02-16-2005, 05:42 PM
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Pixies Den Mother
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: No-Hockey Land, dammit!!
Posts: 11,897
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Originally Posted by jseal
"I have no choice but to cancel the 2004-05 season - this is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided."
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What a lying sack of s**t Gary Bettman is!! Or should that be "Buttman"?
He finally gets the players to give in on the salary cap and it's still not good enough. He wanted this situation, hoping that fans would blame the players, so that the NHL can break the NHL Players Association. This is just old fashioned union busting.
ALL sports players are paid way more than they should be. This is not unique to hockey. Hockey doesn't have the huge fan base of football or baseball to begin with, and now to cancel an entire season and alienate what fans they do have is just plain STUPIDITY!!!!
I know I'm ranting, but I can't help it. This just makes me so angry......because it's so unnecessary. Haven't they heard of playing or working under the old contract while negotiating a new one? There was no need to lock the players out and then make it impossible to reach an agreement so that there's not enough time to play even a partial season. |