NHL… R.I.P
Well it’s official. From ESPN’s NHL site.
So the season is over and no body knows if there will be a season next year. What a bunch of crap. In the end they were 6.5 million apart from an agreement. Hell most of the players make more than that, so that’s one player’s salary for a year. And they couldn’t come to an agreement. After all this time the union finally caves in and says they’ll accept a cap. Why the hell couldn’t they have just accepted it last summer, or fall, or in December? All that time bluffing to finally be called on it. It’s crap that people (both players and owners) deal with that much money and can’t figure something out. It’ll be interesting to see what happens now. The players are out of work, what do they do for money?? Some are playing over seas in the European leagues. But with no immediate pressure or incentive to get this resolved, will it ever be done? Or will the players union go back to saying no cap? Guess we’ll just have to wait to find out.
It sucks ! I know a few people that work at the dome, that have been on reduced salary sense the strike started, and now that the season is cancelled who knows ?? The damage they are doing to the game is mounting literally by the day. They are the first professional sports league IN HISTORY to lose a whole season due to a work stopage. No sympathy for either side here, It’s millionaires vs. millionaires, whatever happened to “for the love of the game”.
A Ticked Canadian
Comment by Steveo — 2/18/2005 @ 12:46 pm