Donald Fehr always out to destroy sports

[DwightShrute]

You don't know who Tyler Myers is? He makes an average of $5.5 million per.

never heard of him

Pucker look at the list again

1. Shea Weber (Nashville Predators) $14 million
2. Tyler Myers (Buffalo Sabres) $12 million
3. Zach Parise (Minnesota Wild) $12 million
4. Brad Richards (New York Rangers) $12 million
5. Ryan Suter (Minnesota Wild) $12 million

if that doesn't tell you that something is broken then I don't know what to say anymore.

[PuckOff]

Shruter,
You need to look at the avg yearly salary and not the front loaded salary.

[muldoon]

well doesn't that put it into perspective? Players are greedier imo. Who the Fukk is Tyler Myers anyways?

Players are greedier???? They agreed to a cap, and the owners pay within the cap. Owners agreed to a market they said would allow them to be profitable - period.

[muldoon]

Owners hated this "unmanageable" CBA so much, they signed 200 million worth of these "unworkable" contracts in the 72 hours before the lockout.

[Chi_archie]

this is not good

[DwightShrute]

Players are greedier???? They agreed to a cap, and the owners pay within the cap. Owners agreed to a market they said would allow them to be profitable - period.

both are to blame. Maybe greedier wasn't the right word. They are being greedy also. They get 57% and owners get 43%. 50/50 sounds fair to me.

[muldoon]

both are to blame. Maybe greedier wasn't the right word. They are being greedy also. They get 57% and owners get 43%. 50/50 sounds fair to me.

50/50 sounds fair - here's the problem.

Owners went from 57% in the current CBA, to offering 43%.

Any honest revenue sharing requires transparency. Anyone who remembers the last work stoppage will recall how the owners fought tooth and nail to restrict 3rd party access to their books, and certain owners (NYI owners Wang) were rightfully suspected of wildly inflating operation costs.

People blame Fehr or Bettman, but both are just representatives. Bettman was tasked with bringing in a cap last time - it took a year of no hockey, but he got it. Fehr is not some rogue agent causing sh**.

Unlike sports like NFL & MLB, a lot of NHL players have decent options outside their league.

The lowball 43% offer will end up being 49.5% or something where the owners claw back a big chunk from the previous CBA.

Every so often, each league reminds fans that while they might thank them at every chance they get, it's a business - and nothing more. One only need look at how a billion dollar revenue league like the NFL is willing to use inexperienced refs over relatively nothing in terms of $$ percentage - purely to make a point.

When it finally ends, NHL Fans will line up again to buy Jerseys, $200 seats along the glass and $10 beer.

[agendaman]

jj stay out of canada i mean that and brock dont EVER talk about canada/hockey youre not qualified hey al-quaeda will never sabotage anything in canada look at all these worldwide protests all vs. americans read up on the french revolution another one coming im a canadian citizen gone still draw 2 checks from us. though plenty of bookies/casinos in canada