Comments on: Dan Boyle isn’t buying the owners being fully united

By: tmoore4075

tmoore4075 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:50:19 +0000

The clubs you listed as using their influence to get a deal done are the ones not letting a deal get done. You mention Philly and Boston and those are two biggest dogs controlling this as most reports are saying. The small markets want revenue sharing and maybe a modified version of the current deal. Problem is the big markets don’t want to help them so they just want to cut the players share instead of propping up the struggling franchises.

By: spicyjimbolaya

spicyjimbolaya — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 05:20:40 +0000

Uh Dan Boyle, guess what? The players are not showing an united front, considering they are willing to be paid less money just to play hockey. So it begs the question, why are the players not settling with the North American owners when they are perfectly willing to settle for the Europens owners?

By: thedavesiknowiknow

thedavesiknowiknow — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:40:58 +0000

Dan Boyle is dead on in saying that 100% of the owners are not on the same page. It’s probably safe to say they’re (as high) at high as a 50/50 split in this. Did he happen to mention that the players are just as divided in this as well?

By: blomfeld

blomfeld — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:23:48 +0000

BINGO !

You’ve hit the nail on the head my friend as that is “exactly” what’s going down here ! An analogy could be made to perhaps a party that you’re attending. You want to leave because the people are positively boring, so what do you do ? Do you tell the host that he/she is boring you to death ? Of course not ! Rather you pretend that you have another commitment or that you aren’t feeling well, etc. And that same applies here. The only thing I would add however is that they won’t be able to pull this caper off “every” year in going forward. Yes, the expiry of the CBA provided them with the perfect excuse needed for this year. But in going forward, they still want to move the entire schedule forward by at least a month … you’ll notice that they’ve already been doing that by a factor of 1-2 days per season. Nonetheless, the challenge for them remains to “get the hell” out of October as soon as possible !

ps: you sir, are an Agent of Insight !

GO KINGS GO eh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: blomfeld

blomfeld — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:19:24 +0000

“Who needs the NHL?” …

Um, maybe all of us ?

By: vindicatus

vindicatus — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:03:57 +0000

So is the solution to push back the start of the season two months and make hockey a summer sport? Then we don’t have to compete with baseball or basketball playoffs and we minimize the overlap with football.

Fine. Crank up the AC and let’s DO IT, but for God’s sake why can’t they just actually NEGOTIATE instead of posture? Actually, if I had a reliable KHL feed, I’d be perfectly happy watching that and attending my local AHL games. Who needs the NHL?

By: dprouse

dprouse — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:46:39 +0000

Dan Boyle is engaged in wishful thinking here. Most of the American owners would be quietly relieved at having the first month, even two, cancelled. October and November are deadly for a lot of American clubs as they compete with the NFL and college football. Toss in baseball playoffs, and October is an especially bad month for any team relying on walk up crowds. Even the Canadian clubs and the big market teams who sell well in October and November would be willing to blow away half of this season in order to get an extra 7% of HRR for the next ten years. (The best the players will do here is 50%.)

By: ron05342

ron05342 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:23:33 +0000

You know what I am tired of hearing (from both sides)?

I am tired of hearing how they feel for the workers affected by this lock-out: the ticket sellers, the ushers, the concession workers, etc.

Both sides are full of sh*t. If they were so concerned about the core workers, then they would be meeting EVERY f*k DAY in order to get a deal done.

So stop trying to bullsh*t us fans. You guys don’t give a rat’s azz about the core workers. If you did, you would try to resolve this ASAP.

By: tampabayirish

tampabayirish — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:13:42 +0000

How does Boyle know all this…speculation? You would think that the high payroll, power teams in the league (Toronto, Montreal, Rangers, Boston, Detroit, Philly, Pittsburgh, Vancouver, Washigton) would be able to use their influence and get a deal done. I find it hard to believe that Nashville, Florida, Tampa Bay, Phoenix and the other small markets clubs are holding up a deal. Bottom line. I think this could take awhile to settle. I think the owners are pretty unified. On a more pleasant note…what are you going to do with the money you saved by not buying hockey tickets? I am thinking of a nice family vacation to San Diego next summer.

By: jimw81

jimw81 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:01:27 +0000

the old policy was 10-12 owners in order to issue a lockout. the reason why we have 8 owners locking out the players is because bettman change the rules on the BOG that gaved him the power to do this.

By: paledevil

paledevil — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:43:26 +0000

Aquilini and Gaglardi have more history than most married couples

By: tmoore4075

tmoore4075 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:58:56 +0000

Umm how do I say this…duh! The big markets don’t want to give money to the small markets so they just want a cut across the board. I just think the markets that would really like the revenue sharing know it won’t happen.