NEWS: NHL Cancel Remainder of 2004-05 Season

Wow, that's pretty nuts.

I've been so turned off of hockey since that Bertuzzi thing. That was soooo nasty. I mean, nasty even for hockey.

Bastards. They cancel the season over a difference of 7 Million per team? FUCK that.

*sadly folds up my Red Wings #19 jersey until next season*

Damnit the only sport I can watch, and play. I've missed it this year

yay!

And it means #19 for Detroit may not suit up again.

It wasn't really a difference of 7 million. The article is misleading. The owners gave 42 million as a non-negotiable last offer. Once the union countered, it was over.

Twist the knife a little more, why dontcha?


[Edited on Feb 17, 2005 by Subrosa]

Hockey is dead.

Yeah, the differences between the two were much deeper than that. The players wanted the salary cap to have a lot more wiggle room than the owners did, and much lighter penalties for exceeding it.

My guess is that the NHL wants to break the union. I look for next season to begin with replacement players.

i hope next season brings the same cap philosophy with a new commissioner. nobody likes bettman. but i hate the nhlpa even more right now

if anyone wants to pay me an average of 1.3 mil to play hockey, sign me up right now.
the nfl has a cap of 80 million dollars, with two and a half time the revenue that the nhl has. and the nhlpa wants a cap close to 50 mil. that's selfish.it's assinine.
screw them. i'd rather watch junior hockey now anyways.
good job nhlpa for alienating some of the games biggest fans.

Damn it! The Wings were going to win this season too...

I blame it on the expansion teams, they all want to get paid like a real Hockey player but they can't sell tickets. If the NHL didn't have them I bet we wouldn't be in this situation...

New rule, if you live somewhere where you can't make real ice, you don't get a hockey team!

And Louys, not to defend the violence, but Moore was asking for the initial punch. Bertuzzi isn't a goon, he doesn't play like that. But that season in particular the Aves were agitators. And when you push and push like that someone is going to smack you down. Look what they did to Steve Yzerman just the week before.

I have watched the Bertuzzi footage over and over, and I honestly believe that Bertuzzi got a lucky sucker punch in that KO'd Moore, Bertuzzi had ahold of his jersey and when Moore went down his weight pulled Bertuzzi down too, and the force of Todd's weight is what broke his neck, not the punch.

The media said over and over that Bertuzzi maliciously drove Moore's face into the ice, but watch the footage, Todd looks surprised to be falling over.

Sorry for the off topic side track...

I blame the Ottawa Senators.

But I also blame them for cholera, smallpox, and the tsunami disaster.

ONly sport i actually enjoy watching that doesn't have a million time outs or is just plain old boring what a crock of shit

Big deal.
Hockey hasn't been an interesting sport in years. I'd swear it used to be a good entertaining sport, but I just can't watch it anymore.

and this is news why...?

Hey, a nickel.

[Edited on Feb 17, 2005 by Jeff_Fries]

who gives a shit???...sports mean nothing to me other than encouraging idiots to get drunk and yell about crap...go to the library and read a book...enrich your life and spend your time focusing on something real...sports is a diversion from doing anything that is meaningful in this life...go look at naked girls at least ....

hose me right up the pooper, hosers.

So don't watch. I enjoy sports. I read books too. GASP! multitasking!

That said, screw the greedy owners and players, because they're all set for life. The people who lost the most are the folks who work in concessions, team bus drivers, etc. $10 an hour (if that much) people who are now shit outta luck because players and owners couldn't agree on a couple of million dollars.

I don't like the majority of sports, but that doesn't mean there is no value to them. You need to redirect your pent up rage from getting beat up by jocks in high school or something.

So what do yout ell to the Tampa Bay franchise? They just won the Stanley Cup.

Also, someone said the owners are jsut trying to break the union, thats a complete exaggeration. Last season the NHL lost $225 million, the Islanders alone were $25 million in the red. would you want to own a team if you were paying out 25 million dollars each season?

NHL has no TV contract, terrible attendance, watered down teams due to overexapnsion and a bad image, they need a hard cap more then anyone else. The NFL is the most sucessful league in the land, and they have a cap tahts hard as a rock, so that 1 team doesnt act like the Yankees, so that stars flurish in various amrkets, so that every team can win.

The Players Reps vastly underestimated the resolve of the owners, and cost them a season. Most teams lost alot of money from canceling teh season, shockingly, not as much as they would have lost if they played the season.

Alos, Gary Betmann guarenteed a season in 05-06, replacement players? hopfully not, but there will be hockey next season, in all likelyhood.

*holds a gun to your head and forces you to click this thread*