NHL.com is going to stream the news conference about the status of the NHL. SHould start any minute...
if anyone cares about the NHL
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I don't have audio on my PC at work, so keep us posted.
Care about the what? What is this NHL that you speak of?
Netherland Hooker League?
Netherland Hooker League?
the season is officially cancelled.
But, on the bright side... Gary Bettman is very sorry about the situation.
:eviltongu at GB.
But, on the bright side... Gary Bettman is very sorry about the situation.
:eviltongu at GB.
Thanks to the NHL for screwing up! Stupid management and greedy players. Great. Wait til its the least popular "major" sport and then try and kill it by cancelling the season. Idiots. I love hockey, but this is absurd.
I'm a little bummed, but not that torn up over this. Both sides have screwed up royally here.
FYI, hockey is below NASCAR on the popularity scale in this country, and it's not that close.
FYI, hockey is below NASCAR on the popularity scale in this country, and it's not that close.
I need some kind of televised hockey to watch. Perhaps FSN needs to start airing Swedish and Swiss elite league games, as well as Canadian Major Junior, and NCAA games. I hope this costs Bettman his job.
I Are Baboon said:
I believe NASCAR is second only to the NFL in popularity, the NHL lags well behind all other professional sports as well.
Yeah, I meant to imply that hockey ranks fifth. You really think NASCAR is above the NBA and MLB?PonySoldier said:
Hell, I think Major League Soccer is catching up to the NHL.
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They should have craft shows in the arenas. Piss on the NHL.
I Are Baboon said:Yeah, I meant to imply that hockey ranks fifth. You really think NASCAR is above the NBA and MLB?
Hell, I think Major League Soccer is catching up to the NHL.
I read an article recently on this, however I cannot find it at the moment and if memory serves NASCAR is second only to the NFL.
Interesting. It does not surprise me though. NASCAR tracks have been going up all over the place in recent years. I hear they are going to build one on New York's Coney Island, too.PonySoldier said:
One money grubbing 'professional sport' down, many more to go...
The player's union offered to take a %50 pay cut. The greed is on the part of the owners.N8 said:
Enginerd A2 said:
How about playing hockey for the love of the game?
I don't blame them for not wanting a hard cap. The owners wanted something similar to the NFL, the players wanted something similar to the NBA. I think football is the only sport that's actually more dangerous than hockey.
It is really too bad. Hockey was getting somewhat popular, what with an 82 game season, and expansion teams popping up all over the place. Maybe they got too big too fast, and this is the result of expansion..too many players and owners forgetting why they are in the arena, and how they got there in the first place...
I for one, think that this just put a bullet in the flogged horse that is the NHL. At least in U.S. markets.
Just a quick search:
average salaries
NHL-1.3m (if the season continued)
NBA-4.1m
NFL-1.17m-but only 16 games
MLB-2.26m-gotta factor in the Yankees.
and, just for fun-
WNBA-46-60,000 U.S. Dollars.
I for one, think that this just put a bullet in the flogged horse that is the NHL. At least in U.S. markets.
Just a quick search:
average salaries
NHL-1.3m (if the season continued)
NBA-4.1m
NFL-1.17m-but only 16 games
MLB-2.26m-gotta factor in the Yankees.
and, just for fun-
WNBA-46-60,000 U.S. Dollars.
qualude said:
Even we here in Louisiana have a hockey team... the MudBugs.
N8 said:
However said the players offered a 50% pay cut was wrong it was 24%. Either way it was just a start. To cancel the season over a 6 mil. cap difference was a idiot move but basically Bettman is getting what he wants.
1) he will break the NHLPA and Goodenow will get fired for agreeing to a cap which was the reason for the lockout in the first place.
2) Scabs will start the next season and many players will cross the line and come back.
3) he will get his cap.
Bettman has ruined this game by expansion and trying to make it a family game. Until he is gone and his rule regime is expelled the league will never take off.
What Bettman should have said in his speech:
"It is with great regret that I must confess that my attempts to turn the NHL into a NBA like product have failed. I will now step down as commissioner of the NHL. I have failed to make hockey a family sport which traditional fans told me it wasn't. I watered down the league through rapid expansion and the instigator rule. I have caused owners to file for bankruptcy by allowing teams in markets where they had no chance in surviving. This has all lead to the owners locking out players over the cost certainty. The only thing good I did was to break up the NHLPA in its current form and force the election of a new union head. Hopefully in the next year the new commissioner and his NHLPA counterpart can create a CBA that works and contract 4 teams, modify the rules to increase scoring, and encourage on ice policing. Thank you for allowing me to ruin your great sport, I will now go hang myself from the rafters of the Air Canada Center. You may do whatever you wish with my body"
1) he will break the NHLPA and Goodenow will get fired for agreeing to a cap which was the reason for the lockout in the first place.
2) Scabs will start the next season and many players will cross the line and come back.
3) he will get his cap.
Bettman has ruined this game by expansion and trying to make it a family game. Until he is gone and his rule regime is expelled the league will never take off.
What Bettman should have said in his speech:
"It is with great regret that I must confess that my attempts to turn the NHL into a NBA like product have failed. I will now step down as commissioner of the NHL. I have failed to make hockey a family sport which traditional fans told me it wasn't. I watered down the league through rapid expansion and the instigator rule. I have caused owners to file for bankruptcy by allowing teams in markets where they had no chance in surviving. This has all lead to the owners locking out players over the cost certainty. The only thing good I did was to break up the NHLPA in its current form and force the election of a new union head. Hopefully in the next year the new commissioner and his NHLPA counterpart can create a CBA that works and contract 4 teams, modify the rules to increase scoring, and encourage on ice policing. Thank you for allowing me to ruin your great sport, I will now go hang myself from the rafters of the Air Canada Center. You may do whatever you wish with my body"
The players are just as much to blame.
"We won't take a cap!"
And then half of them go to Europe, and play under a salary cap...
"We won't take a cap!"
And then half of them go to Europe, and play under a salary cap...
Only people that care about hockey are the Canadians...
Too bad two out of five Canadian cities with NHL franchises can barely support them... I care about hockey, too. And I was way off about the salary cut the players union was going to take. 24% is right.dh girlie said:Only people that care about hockey are the Canadians...
I don't care for hockey so oh well. Now if they could find a way to cancel the NBA for the rest of eternity, we'll be in good shape