4check22
03-28-2005, 02:41 PM
This article (http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?ID=119581) is a couple days old, but it got me thinking about hockey next year. If this article is true, and there is going to be hockey next Fall, I've got to think this means scab players. For my money, I'm all for it . . . providing some conditions:
1) If scab players are going to be used, NHL ticket prices should match the play. That means AHL prices or just a tad more. No ticket should be above the $15-20 range.
2) Only players that have already been drafted can play. I don't think it would be fair to sign potential draftees (alla Crosby) because the bidding war for these players would be a detriment to the new NHL (cost certainty).
3) No picket-line crossing. Again, with the NHL's committment to Cost Certainty, what would the league accomplish by allowing players making $5,6,7 . . . or 10 million per season to come back and play? The NHL would further the public's claim that it is the biggest joke in professional sports. This of course would not include former NHL players who are playing at the AHL level like McCammond, Rheume and Hale.
Of course there would have to be meetings upon meetings to decide what players' salaries would be. My guess is that no player could sign anything more than a one-year contract with the Big Club. What a nightmare. Still, if things could be ironed out, I'd love to see them try. It worked in the NFL years ago, and it brought the NFLPA to its collective knees.
Comments?
1) If scab players are going to be used, NHL ticket prices should match the play. That means AHL prices or just a tad more. No ticket should be above the $15-20 range.
2) Only players that have already been drafted can play. I don't think it would be fair to sign potential draftees (alla Crosby) because the bidding war for these players would be a detriment to the new NHL (cost certainty).
3) No picket-line crossing. Again, with the NHL's committment to Cost Certainty, what would the league accomplish by allowing players making $5,6,7 . . . or 10 million per season to come back and play? The NHL would further the public's claim that it is the biggest joke in professional sports. This of course would not include former NHL players who are playing at the AHL level like McCammond, Rheume and Hale.
Of course there would have to be meetings upon meetings to decide what players' salaries would be. My guess is that no player could sign anything more than a one-year contract with the Big Club. What a nightmare. Still, if things could be ironed out, I'd love to see them try. It worked in the NFL years ago, and it brought the NFLPA to its collective knees.
Comments?