Ex-NHLPA president predicts months-long shutdown

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Originally posted 08:55 AM ET  06.07 by Swamp Dragon

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pulled a kinger

I would be all for losing a couple months if it meant Bettman getting fired. How could you have 2 consecutive lockouts and keep your job?

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Originally posted 09:10 AM ET  06.07 by DurkDiggler

I would be all for losing a couple months if it meant Bettman getting fired. How could you have 2 consecutive lockouts and keep your job?

Exactly.

Bunch of aholes!

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Originally posted 09:10 AM ET  06.07 by DurkDiggler

I would be all for losing a couple months if it meant Bettman getting fired. How could you have 2 consecutive lockouts and keep your job?

the proverbial horns of dilemma.
Would I want to see the little useless piece of garbage inefficient troll gone?
Absolutely
But losing 2 months of hockey and of credibility as a "real" sport?

QUOTE(#6):

Originally posted 09:10 AM ET  06.07 by DurkDiggler

I would be all for losing a couple months if it meant Bettman getting fired. How could you have 2 consecutive lockouts and keep your job?

I would ask how could he stoop that low but that would just open it up for short jokes

No one is touching on the fact that Linden is just preemptively deflecting the blame for the union not being willing to compromise.

The NHLPA again is going to put the goal of winning a couple of extra dollars ahead of long term growth. When the league has some stability, begins to rake in big TV dollars and makes itself more popular in large areas of the US as well as Canada, the dollars will begin to flow unendingly into the players' wallets. Until then it makes no sense to threaten a work stoppage on every single issue. Realignment for example. Bettman........a jerk no argument. Fehr is even worse.

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Originally posted 09:34 AM ET  06.07 by Slapshot

The NHLPA again is going to put the goal of winning a couple of extra dollars ahead of long term growth. When the league has some stability, begins to rake in big TV dollars and makes itself more popular in large areas of the US as well as Canada, the dollars will begin to flow unendingly into the players' wallets. Until then it makes no sense to threaten a work stoppage on every single issue. Realignment for example. Bettman........a jerk no argument. Fehr is even worse.

You are spot on here, but it's the american way....NOW NOW NOW....give me my money now.
No matter of the betterment of all, etc.
They need to sow some winter wheat here, and that is so far beyond anyone involved here

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Originally posted 09:17 AM ET  06.07 by Spiny Norman

the proverbial horns of dilemma.Would I want to see the little useless piece of garbage inefficient troll gone?AbsolutelyBut losing 2 months of hockey and of credibility as a "real" sport?

Don't worry. Hockey won't ever take that title of not being a "real sport" over soccer. Sigh.

But I hear you. Gonna follow up a low-rated Final with a lock out? Fabulous!

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Originally posted 09:23 AM ET  06.07 by Rex Racer

No one is touching on the fact that Linden is just preemptively deflecting the blame for the union not being willing to compromise.

True, but he has a very valid point with the ADHD Americans and the competition with other sports for air time.

Kinda like why soccer was never huge in 'Merica till the immigration of the spanish......

Hey maybe a lockout forces contraction; back to original 6

Lord knows the Habs and Leafs need a lift

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Originally posted 09:34 AM ET  06.07 by Slapshot

The NHLPA again is going to put the goal of winning a couple of extra dollars ahead of long term growth. When the league has some stability, begins to rake in big TV dollars and makes itself more popular in large areas of the US as well as Canada, the dollars will begin to flow unendingly into the players' wallets. Until then it makes no sense to threaten a work stoppage on every single issue. Realignment for example. Bettman........a jerk no argument. Fehr is even worse.

These guys are making great money already. Maybe not as compared to the baseball, football and basketball players, but they have seen their salaries rise at a meteoric rate in the last 20 years. The players need to quit their bitchin and grab some reality.

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Originally posted 09:55 AM ET  06.07 by NY Rangers

Hey maybe a lockout forces contraction; back to original 6 Lord knows the Habs and Leafs need a lift

Maybe the best thing to do would be to contract the Leafs and the Habs. That way their legacies couldn't be further tainted.