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Originally Posted by lozen
I just do not understand how NHL players deserve NFL and NBA type contracts.
what do you mean by NFL/NBA type contracts?
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You have no TV revenue and are gate Driven. Players are greedy in my opinion.
well, they have some TV revenue, it's not like they're at their low point there
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This type of contract should protect us from the idiot owners. Heck Even the Minnesota GM turned into an idiot owner with those two last signings
lol @ protecting owners from themselves
i mean, who cares when they've agreed to split the pie? 57/43, 55/45, 52/48, 50/50, whatever. after that who cares who gets paid what? Suter & Parise were worth those contracts bc that's their value on the open market. very few good players make it to market, now we want to completely remove their ability to get paid when they get there? and why, so some plug can make $1m/year more?
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
Is 2 year ELC instead of 3 supposed to be a compromise for UFA at 28/8 seasons? What are the current UFA rules?
Letting a team basically own a guy until he's 28 (unless someone thinks he's worth filing an offer sheet over like we see approx every other year) seems pretty ridiculous.
or 26 if he starts at 18. isn't the current system 27/7?
anyway i think the ELC/arbitration rights/UFA stuff is some kind of attempt to re-establish the 2nd contract as something that's pro-owner, whereas under the current system guys have been getting paid like they're UFA's basically.
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Originally Posted by Geddy Lee
Lemme just throw this out there right now, since Seattle's got the new arena coming: if the league expands into Seattle and, for argument's sake, Quebec City, instead of relocating hemorrhaging franchises to those markets instead, it'll rank right up there with the stupidest things the league has ever done.
EXPANSION FEEZZZZZ tho
i mean presumably the owners winning ~7% of the money here is going to make it easier for these crap markets to make a go of it (if some kind of increased revenue sharing system isn't part of this deal, then lol @ the owners). maybe they'll move 1-2 eventually, and expand to 32. GTA, Quebec City, Seattle, Kansas City, Vegas, Portland...might have a few options as far as markets go, idk...