Posted on 02/16/2005 8:13:54 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
Headline should be changed to "End of NHL Season May Signal End of The NHL Itself"
Nova Scotia native Sidney Crosby has been touted as the next hockey prodigy, but I think he's at least one notch below a Gretzky-Lemieux type of player.
Not exactly a "legend", but Tommy Albelin is probably done too.
There's nothing about most professional sports that even remotely resembles "free-market capitalism."
I thought I saw his obituary back in the late 1990s, and then sure enough -- he got signed by the Devils again when he was something like 63 years old. LOL!
I have a solution!
All you need is ONE goal to win. The suspense is INTENSE!
Except the part where you lose your job because of a labor dispute!
LOL. You're right about that.
coulnd't be happier..I love how they have 500000 play off games..Hope it never comes back
Unfortunately, the NHL had to take care of three bankrupt franchises over the past five seasons (Pittsburgh Penguins, Ottawa Senators and Buffalo Sabres).
Oddly enough, what made the Buffalo situation even worse was that the Sabres was then owned by John Rigas (founder of Adelphia Cable) who schemed with his son to loot both the Sabres franchise and Adelphia Cable of millions and millions of dollars, forcing the NHL to take over operation of the Sabres for a time until a new owner was found.
Thankfully, Rigas and his son are in federal jail, but tonight the NHL is on death watch because the league and the owners did not have the money and the high-powered Broadcast TV contract to survive.
Wonder how long it will be before more NHL teams, as well as the league itself, goes into bankruptcy.
Looks like Snow Sheveling will replace Hockey as Canada's National Pastime, eh!
I blame the union, because when it comes down to it, I'll always blame a union. The owners are culpable in that they agreed to pay the exorbitant salaries in the first place, but the union chose to force the lockout rather than worry about the survival of their jobs. Typical union... kill the body to save a fingernail. Good riddance, and I hope the sport never, ever returns. Maybe that will serve as a wakeup call to the players in the other, "real" major sports.
Thank the UNION.
The grapevine has it that five clubs will fold. So, you're part way there.
"Looks like Snow Sheveling will replace Hockey as Canada's National Pastime, eh!"
You forgot curling, dude. Let fly the brooms.
I just emailed someone with a porposal on a dead pool for that. My dibs for the first to take the dirt nap is Nashville. Florida, Atlanta, Phoenix and Carolina or Anaheim soon to follow.
It's going to make us mean-spirited and short-fused.
I only hope we can turn our discontent into an overthrow of the Liberals - ARRRRR!! ;^)
Stevie Y and his "aging superstar" buddies deserve what they get. They selfishly screwed future NHLers out of an opportunity by demanding salaries that the sport could not and will never be able to support.
I wouldn't shed a tear for any of the players. The majority of them came from humble beginnings. Now they have an opportunity to return to where they came from.
Hey! I got an idea..... They could grow up, get an education and a job!
Good riddance.
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