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NHL
and NHLPA squabbles and I am nearly broke - sheesh
For the past half hour I have been reading
through the twists and turns of the National Hockey League(NHL) and the
National Hockey League Player’s Association (NHLPA). And I have been trying to understand what is
at stake for each party.
What I am sure of is the fact that they are
not agreeing to what the other party is offering. The issues also change with each offer and
counter offer – and still no one agrees with the other even though they have changed
their stance.
From what I have read the average salary of
an NHL hockey player is $2.4 Million.
Well if I am right or wrong with that number I could care less – really.
It is all that I could find – quote from The Star – “The difference in those two potential formats alone would cost the
average player $120,000, based on an average yearly salary of $2.4 million and
the gap between their projected pro-rated salaries. The combined loss of 60
extra events in buildings around the league would be even more for owners.”
(http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/nhl/article/1310147--nhl-lockout-players-set-for-second-vote-on-dissolving-union-source-says
)
So on one side is a very
elite group of young and sometimes a little older men at 30+ that are
Millionaires. On the other side there
are the owners of the teams that these Millionaires play on. And these teams are owned by Mega
Millionaires or maybe better said Billionaires that want even more from their
investments in these Millionaire Players.
And if I understand it
correctly from the reporters that have tried to clear up what is happening…
there will only be 48 games in the NHL mini season if they go back to work
playing hockey by January 11, 2013… which is 7 days from now.
To top it off the NHLPA is
about to wipe out their own union and all that it means. And if that happens the individual players
will begin a long and serious run of lawsuits against the Billionaire Owners
for failing to hold their part of the bargain/agreement when the super star
hockey player signed up with the billionaire.
Lawyers will be smiling from
lawsuit to lawsuit getting an average of 50% of what each lawsuit is settled
for…
But who needs to play hockey
if you can settle court case that will give you $20 - $40 Million now – even if
you have to give the lawyer some of it!!!?
Now as of yesterday’s reports,
the NHL (the Billionaire group/employers) are going to court – or have gone to
court to prevent the NHLPA from disbanding the Union – for simple fear that the
Lawsuits that will be coming their way will be so huge that they could be broke
and out of business if this happens.
In what other business do
you find the Employer demanding that the Union not be allowed to be pulled
apart or disbanded?
This is the strangest thing
that could possibly happen.
The arguments are over $60 Million
here - $75 Million there – a billion there a gazillion here.
But whose money is it
anyway?
It is hard earned money that
the local fan has made at his shaky job in the shaky economy of the USA and
Canada. It is speculated money that will
possibly be spent on a game that isn’t happening. It is real money that may not be in the
pockets of real people – that may never return to another hockey game ever.
I am writing this on January
4, 2013. It is not prophetic in
anyway. It is simply that I no longer
care about hockey or the NHL. In fact from the start of this disagreement
between two very rich people I didn’t like the NHL – or the people that run
it. It is a TOTAL TURN OFF.
For 111 days now I have not
had to change the channel on my TV to avoid the NHL games. I have felt sorry for some of the young
people that have placed so much hope and effort into their future of playing
hockey – to the avoidance of a University Education and a better opportunity of
employment outside of the hockey world.
Do I hate hockey? Nope – not
at all. My grandsons play hockey and I go
whenever I can to watch the most amazing young men in the world fly across the
ice. These young fellows are real good…
and I love what they do.
But the difference is THEY
PAY to Play… they are not PAID TO PLAY.
I think that the NHL has
lost the fan base in this economy and in this world of entertainment mass
market. There is way more to do and see
beside NHL.
I predict that the NHL is
dying… or maybe even dead as I write these words.
Ooops I am prophesying!
I am a retired Minister. My
annual income is just around $30,000 from what I remember from last year’s
income tax statements.
My pension is frozen and for
the third year I have not been given so much as ONE CENT raise by the Pension
Fund people at our church’s head office. There is no money being made now, no
investments of that Pension Money is producing anything at all.
The letter that I received from
the head office of our church used words like “solvency” and I think that is closely
related to “insolvency” which is closely related to “bankruptcy” talk.
It could come to a time when
I will have two real choices DEATH or Live on the Streets. Food Banks could be my next source of food
stuff.
And the NHL and NHLPA can’t
get their act together. And somehow I
just don’t care – at all!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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