NHLPA negotiations was not about greed!

[Dr. J.]

That's why your at the bottom of the pile. Thats also why I wouldn't hire you. You cry foul too much. Not a team player.

[one night]

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. The player cost is cost of goods sold. The players are the product we watch. COGS in most businesses far exceed 50%. Overheads (including wages and salaries of the real employees - security, concession staff, retail staff, customer service) can eat up 5-20%. And then there is a profit in the end, even for the bottom feeding teams in "bad" US markets. Accounting hocus pocus can turn profits into losses, especially in the short term...but at the end of the day as long as a team has a value then forecasted cash-in exceeds forecasted cash-out. All NHL teams have a value.

The lockout was 100% pure greed by Bettman and the collective group of owners. There was no need for the 43% ++++++++++ initial lowball offer. The players had to sacrifice over 1/3 of a season in their short careers in order to settle half way, at 50%.

And you thought Bettman was getting boo's before from fans...

[Noheart]

I only cared during the lockout.

[elvis15]

My Mother always told me if I don't have something nice to say, I shouldn't say anything at all.

EDIT: In Before Elvis 15 says this is in the wrong spot.

[Common sense]

That's why your at the bottom of the pile. Thats also why I wouldn't hire you. You cry foul too much. Not a team player.

[Tragoedia]

Why, you think that other people's productivity comes at your expense? You think that their talent was somehow taken from you and people like you? So you think that because they are more talented thatn you and worked harder at it all the way through childhood and beyond, and because, against all odds, they made it - that somehow it comes at your expense? You believe the non-productive subsidize the productive? Well, I guess if you are willing to throw out all reason, common sense and logic, that you are free to believe that. Of course you are not free to make it true.

[Eagle Eye]

How can you know that? Perhaps he is a teacher, or a fire fighter, or a soldier, or a farmer, or an emergency room nurse -- and does an excellent job. All of these professions are paid a tiny fraction of what a marginal NHLer makes. Does that really reflect the relative values of the two professions?