[NHL] League Locks Out Again

[JetWing34]

After the NFL and NBA lockouts of 2011, the NHL goes on strike.



NHL commissioner Gary Bettman warned the players throughout this past year -- more aggressively during the labor negotiations during the past two months -- that the league intended to lock out the players if a new deal wasn't reached by midnight Saturday, when the collective bargaining agreement expired.



http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/8382911/nhl-officially-locks-players-cba-expires



[font=comic sans ms, cursive]The hockey leagues you'll have to follow now are the minor leagues or European Leagues that your favourite player is playing in.



[font=comic sans ms, cursive]Do you think there will be an abridged 2012-13 season and a Cup winner next year?

 

[JetWing34]

The NHL must stay alive, JM. This league would have been much better if they had Bettman resigning.



Bettman is a jerk who, in his first three or four years was part of hockey teams that moved out of hockey states and provinces and into states that HOCKEY IS NEVER PLAYED IN (Minnesota North Stars to Dallas in '93, Winnipeg Jets 1972 to Phoenix in '96, Hartford Whalers to Charlotte, NC in '97). He did a good job with landing new franchises in states of Tennessee, Minnesota, and Ohio in the new millennium, but Atlanta was a flop and it instead moved to Winnipeg last year.



Yeah, if I were the NHL commissioner, I would agree on a CBA that is automatically good to the NHLPA's ear. Then I would help teams with financial struggles move to Canada or hockey cities in America starving to death for hockey BECAUSE IT'S CANADA'S SPORT, not the southern sport.