I wish I could be excited, or outraged, or really torqued off, or otherwise moved by the cancellation of the 04-05 NFL NHL hockey season — but, frankly, unless the Avs are in the Stanley Cup or something, I really don’t pay much attention.
The league and players’ union traded a flurry of proposals and letters Tuesday night, but could never agree on a cap. The players proposed $49 million per team; the owners said $42.5 million.
“We weren’t as close as people were speculating,” Bettman said.
Sure you were. What’s $6.5MM per team between friends?
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Ahem. It’s the NHL, not the NFL. But that just proves the point, doesn’t it?
It’s sad when millionaires can’t play nicely together.
Supposedly the league will lose less money not playing at all…
Yes, the owners should show some discipline but they have proven conclusively that they *can’t*.
Just speculating, but the way I imagine it worked was this:
The owners decided, in years past, on a de facto salary cap. All of them swore up and down they’d stick to it. Then when the time came most of them decided to grab that expensive player or three anyway and take advantage of the losers who kept their promises.
Yawn! I think it comes from growing up in warm places, and from my disdain for athletes whose sportsmanship is so poor that they regularly rely on fisticuffs: I have no interest in Hockey. When I lived in Michigan, the school team where I taught was one of the better college hockey teams in the nation, and the Detroit team was playing for the NHL championship. If two local teams were successful in nearly any other sport, I would have been interested enough to follow the news in the paper and on the web, but my disinterest in Hockey was so strong it could not be overcome. I have less interest in Hockey than in Cricket for crying out loud, and I don’t even really understand how Cricket works! I’m with you Dave, news of the cancellation of the NHL season leaves me unmoved.
My thoughts run sort of like this.