Um the NHL season is cancelled for real, for real.
The two sides met for 6 hours in NYC and decided they werent going to get anywhere and are now focused on getting a 2005-06 season. Although, who knows how serious they will make their efforts once they part ways tonight.
No idea what the fall out this time was since a cap of $45 or $46 seemed to be on the table. People were flying high last night and were thinking pucks were going to be dropped March 2nd.
The whacky ride of will they or won't they might have finally come to an end.
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I hope hockey comes back eventually, but I hope it's not the NHL. Those bastards have killed it. The NHLPA caved on damn near everything, and it still wasn't good enough. Maybe the players were unreasonable to begin with, but at this point, the cancellation of the season is entirely the owners' fault. Entirely.
Well things are looking terrible EPSN's contract with the NHL is up in April. According to an article I read today. The poker on EPSN ratings are hot, and the dog show on USA is beating out the NHL finals from last year.
Yeah, Drew the owners were really being hard nosed. Your right.
Don't totally buy into the NHLPA PR we aren't the bad guys though. Its their fault for being unreasonable about the cap for the whole lockout till last week.
Not to mention they are the ones that made players go to arbitration which the owners would always lose. They are the ones that encouraged players to hold out.
I mean really the owners had like 3 options.
1. Let them rot in the minors, then finally give in when their team goes to hell.
2. Trade their rights to another team who will pay the little baby what he wants.
3. Take it to arbitration and lose anyway.
Yeah so they did over pay a lot, but they often times have their backs against the wall. The owners needed something on an employee they invested millions of dollars in. So, what are you going to do?
Id like the NHL to come back, since another league would have all different teams. etc.
I would really love for Bobby Hull to launch the WHA, because if there is no NHL season by October. I will try my best to follow them. HOwever, the NHL is the best bet if we want to keep hockey remotely close to us.
Sure, the players and the NHLPA share some of the blame both for starting the lockout and for creating the problems that led to it. But as far as I can see, there is one side that truly tried to save the season, and it wasn't the owners. You could easily blame the lockout on both sides, and even blame the players more if you want, but I still say that the cancellation is entirely the fault of the owners.
Drew, have you heard what the hangup was in the last meeting?
I just keep reading vauge articles that say they couldn't get it done. As far as I know they said no new offers were made. So, does that mean $45 million was never on the table? If so what was the point of meeting again? I thought that WAS the whole point.
Anyway, yeah its pretty clear for whatever reason the owners didnt want to play. Not sure if they didnt want to play an insanely short season or none at all.
Seems to me that a lot went down that we didnt know about. Some owners wanted to play, but some didnt. Whatever......
Lets go SOUL!
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