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Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
but your points ... such as they are ... still don't get to why the NHLPA should insist on being paid without regard to income.... You're not a union worker by any chance?

My comment was poorly communicated. A pox on both their houses....the players are no more spoiled then the owners are greedy. Owners are free to offer less money and the players free to accept it at any time. If their specific free market does not afford that possibility then it is the responsibility of the parties to negotiate in good faith.... I don't think either party is negotiating in good faith. That is just my opinion.

"union worker" - this is a contextual question? I am an executive in a commercial business and have no union connections.

ALL CAPS or not, I still can't get so worked up about it -- if it's cheating, it's cheating that I really don't care about.... and I don't care.

Put CHEATING in a non-lionizing context. You run Business A and a competitor runs business B. Business A pays attention to the laws and regulations of the land and business B does not. Business B's net profit is higher than Business A due to a reduction in regulatory cost and has a higher stock price as a result. Business A is forced into bankruptcy. If you are the owner of Business A - is CHEATING important or mere moral relativism? My point is that in a free market the rules should be the same for all participants. Frankly, I could care less about baseball or professional athletes.

If you need to buy in to the cult of personality surrounding professional athletes, go right ahead; you've got plenty of company. I prefer to lionize people who do shyt that actually matters. But that's just me.

I agree - Gary and Bob do not have the best interests of the game in mind - both are hired mouthpieces paid to get their clients everything they can.

Hockey is really all the players can do, so it's incredibly stupid not to take something (which is still hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars a year) when your other options are wash cars or work at your brother-in-law's lumber yard

This comment is beneath your obvious intelligence. Are you so sure the players aren't creating an economically advantageous negotiating position for the future?