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Originally Posted by Triumph36
while i'm not really on the owners' side here (if you want to reduce players' % of HRR, go ahead, there's not a 'right side' in collective bargaining), i do think the league should be considering revenue sharing more significantly - the system they have now is set up so that the torontos and new yorks make an incredible amount of money regardless of what happens on the ice, and so that the phoenixs and floridas have no chance of making a profit. either introduce a luxury tax or get a better revenue sharing system.
The owners need to push for a delayed % drop. If you allow the players to have the salary cap be at $70m for next year. Then you slowly have the % drop every year until the desired 50% or whatever they agree on.
That way, both sides win, players get to keep their current increase and theoretically it can keep going up or staying relatively the same for the next 5 years until they get down to 50% or whatever.
At which point, once it levels at 50%, players will start getting raises again as revenues rise.
Expecting the players to take a huge rollback again is lol and unrealistic.