NHL would need to buy them from current ownership and pay city/arena's a ton of $$$ to break leases
We would be looking at likely around 1B in costs for NHL to fold 5/6 teams
And when the Cnd dollar slips someday (Probably not soon though) back into abyss ,, Will you support removal of all the Cnd teams that Bettman/NHL saved once before?
Why would the US dollar gain against the Canadian dollar when the US is in as bad a financial condition as Greece?
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Why would the US dollar gain against the Canadian dollar when the US is in as bad a financial condition as Greece?
I am not talking soon ,, But it isn't unreasonable to expect your economy to suffer down line and for US to recover at some point
And my point is that NHL trying to make it work in these markets financially is no different then NHL bailing out Ott/Edm/Cal in late 90's ,, A fact many people up North in there hate for Bettman/NHL seem to forget
And I mainly get annoyed with constant bashing of Car and Nashville
Both fanbases have been grown from ground up and made progress ,, I think both are good longterm markets for NHL thus why we need more patiance
I can say Nashville of today is vastly different of Nashville 10 years ago ,, The growth of hockey in the Tennessee area as a whole has been nice to see
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i want to be optimistic, it's nice that after a PA offer, the owners aren't sitting on it and are going right back with their own counter but this entire lockout has been spun so many potential positive ways.
A deal will not be struck until the latest possible time to kick off the season. It's just blatantly obvious now. So may as well just wait for that day and not read much of what's going on.
]A deal will not be struck until the latest possible time to kick off the season. [/B] It's just blatantly obvious now. So may as well just wait for that day and not read much of what's going on.
I've believed this for quite some time . While i can't stand Fehr he's not an idiot like the previous NHLPA head was . He'll squeeze as much as he can out of the owners and then settle . There's nothing to be gained from losing the season .
I think the next week or so will be all about pushing it a bit further on each side, till they get it.
They came this far they are obivously going to the 11th hour.
From now until then (about 9-10 days) both sides will blink JUST a little more. They will both give in a bit as they've come too far right now to turf another season.
Nice to see Bettman and the Owners finally prepared to negotiate as opposed to taking their puck and going home sulking after each PA proposal.
You have to wonder why they couldn't have done that months ago.
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