Is Gary Bettman the stupidest man alive?

[SVTVenom]

I'd have to say he is after he rejected the player's latest offer of a 24% salary rollback across the board for all players. I guess he is content with having the season locked out and pissing off hockey fans across the world. When will he understand that this is not the NBA and you can't strong arm people like this.

<-------- Pissed off hockey fan

[Hollywood]

I'd have to say he is after he rejected the player's latest offer of a 24% salary rollback across the board for all players. I guess he is content with having the season locked out and pissing off hockey fans across the world. When will he understand that this is not the NBA and you can't strong arm people like this.

<-------- Pissed off hockey fan

He's running Hockey into the ground. What small fan base we have, we are slowly losing. :mad:

[MoonDog]

I was looking forward to seeing some Stars action this year too. Money hungry bastards! :mad:

[SVTVenom]

I have a theory: All of the fighting at recent sporting events (Pistons/Pacers game, S. Carolina/Clemson game, etc.) is due to a lack of hockey and people going through withdrawl symptoms.

Gary Bettman is guilty as charged.

Put hockey back in play and you don't have to worry about all these nuts fighting in the stands. They can go to one hockey game and get it all out right there.

[dallasstars281]

i really am missing hockey this year. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[HookEm]

Brahamas are always fun...LOTS o fighting!

[98DSM]

IMO, both are at fault here and they both need to compromise. It's the owners fault for paying these ridiculous salaries when the revenue doesn't even compre to the other 3 major sports. I heard that salaries are attributed to 75% of the total revenue. However, the bottom line is winning and if one team doesn't shell out the $$$, another team will. It's a viscious cycle. I don't understand why the players though won't give into a salary cap. Offering to reduce their salary was a starting point, but as the owners said, this solves nothing in the long run. Bill Clement said it best...if they lock out the season, regardless of who wins the war, there might not be much left to come back to.....this isn't baseball and its not are national pastime.

[RyanB]

The players want an open market system. The owners want a salary cap system in place so that someone else is keeping tabs on them, as OWNERS HAVE NO SELF RESTRAINT. Probelm is, some teams (Stars, Leafs, Red Wings, NYRangers, Chicago) will make money with a 55 million dollar payroll. Other teams ( Ottawa Buffalo Pittsburgh) will lose money with a 30 million dollar payroll. So there is going to have to be revenue sharing for all 30 teams to profit. That is my next problem, at least 5 too many teams. We can phase out Buffalo and Florida as a start as there are very few big names there that all the teams would fight for. Then if the NHL works with 28, LEAVE IT ALONE. Don't add more teams, 2 less teams is 2 better players to choose from for each 23 man roster. I could talk for days upon days but thats just how I'd start fixing this mess.

RyanB

[Slow Five-O]

Brahamas are always fun...LOTS o fighting!

yup... same for texas tornados!