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kermit__35 wrote:But is it in the leagues best interest to provide them with a free market, if the teams themselves are struggling to survive. Toronto and Detroit are isolated scenarios, look at teams such as Nashville, Florida and Washington.

So much for the NHL looking towards the CM haha.

hockey shouldnt even be in places like Florida, Nashville, Columbus, Atlanta, Phoenix, Anaheim

and the huge salaries all started when they Oilers Sold Gretzky for a huge pile of cash to L.A.

I don't think that's where it started. Look at European football (soccer), and how they buy players instead of trade and yet their best players only make 5 million a year. I think what started it was the implementation of unrestricted free agency, and the bidding wars that occured directly after that, inflating payrolls.

I remember that day. That was the day I stopped watching hockey.

Just to inform anyone who cares..

The two sides have been talking now for almost 8 hours, and it is believed that talks will continue for most of the night,

One way or another, this is over tonight.

not the bargaining committee specifically
i think he's the rangers player rep
a post he ( think) held when he was with the devils as well

If those whores dont come to an agreement, i'll become an american football fan and never watch hockey again.

i am obviously very much outposted given i started typing that many hours ago and forgot about it when someone came to talk to me bout something and i ended up watching tv
anyways

UFA is necessary
its a part of the game and i have no problem with it
UFA can be good for the game in fact
but the whole "not having a level playing field" thing is where i have a problem

Thats right, i said WHORES.

save a whore.
ride a cowboy

Gimme_Shelter wrote:

kermit__35 wrote:But is it in the leagues best interest to provide them with a free market, if the teams themselves are struggling to survive. Toronto and Detroit are isolated scenarios, look at teams such as Nashville, Florida and Washington.

So much for the NHL looking towards the CM haha.

hockey shouldnt even be in places like Florida, Nashville, Columbus, Atlanta, Phoenix, Anaheim

Columbus is about as far South as Colorado... so you needed to add Colorado into that list or like take Columbus off... even though Columbus is a retarded team with no fans... it's still justifiably as acceptable as The Avalanche!

The two sides will meet again tomorrow. Thursday's meeting was finished at 11 PM.... that's 20 hours of negotiations. That, as well as the fact that there will be futher meetings, cannot be taken as anything but positive.

Lando wrote:

Gimme_Shelter wrote:

kermit__35 wrote:But is it in the leagues best interest to provide them with a free market, if the teams themselves are struggling to survive. Toronto and Detroit are isolated scenarios, look at teams such as Nashville, Florida and Washington.

So much for the NHL looking towards the CM haha.

hockey shouldnt even be in places like Florida, Nashville, Columbus, Atlanta, Phoenix, Anaheim

Columbus is about as far South as Colorado... so you needed to add Colorado into that list or like take Columbus off... even though Columbus is a retarded team with no fans... it's still justifiably as acceptable as The Avalanche!

the Avalanche actually have a good fan base tho, Columbus is just full of douche bags it would seem

would a winning team make a difference you think?
i honestly don't think that even if Nashville have a successful team, tehy won't have fan support comparable to toronto, detroit or even minnesota to an extent.

the wild have one of the best fan bases in the league heh

they sell out the xcel centre a lot
i think all the time if my memory serves me correctly
whats really sad is new jersey, where they have a really good team with legitimate players and such and yet still dont sell out

Dr. Hobo wrote:the wild have one of the best fan bases in the league heh

they sell out the xcel centre a lot
i think all the time if my memory serves me correctly
whats really sad is new jersey, where they have a really good team with legitimate players and such and yet still dont sell out

Yeah but that's the same as comparing any hockey state or province to a non-hockey state or province...

Well, except for maybe the huge fan support in Manitoba! Go Jets!

given nj's location and what not it should be a hockey state
but
having said that
given the proximity to the islanders, rangers, pens and finally the flyers its sorta not entirely surprising that the team doesnt do better given the # of teams

Not to mention it's New Jersey... I can't think of one good thing that's come out of New Jersey!

Lando wrote:Not to mention it's New Jersey... I can't think of one good thing that's come out of New Jersey!

soprano's?

Kevin Smith?