Video: Frank Seravalli on the NHL lockout
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Video: Frank Seravalli on the NHL lockout
How ugly has the NHL lockout been so far between owners and players? Will some of the players go to Europe? CineSport's Tara Petrolino and the Daily News' Frank Seravalli discuss the impact of hockey's latest labor dispute.
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I hope they sit the year out. Dont give in Gar— Jay Grace 69
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz— ColKurtz- it s gonna be a long winter— hardball
- this is absolutely awful.— AndyReidsMustache
- ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ is right.
Both sides are shooting themselves in both feet!!
Idiots!!— Pete H 
The NHL had little choice but to allow the Thrashers to move to Winnipeg when no Atlanta-area buyers emerged. So why wouldn’t they also want the Coyotes to move from a hockey wasteland in Phoenix to a hockey hotbed in Canada? It’s actually quite simple. As long as the players’ compensation is tied to an aggregate of league revenues, the wealthiest owners have no interest in seeing overall revenues go up – thus increasing their player costs – by relocating the Coyotes to Quebec or Hamilton.
The wealthy owners are the ones driving policy, and they have no interest in sharing their money. The small-market owners’ influence is far more limited, and they’re depending upon the wealthier owners – with teams in established, successful markets – to fight for a CBA that will allow them to survive.- This is Bettman's mess. Expand for the sake of expansion. Jerk — Paul1954
- NHL Lockout
Here is another angle to why the owners do not want to relocate
teams.When the Trashers were move to Winnepeg it cost
the new owners 170 millions dollars,60 millons were for a relocating fee that was paid to the league.The league is making a lot more money by giving a franchise to a new ownership/city,selling a franchise to a new market
could bring way more dollars to the league,100 to 150 millions per teams...maybe more.Quebec and Toronto north are market that will support hockey,guaranteed.
Do the math...— mean mean pride,mean mean pride. - You make an excellent point.
Selling franchises is a lucrative process for the NHL. Just as it is for Amway. And just like Amway, the NHL does not care if a team survives or not, since they already pocketed the franchise fee. The NHL does not screen the business plans of new franchisees to examine, for example, whether a hockey team will earn a profit in Honolulu, or Pascagoula.
The NHL, for reasons known only to Bettman and his cohorts, refuses to let the Phoenix Coyotes do what should have been done a long time ago, namely file for bankruptcy. They have spent a ton of money keeping that franchise alive for what? Pride?
Let the weaker teams fold, and redistribute the players to the healthy franchises. The game will only get better. And the surviving owners will make more money.— backhand - Donald Fehr, one of the villains associated with the 1994 Baseball strike and cancellation of the World Series. Now on the side of the NHL players association. So, with this hard liner in charge, don't expect a short lockout.
I miss the Canadian teams who've fallen by the wayside and would hope failing American teams like Phoenix would be moved to Canada. A reconstituted Quebec Nordiques team would be great for reigniting old rivalries like Montreal/Quebec. Cities like Miami, Atlanta, Phoenix, Nashville weren't suitable for long term viability......— DelawareRiverRat - Gee, and this was finally going to be the Sabres' Stanley Cup year.....haha!— SabresBillsfan
Five year old Leafs' fan has message for Mr. Bettman:
http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/blog/eye-on-hockey/20223808/a-message-to-gary-bettman-from-a-young-fan-youre-bad-mr-bettman- i am so glad i won't have to listen to the orange kool-aid drinking flyers clowns for a long time...work hard, work hard, muck, muck, muck...— lanzascat
- No hockey, hey Ed who cares.— mrh1955
- At least we won't have to put up with any visits to a game by the VP candidate like we did last election!— mrh1955
- At least we won't have to put up with any visits to a game by the VP candidate like we did last election!— mrh1955
- AHL! AHL! AHL!— schultz8
EVERYONE VISIT http://www.wtfnhl.com AND SIGN-UP!!— snad264- Okay, just to say it out loud once: THE LEAGUE SHOULD NOT HAVE EXPANDED. Okay, there I said it. Like Starbucks opening a g/d coffeeshop on every stinking corner until you couldn't be out of eyeshot of one of the damn things, the league went nuts in times of plenty and OVEREXPANDED. Unlike the Bux, they can't just shut down the excess. *sigh* In hindsight, everything is obvious, innit?
As long as Bettman doesn't have to worry about concussions, ruptured eyes, and broken legs as personal issues, my sympathies will not lie with him.— janiscortese - At least we don't have to fork out big dollars to watch all these millionaires get richer. I won't miss it.— eaglesman1
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