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NHLPA could sue for billions
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07:48 AM ET 12.24 | With players having voted overwhelmingly to give the NHLPA the power of dissolution, what's next? The NHLPA could file a disclaimer of interest and dissolve the union. Once dissolved, the players could file an antitrust lawsuit requesting a court to declare the lockout unlawful, while also seeking compensation for lost wages. Since antitrust law provides for something called 'treble damages', which means triple damages, the players could get billions of dollars in compensation if this ever went to trial. Here's the math -- the combined salaries of about 700 players (which is about a billion dollars) multiplied by 3. That's a lot of money -- and it's precisely that threat of antitrust litigation together with potentially catastrophic monetary damages that gains the players leverage in CBA talks.
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Lawsuits! America's newest favorite sport!
roamer
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Contest of the Day. Name the new shows on ESPN.
Canuck eh?
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I'm all for it if it ends up that the NHL has to contract a few teams.
THE BISHOP!
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Okay I'll start........How about......
TortsCenter?
Canuck eh?
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Pardon The Interruption.......Overruled!
Canuck eh?
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Excellent!!! I'd watch.
Center Ice
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Broadcast the trial live on the jumbotrons at all the empty arenas and donate the proceeds to charity. Maybe we'll set aside a few bucks to buy Bettman a soul..........and a brain!
Center Ice
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How about.....
Pardon the Incarcerated
Canuck eh?
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Or......
Around the Habeas Corpus
Canuck eh?
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Or the latest sports thug accused of sexual assualt.....
Absolute Discharge
Canuck eh?
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Or.....
Monday Night Factum
Canuck eh?
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Remember, it's Bettman you're talking about, that's Monday Night Rectum!
Center Ice
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I like that show. By the the bye, who has all those millions?
shiprock
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I might skip that one.
shiprock
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Excuse me, Billions.
shiprock
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My thinking exactly...IF the players win in court the league will have to fold some franchises....the players will lose jobs but god damn..they'll have some coin in their pockets.
bostongm
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Or .... Weekends with Pierre!
roamer
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Did you have to bring Semin into it? It's Christmas time for cripe's sake!
roamer
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It would take years for a lawsuit to make it's way through, and there wouldn't be a league while it was going on.
The NFLPA did the same thing last year.
Schad - Notorious…
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The Fehr brothers plotting strategy.
Center Ice
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