Comments on: Will next week make or break the 2012-13 season? http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/ ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.com Sat, 25 May 2013 04:43:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: manchestermiracle http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107483 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:31:22 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107483 I don’t believe there is a “make or break” point for the NHL. It appears they have already pissed away five years of growth by alienating all but hardcore coming-back-to-give-you-more-of-my-money-as-soon-as-you-decide-to-play fans. This is more of a slow-motion train wreck with each car in the consist slowing going over the side of a bridge. Each lost day sees another car in the drink.

And now they are risking an entire season by squabbling over how to divvy up their fat pie. I have no hard evidence other than anecdotal stories both on here and in real life, but I’d say there are likely many thousands of people who’ve turned away from the NHL and are spending their entertainment money in other places. Whether they return their attention to the NHL remains to be seen.

In conversations this past week with two friends in L.A., I asked about their previous plans to buy Kings season tickets. Both have now committed those funds to other, non-hockey, expenses. Neither has decided whether or not they are going to buy individual game tickets if/when the season starts, but neither one is making any changes to their schedules to accommodate any games.

]]> By: themajorleagueblog http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107434 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:55:26 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107434 Usually I ignore Pierre’s “insight”, but this time he has a point. This week will make or break the season, because there may not be a Winter Classic and why would the owners care about the season without the Winter Classic

]]> By: ron05342 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107430 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:58:33 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107430 You are one of the many that are hurt by all of this, and I am sure it is so comforting for you to hear from the players and league representatives that they are so concerned about you and your job.

As I have said before, if they were indeed so concerned about people like you, then why not meet continuously without breaks in order to get a deal done? Both the players and the league are talking out of their ass.

Because to be perfectly honest, they couldn’t care less about you. That is very obvious by their lack of action.

]]> By: antkowiak666 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107409 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:13:49 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107409 of course i’m bs….i’m a sucker just like all of you.

]]> By: blomfeld http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107390 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:30:21 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107390 Nothing will happen this week. The earliest that we could potentially hear of a breakthrough is during the week following, though more likely the week after that …

]]> By: capesouth http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107381 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:30:29 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107381 ditto

]]> By: id4joey http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107374 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:14:20 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107374 The season is not in jeopardy yet. I believe the milestone that will make or break the season is the Winter Classic. There is a lot of money to be made with this game, so canceling it will result in a major loss of revenue. In other words, they will try to save it. If it goes, then might as well can the whole season.

]]> By: kotteintheslot http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107363 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:05:33 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107363 i call bs….

]]> By: trick9 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107356 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:39:36 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107356 No.

Crucial week will be that one where they will need to decide to cancel the Winter Classic. And that week will come somewhere in November, if they cancel it then there will not be a season.

]]> By: atwatercrushesokoye http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107340 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:16:08 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107340 Yep, nothing new here, he’s one of the dozen’s of “insiders” employed by TSN and Sportsnet trying to justify their jobs, so they get on the phone to their “sources” and tell us absolutely nothing of substance. Next he’ll break a story about one of his sources tell him that one of the two sides is disappointed with the way the other side is bargaining.

]]> By: Brian http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107337 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:56:12 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107337 You guys do realize that Pierre Lebrun has said “this week is crucial for negotiations” every week for the last month+, right? He’s not exactly offering special insight here.

]]> By: rebekah319 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107335 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:39:05 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107335 As a worker at an area I just want my job back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: bleed4philly http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107334 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:28:37 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107334 Break

]]> By: antkowiak666 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107330 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:12:28 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107330 if they don’t have a deal by Oct. 25,i’m done with the NHL.so long suckers!

]]> By: capesouth http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/21/will-next-week-make-or-break-the-2012-13-season/comment-page-1/#comment-107329 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:57:51 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=871463#comment-107329 The 82 game-season will be in doubt but not the entire season. Obviously, things can happen pretty quickly because they want to start the season two weeks from now, yet nothing has been agreed upon to this point. It’s just proof that things can take shape really fast once a deal is reached. Whose to say a deal isn’t reached on Dec.1, for example? They would be playing games by the middle of the month, the winter classic would be on, etc. The entire season isn’t in jeopardy until at least December.

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