-pound defencemen along the way.
I’d love to see some of these “I’d play for free” numskulls out on an NHL rink, night after night. Humiliating themselves in public, taking NHL hits, seeing how their bodies wear down after even two weeks at that pace. It’s a dumb thing to say, fellas — especially when you can’t back it up.
Once a fool, always a fool: No one, not even Bettman, has treated NHL players the way they were treated by Alan Eagleson.
I am going to side with the athletes on this one obviously and agree with the above excerpt from the article.
notapuckbunny
I agree that unless the players fold, there is little chance of hockey before US Thanksgiving. The players should tell the league that if there is no new agreement signed by say October 1, there will be no winter classic this year. That would hurt the US tv market and cost the owners big bucks.
Senior
Saw this and thought of this thread.
notapuckbunny
Puddleduck
... I guess we have our answer, hunh Gary???
Puddleduck
Politics in sports, its what I live for! literally, this situation is nothing compared to what I experience every day at work.
Can someone honestly tell me they read through the entire now expired CBA? Gotta love those sport and law classes I took in school!
notapuckbunny
... we have options ...
Where's ladies curling?
Senior
where's ladies curling?
... didn't have to be on the list. OF COURSE, we'll watch ladies curling, ... we'll just watch MORE ...
Puddleduck
Tonnes of options: Ottawa 67s games now at the Bank, i'm probably going on Thursday for their home opener.
Save the date boys and come watch me perform on October 27th. Details will be made available soon.
notapuckbunny
Looking for investors for my proposed Ladies Lingerie Curling League. I can't see how it cannot be a success.
Senior
saw this on twitter.
I happen to agree with the first point, the players have a lack of confidence and this is shown by a number of them already signing with other teams. No solidarity! What if they agree to a new agreement in three weeks time? Not that is likely but you never now
notapuckbunny
We all agree with this don't we ;)