Oh, have a guess. I spent most of yesterday removing posts from you because of racist generalisations, and you direct one at me. Grow up.
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Well Andy, looks like the hope of any sort of an NHL season is surely down the pipes. The Players' Association and the owners say that no future meetings are scheduled, so I assume that's it.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=114434
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=114434
Don't give me this "Ohh, hockey, ohh Hockey." Bullshit, all of it.
If you want to talk about over-paid players, do not talk about football, do not talk about basketball, do not talk about baseball, talk about hockey.
Every hockey player in the former NHL made more money per capita of fan base than did any other professional athlete in America. So when you want to talk about what brought hockey down, do not talk about the businessmen, talk about the greedy players.
That is why the NHL had to shut down a couple of the teams, because the team owners were going bankrupt. Messier couldn't feed his family on $3 M a year, yea well those are the types of people that brought down that sport.
I mean do not get me wrong. I like hockey, I respect those who play, it takes big brass balls to go out there day in and day out and get your bleedin' teeth knocked out, and your brainwaves smashed by a blind-sided left hook.
If you want to talk about over-paid players, do not talk about football, do not talk about basketball, do not talk about baseball, talk about hockey.
Every hockey player in the former NHL made more money per capita of fan base than did any other professional athlete in America. So when you want to talk about what brought hockey down, do not talk about the businessmen, talk about the greedy players.
That is why the NHL had to shut down a couple of the teams, because the team owners were going bankrupt. Messier couldn't feed his family on $3 M a year, yea well those are the types of people that brought down that sport.
I mean do not get me wrong. I like hockey, I respect those who play, it takes big brass balls to go out there day in and day out and get your bleedin' teeth knocked out, and your brainwaves smashed by a blind-sided left hook.
Of course its partly the player's fault, and this is the case in every sport in today's world; the players always want more. However in the case of the NHL the blame rests on the shoulders of the commisioner Bettman, for the reason you stated above. Bettman put clubs in places that could not support hockey teams; places like Phoenix and Miami, places that have no market for hockey at all. Moreover, Bettman decided to put teams in places that could not support hockey to begin with, as in the case of Atlanta and Minnesota- the latter continues to baffle me. All of these stupid expansion decisions on the part of Bettman brought the game down because these new clubs could not compete with the likes of the Red Wings, Avalanche, and other well-known clubs. So these teams are not doing well, and their fan base if at all one did not show up to see their teams lose, which means that these clubs and the NHL loses money. All of these smaller clubs wanted a salary cap because they could not compete, however frankly that does not matter because they were not making much money in the first place. So this disaster rests on the shoulders of a greedy imbecile who knows nothing about hockey- Gary Bettman.
Hockey is not bullshit at all, do not turn into one of those hicks who love baseball and can only understand a sport where cars go around in circles for hours. Hockey is the fastest real sport on earth, and one of the most exciting. Problem is nobody can understand it because their minds are too slow, or completely nonexistent.
