Don’t Look Now, But The NHL Lockout Might Be Nearing It’s End
ESPN – The NHL has offered a new labor deal to its locked-out players, proposing a 50-50 split in hockey-related revenue and a full 82-game season starting Nov. 2. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced the offer Tuesday in Toronto, where the league and the players’ union discussed core economic issues rather than continuing to focus on secondary issues. “We hope we’ve given our best shot,” Bettman told reporters. NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr said that the offer includes a deal that is “at least six years in length” and acknowledged that the union will respond to the proposal “sooner rather than later.”
I think it moved, Jerry! Holy hell am I ready for real hockey to come back. Don’t give me that “KHL on ESPN3” garbage. Don’t tell me to go watch AHL games. I’m hooked on the NHL like a Harlem man on Blue Magic, so no cut-up bullshit substitute from Nicky Barnes is going to get me the kind of hockey high I need. The NHLPA better read between the lines and accept this fucking deal right fucking now because if Gary Bettman’s above quote is any indication, this is as good as it’s going to get, boys.
If everything goes according to plan the puck could hit the ice in just about 2 weeks. And so now it’s official, hockey fans are now the battered spouses of the sports world. We bitch and complain about this lockout because we know it’s wrong and we tell ourselves that we deserve better, but when that strong-handed daddy of ours tells us he wants to work it out, we come crawling back through those arena turnstiles like the sad little pathetic puck sluts we are. We just can’t help ourselves. We love hockey. We know it didn’t mean to beat us up on purpose. It had to. It was for our own good, really. I love you, NHL. I’m sorry for making you hurt me… @Osgood_StoolNYC
they wouldn’t abuse us so much if we didn’t ask for it
this is a definite 6-to-midnight situation, hockey fan speaking
is it 5 o’clock yet?
I fell down the stairs… Really
OK – the players will accept a 50-50 split, that is where the NBA and NFL are. I just don’t get why it took so long for the owners to get here, the players were never going to accept 43% or 46%. We should have been here a month ago. I think it pisses the owners off having ESPN broadcasting KHL games to be honest. The owners hate of ESPN is greater than their need to break the players union. Part of me wanted to see the Lock Out continue so I could see Nashville choke on the guaranteed $27 million dollars that they HAD to pay Shea Weber over the next year, whether games were played or not. I think the Predators would have gone bankrupt since their local TV/Radio deal sucks so badly and they rely on their gate. The problem of having franchises in piss-poor American markets hasn’t been resolved yet. They need to get the franchises out of Phoenix, Miami, Columbus and Long Island – these teams are never going to be healthly. Move them to Canada.
did you just call me a puck slut? why dont you fucking lick my ballsack and shut up until the deal is made.
Lets not start sucking each other’s dicks just yet. There’s more issues than just te revenue sharing that need to get hammeed out. 5 year max cntract lngths, 8 year or 28 until UFA status, 4 yeas on entry level contacts, the list goes on and the players union hasnt agreed to anything yet
Don’t sign the deal unless Bettmen announces his retirement following the season.
God I fucking hope this goes through. I can’t stand to watch only fucking NBA all winter.
That botched focus group shit may have been the best possible to happen for hockey fans
Bettman can rot in hell for the rest of eternity. motherfucker always fucks everything up. Asshole
Stop teasing us and just end the fucking season.
im amazed there hasnt been any hockey hating cocksuckers posting about how no one cares about the NHL either way, they wont take this deal. but its a half decent start from that fucker bettman