Comments on: Fehr calls cancelled bargaining session “one of the normal things that happen”

By: phillyphanatic76

phillyphanatic76 — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:49:08 +0000

Both sides continually preach about how they want to hammer out a resolution before an inevitable lockout commences. Then why are you not meeting all day, every day to work out issues that they’ve made NO progress on so far? Why did they wait until a month and a half before the CBA expires to actually sit down with eachother?? It’s all so ridiculous. They’re basically saying: “We’re doing EVERYTHING we can by waiting until the 11th hour, ignoring the issues, and refusing to compromise on anything because we truly care about the fans (and by that we mean we know that you’ll come crawling back no matter what we do, just like before).” The owners continually cry poor while they hand out outrageous contracts and constantly raise ticket/concession/merchandise prices. Bettman agrees with the owners that players are ridiculously over-compensated while he pays himself $8mil a year. More than almost every superstar in the game. What justification is there to pay yourself more than the players that create the product? What has Bettman done to help the game? He’s a weasel but I sincerely hope these sides can find some middle ground so I don’t have to experience another year without hockey.

By: davebabychreturns

davebabychreturns — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:40:14 +0000

Hey, same as Bettman.

Except Fehr has played a part in one labour stoppage in 28 years, while Bettman has his hands in two in the last 19.

By: onbucky96

onbucky96 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:26:44 +0000

Donald Fehr, shutting down professional sports since 1994.

By: pheagles

pheagles — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:25:40 +0000

Unfortunately it appears that the owners don’t mind being the bad guys in this process. Not only that, they want to be the bad guys. The only time that I have seen where the attendance and popularity has hit a sport hard is when the players strike. Even when hockey was lost for a whole season, the fans came back rather quickly . But when the players are the ones stopping the games, the sport is harmed for many years. It is an unfortunate double standard that can only help the owners get what they want, and they can better control their losses knowing that their actions don’t have a major effect on the fans. It is as if the fans side with the players during a lockout and are just glad when they can play again.

By: murtdurt

murtdurt — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:24:20 +0000

Neither are happening. As a true fan of the game I’ve realized the NHL is a ship called titanic and it’s headed right for the iceberg called lockout…..how bad was that analogy?? Enjoy these comments and the many more to more come with future cba meetings like this. The only people who lose are the fans

By: 1943mrmojorisin1971

1943mrmojorisin1971 — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:01:46 +0000

As well as Fehr comes off here, I’d prefer not to see or hear from him until after the puck is dropped in October….same goes for Bettman, although preferably he would disappear for a lot longer.