Union: Proposal would produce $275.5M profit
This is not exactly what I call progress. When NHL players are publicly disputing management’s figure, you just have to know that an agreement is not even on the horizon. These folks couldn’t agree on a dinner menu, much less come on anything resembling a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
NEW YORK — The NHL Players’ Association disputed claims by the league that the union’s latest collective bargaining agreement proposal would generate severe losses.
Using a 3-year projection based on league numbers, the NHLPA said on Thursday that its offer — which featured an across-the-board 24 percent salary rollback — would produce a $275.5 million profit for teams as opposed to a $568.5 million loss, as stated by the NHL.
“That constructs a wholly misleading, illusory and unsupported picture of the NHLPA’s proposal,” union head Bob Goodenow said in a conference call.
Yeah, and to make things worse, they’re ugly and they smell badly…. Nya nya nya nya nya….
There is only one way that this lockout is going to get settled in our lifetimes. Let’s force Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow to each drink a liter of water and two cups of coffee. We’ll force them to put on heavy down parkas. Then we’ll lock them in an overheated, airless room with no bathroom. There will be only one rule: no one comes out until an agreement on a new CBA is reached. I figure the first hour or so shouldn’t be too bad, but after maybe two hours, they’ll be miserably hot and their bladders will be fit to burst. Nothing like the pressure of a deadline to focus one’s attention, eh?
Of course, my idea and my dream will remain little more than the product of my feverish, overactive, and hockey-starved imagination. Game on, eh? Not bloody likely. There ought to be a very special place in Hell for both Goodenow and Bettman.
