From a players perspective, every couple weeks that go by is another paycheque lost. But the way the owners would have to look at it is that as long as they get 60+ games in, they’re getting their full TV deal, their full advertising deals, and 75% of their ticket revenues. Once they pass that 60 game threshold, they lose a very substantial chunk of revenue. Although I don’t know what the lost percentage is once they fall under 60 games, I would imagine it has to be >75% of the original value, if not even lower.

I wish some people with access to this type of information would bring it up much sooner than when we’re at the 60 game threshold. Would’ve given many of us a date to mark on our calendars and saved us the roller coaster ride of emotions that we have been on since the beginning of the lockout…although I guess emotions sell newspapers and draw listeners and viewers in

& fwiw, I absolutely hate Jacobs, it’s unfortunate he can’t take a lesson from his NFL counterpart down in Foxboro.

Playoffs are still the playoffs.

The latest now is that the NHL will break from tradition by starting on Christmas Day and that tickets for these games are to be “heavily” discounted by as much as 75% ! … look for “the announcement” to be made sometime during the next 24-36 hours …

joey and dumbfeld are out on a lunch date , trying to conger up there next false rumor to post

Well, Ryan, your other options are to either stay the course and continue to let Philly, NYR, and a handful of other teams drive up the value of players as they’re able as the cap allows, or we can go further and return to pre-2004 dynasties based purely on who spends the most money. Oh yeah, takes a lot of skill to build a winner when you’ve got a blank check to work with (unless you’re Buffalo). I’d argue that it takes even more skill to build a successful team when you can’t wrap up a star player for 10+ years. IMO 5 years is too short, but I do think there needs to be a term limits.