Olympic star worries about alienating fans

there is very simple thing to do - extend the current agreement one year, as is, while Rat Furr and Buttramm haggle over the dimes and nickels for 2013-2014.

a work stoppage will - as Miller says - alienate fans

This isn't good if everyone is talking lockout and it's early August.

saw this yesterday....I think it's nonsense
I think....they may work through under the current CBA. Admittedly, I have a fan's optimism, but i think Fehr realises where he is here, and that the NHLPA doesn't carry the weight of MLBPA, etc.

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Originally posted 08:51 AM ET  08.07 by DurkDiggler

This isn't good if everyone is talking lockout and it's early August.

true....but there seems to be none of the vitriol of years past.

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Originally posted 08:53 AM ET  08.07 by Spiny Norman

saw this yesterday....I think it's nonsenseI think....they may work through under the current CBA. Admittedly, I have a fan's optimism, but i think Fehr realises where he is here, and that the NHLPA doesn't carry the weight of MLBPA, etc.

Yes and the last thing the owners want to do is give them a few paychecks before they walk out they will lock them out unless there is a deal in place even if it' to cobntinue with the status quo

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Originally posted 08:50 AM ET  08.07 by BrownsBucksBlueJackets

there is very simple thing to do - extend the current agreement one year, as is, while Rat Furr and Buttramm haggle over the dimes and nickels for 2013-2014.a work stoppage will - as Miller says - alienate fans

Sounds good to me.

I don't think the status quo is a real option. The PA is going to have to agree to adjust the players share of revenue downward.................they are currently higher than MLB. the NFL and the NBA, all of which draw a lot more fans and revenue. In addition some franchises (Phoenix is the poster child) teeter on the edge and need to be moved at last. No expansion and some intelligent relocation, fast. If these things don't happen this time some franchises will be lost IMO in a work stoppage and it will take many, many years for the league to recover. Fehr's job of protecting player jobs will have failed in his first try.

In spite of the fact that all of us love hockey, you can't feed all the mouths at the table with 5 loaves and two fishes. Or was it 4 hamburger buns and 3 pucks? I can never remember. Hockey, with some major exceptions of course, is in better shape than it's ever been in the US (there has never been a question in Canada). But it's still more regionally strong than it is nationwide. Getting better but more work to do. A stoppage is guaranteed IMO to set things back a decade or more.

Because everybody remembers the dudes who win silver. They are definitely stars.

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Originally posted 08:53 AM ET  08.07 by Spiny Norman

saw this yesterday....I think it's nonsenseI think....they may work through under the current CBA. Admittedly, I have a fan's optimism, but i think Fehr realises where he is here, and that the NHLPA doesn't carry the weight of MLBPA, etc.

I think the players have more leverage now than they have since 94. The players want their fair share, and I fully believe they're entitled to it, even if it means guys like Shane Doan wind up with $7 mil per. Revenues go up, salaries go up. The players sign contracts offered by owners. How come a couple years later they should be made to feel that they aren't worth that contract, that, quoting my favourite hockey exec, "was made in good faith"?

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Originally posted 09:22 AM ET  08.07 by Slapshot

I don't think the status quo is a real option. The PA is going to have to agree to adjust the players share of revenue downward.................they are currently higher than MLB. the NFL and the NBA, all of which draw a lot more fans and revenue. In addition some franchises (Phoenix is the poster child) teeter on the edge and need to be moved at last. No expansion and some intelligent relocation, fast. If these things don't happen this time some franchises will be lost IMO in a work stoppage and it will take many, many years for the league to recover. Fehr's job of protecting player jobs will have failed in his first try.In spite of the fact that all of us love hockey, you can't feed all the mouths at the table with 5 loaves and two fishes. Or was it 4 hamburger buns and 3 pucks? I can never remember. Hockey, with some major exceptions of course, is in better shape than it's ever been in the US (there has never been a question in Canada). But it's still more regionally strong than it is nationwide. Getting better but more work to do. A stoppage is guaranteed IMO to set things back a decade or more.

Couldn't agree more Slappy though I don't think a work stoppage would be quite as devastating as you and several others here do. A few years of alienation, but I doubt a decade.

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Originally posted 09:05 AM ET  08.07 by Swamp Dragon

Yes and the last thing the owners want to do is give them a few paychecks before they walk out they will lock them out unless there is a deal in place even if it' to cobntinue with the status quo

Swamp I have to admit; may favorite part of being on this board is your avatar*.

* It used to be your collection but that has been deleted.

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Originally posted 09:35 AM ET  08.07 by dannylimes

The players want their fair share, and I fully believe they're entitled to it,

Thank you Comrade Danny.

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Originally posted 10:15 AM ET  08.07 by Rex Racer

Couldn't agree more Slappy though I don't think a work stoppage would be quite as devastating as you and several others here do. A few years of alienation, but I doubt a decade.

its the last tolerable sport left besides football

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Originally posted 10:18 AM ET  08.07 by NY Rangers

its the last tolerable sport left besides football

and I am finding football less and less enjoyable as the years go by. And my team has won a coule, in that period
I just hate the chest thumping NOT IN MY HOUSE morons

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Originally posted 10:16 AM ET  08.07 by Rex Racer

Thank you Comrade Danny.

Da.

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Originally posted 10:27 AM ET  08.07 by Spiny Norman

and I am finding football less and less enjoyable as the years go by. And my team has won a coule, in that periodI just hate the chest thumping NOT IN MY HOUSE morons

LOL. You and I agree on that Spiny. I don't know about you but the old truism "too late smart, and too soon old" sure applies to me. :-)

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Originally posted 10:29 AM ET  08.07 by Slapshot

LOL. You and I agree on that Spiny. I don't know about you but the old truism "too late smart, and too soon old" sure applies to me. :-)

they're all idiots.
A bunch of knuckle draggers with far too much money on their hands, and they have no idea how to act in polite society

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Originally posted 10:27 AM ET  08.07 by dannylimes

Da.

What are you trying to tell us with the booties Danny?

1) Burkie's wearing Depends?
2) The Leafs are starting Kadri?
3) Mrs. Limes is having a boy?