Comments on: More on how the CBA talks could “pit owner vs. owner” http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/19/more-on-how-the-cba-talks-could-pit-owner-vs-owner/ ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.com Sat, 25 May 2013 22:52:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: hockeyflow33 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/19/more-on-how-the-cba-talks-could-pit-owner-vs-owner/comment-page-1/#comment-98361 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:49:19 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=839810#comment-98361 I like it but the nhlpa is never going to allow for the league to cut 40-80 positions. The owners need to make it work now.

]]> By: hockeyflow33 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/19/more-on-how-the-cba-talks-could-pit-owner-vs-owner/comment-page-1/#comment-98358 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:35:38 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=839810#comment-98358 Of corse Jacobs is leading the charge against the nhlpa.

]]> By: somekat http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/19/more-on-how-the-cba-talks-could-pit-owner-vs-owner/comment-page-1/#comment-98329 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:25:30 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=839810#comment-98329 This seem very common sense to me. The league, as a whole, is making money. However, most teams aren’t, or are making very little. The NHL’s revenue is tied to 7-8 teams. It’s not a surprise at all that the NHLPA floated an idea that those teams share that money with the teams losing money, the teams losing a lot of money said “well, I could live with that”.

Unfortunately, the thing that should be done, and would fix the league most, isn’t even being discussed. Contraction. If a team can’t support itself, the team shouldn’t exist. You could kill 2 teams (we’ll say Columbus and Pheonix), and it fixes a lot of the leagues financial problems. Expand that to 4 teams (NYI and Florida/Tampa maybe), and it does even more.

I understand the constant drum beat of revenue sharing, but that is not a clear cut answer here. This is not the NFL with a multi billion dollar TV pie to slice up. Teams like Detroit, Toronto, NYR, Boston etc should not be penalized because other teams can’t build/sell a team correctly. The “you need the bad teams to make the league work” arguement doesn’t work, because the league would run fine with 2-4 less teams.

]]> By: tealwithit http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/19/more-on-how-the-cba-talks-could-pit-owner-vs-owner/comment-page-1/#comment-98325 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 05:40:30 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=839810#comment-98325 An agent is the furthest thing from a credible source.

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