[Centurion2000]

The owners should FIRE all the players and just announce they are re hiring the next crop of players. 500K is MORE than enough.

[Strategerist]

500K is MORE than enough.

Funny how pro sports labor disputes turns conservatives into Communists.

[Alberta's Child]

If you think the NHL is dull now (with all the dilution of talent), just wait until they play a few months next year with AHL-level players.

I would normally side with the owners in disputes like this, but the NHL owners deserve no consideration whatsoever here. Every decision the league has made in the last ten years has been a disaster -- from over-expansion to relocation to the Sun Belt to that stupid red flaming puck on television.

I knew the NHL was doomed the day Gary Bettman was hired.