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A quick calculation, to put a potential salary cap in perspective:
Jaromir Jagr of the NY Rangers makes $11,000,000 per year. Based on him playing 77 games last year, at an average of 20 minutes per game...
That comes out to $47,619.05 PER MINUTE!!
I made MAYBE half that all of LAST YEAR...
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half of that is big money Mr. Manager! :lol: :lol:
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$47,619.05 i'd play for that a season in the NHL
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really chancellor? what team do you play for?
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Jagr's a hot dog, and the Rangers are fools, a match made in heaven...
get off the players' nuts because not a single one of you would pass up the oppertunity to make that much money, you need to get over the fact that many of them are very very very, filthy rich, and that you are not. booohooo, life isn't fair, but at least they've provided you with years of priceless hockey, and precious memories. it's the owners that are depriving you of hockey this year by locking the players out. with that being said, give it up already, and go bitch about movie stars or gangsta rappers :roll:...
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My apologies, Mr Canuck. I didn't mean for my post to sound bitchy, I was just bored and did a quick calculation that I found fascinating and wanted to share with everyone. I agree with you in that it is the owners who pay the players, and offer huge contracts. The players just took what was offered them, and I certainly won't blame them for it. While I am on the players' side in terms of salary, I wish BOTH parties would get out of their cubby-hole offices, and get back to the bargaining table. Replacement players aren't too far away...
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Sorry Darkest but you are not seeing the big picture, neither are the players. There are problems with the league, the owners see it, the fans see it, it is the players that are not seeing it. If they did they would accept a salary cap and get on with playing. Thye had there chance to make money in the last ten years, now it is time to pull back the reigns a bit. 75% of revenues to salaries is insane no business can run like that.
How are they going to make a profit?... cutting salaries that are out of whack with revenues. This isn't the NFL ( 8 billion in TV revenue) this is the NHL 6 million in tv revenue.
Sorry buddy, it is the players fault now.
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It's not the players' fault that salaries are the way they are, but it is the players' fault that they won't recognize that the gravy train is over and that most owners are no longer willing to support the idiocy of owners who think that paying Bobby Holik and Bill Guerin $9 million is a good idea.
I'll tell you what the players are very guilty of - selfishness. Funny how one of the concessions they are offering is a cap on rookie salaries (easy to cap someone else's money, right guys?) and guys like Chelios and others have said that even if it means 10 teams fold, they won't accept a cap. If ten teams fold, that's 250+ players who lose their NHL jobs, not to mention the number of arena workers, etc who would lose their jobs. But guys like Chelios don't care - as long as they get theirs then all is well.
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if the league lost ten teams it would be ten times better, only the best of the best would have jobs, and as a result the AHL would be better too.
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I agree some contraction is a good thing - three teams in the east and at least one in the west - but if it occurs as a result of player greediness preventing hockey from surviving, rather than allowing market forces to dictate survival and demise, it's a bad thing. These are the people who bring the game to us.
I think everybody would be against the Hip if they decided they wanted to double or triple their income every five years and as a result concert tickets skyrocketed from $40 and $50 to $150...that's what the best seats at hockey games cost, sometimes more. Even though we admire the band, we would draw a line when their financial demands began taking away from their artistic credibility. Likewise, it's hard for me to even respect the best players in the league as people who love the game and have worked so hard to make it, when they are making such unreasonable salary demands.
The NHLPA is a funnel cloud of egos swirling round, wreaking havoc in its path.
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One agent had this to say in an espn.com article:
"If we don't play this season we've pissed away $1.2 billion. Help me explain that to my clients," he said. "Bob and Gary have both painted themselves into a corner making promises they can't keep and there's no way out.
"There's lots of money to go around. These guys can buy Hummers with $1.3 million."
