Canadian hockey bites the dust
p2pnet.net OT News:- Canada’s worst nightmare became reality yesterday.
Its National Hockey League season was cancelled.
That’s the intro to a story in Australia’s Herald Sun in Australia, and it goes on, “Grim-faced NHL commissioner Gary Bettman broke the long-feared news in New York, with tremors felt from the Toronto Stock Exchange to the Turin Olympics.”
It’s being reported in Australia, eh?
Yep. And it’s all true.
Switch on the TV and you see a heavily hyped, highly intense ad for – womens’ curling.
Oh the Horror ! Oh the shame ! (Which isn’t to say anything against curling, womens’ or otherwise, we hasten to add.)
And it’s all because millionaires on both sides of the fence can’t reach a pay deal, making the NHL the first North American professional sports league to lose an entire season over money.
Croquet, anyone?
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worst nightmare - National Hockey League season put on ice, Herald Sun, February 18, 2005
February 17th, 2005 at 3:32 pm
Yeah, I’m Canadian, and yeah, I’m pissed. Some people these days worry about this Iraqi Insurgency spawning new, smarter terrorists…well, just try taking hockey away from me, and you’ll get one crazy bastard who’ll do anything to get the game back.
February 17th, 2005 at 3:50 pm
This is what happens when you let lawyers conduct negotiations. Everyone loses except – yep, you guessed it!
February 17th, 2005 at 5:14 pm
The NHLPA offered them a 24% rollback in salaries effective immediately and they also agreed to a hard cap at $49 million. If Bettman hadn’t made the mistake to expand to markets which don’t have an adequate NHL fanbase, that would have been a great deal for almost all of the teams.
Drake
February 17th, 2005 at 7:52 pm
I am Canadian and I care about hockey up to the sum of zero.
Even if I did, I would be _playing_ it, not watching it!
Is there anything so passive, pointless and unrewarding than _watching_ sports?
Where’s the plot, the meanings, the though provocation, the anything?
Even if you can find redeeming qualities about Hockey, why don’t you go watch local matches?
Or you can watch tapes of previous seasons… not much difference!
If you’re all after the betting and stuff you can always use something else.
Why the need for greedy overpaid sportsmen and their equally greedy and overpaid masters?
February 18th, 2005 at 8:53 am
why everybody is bitching bettman. what’s about goodenow?
the players really earned too much and they didn’t get their gready throats full. and they obviously don’t give a shit about the fan base. at least thoose who went to europe.
i can barely wait till the world championschips where eventually we will see the best national teams ever. so don’t cry, maybe canada will win again.
February 19th, 2005 at 10:17 pm
Last time I checked, the NHL wasn’t only in Canada.
I am really frustrated about this, since hockey is my favorite sport (and there in Saint Louis, I get to choose from baseball, football and hockey). However, this may be a good thing for next season (if there is one). Maybe the greedy SOB’s will be a little more humble after they go a whole season making no money.
Hell, maybe we’ll see some new stars out of this that are willing to play for the spirit of the game, instead of the paycheck. It’d really be nice not to have to bend over in the concession lines everytime you want a beer (about 8 bucks) so if these players get paid less, they can drop the highway robbery prices for anything you want to purchase while at the game.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
“This is what happens when you let lawyers conduct negotiations. Everyone loses except – yep, you guessed it!”
Its thesame in almost everything these days from politics to fast food!
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