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Around the NHL: PTO Season Becomes Waiver Season

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Gras said:
Has to do with the residential that they want to build into the complex, wouldn't be the first time that we have had an airport out here that has existed, then they build residential nearby and then the people move in and complain about the noise from the airport.
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Happens everywhere. There has been an expressway loop on the books and maps here in Greensboro, NC for decades and decades. Every time a new section gets completed, the local paper runs sob stories about people complaining about the noise from the recently opened loop when none of them lived there before it was on the map.

I remember reading in the Ken-Ton Bee Police Blotter back in the day about how every time Cardinal O'Hara would have a school dance, the neighbors who lived across the street from the school would call the cops about the noise and kids loitering. The cops would basically tell them you moved across the street from a high school - what did you expect?
 
Chainshot said:
Carolina shits themselves in the last minute and loses to Detroit. Sens win in OT, Pens win. Bleh.
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I think Buffalo just isn't quite there yet. This year was hopefully huge for development, and making the playoffs next year should 100% be expected, both by fans and internally to the team.
 
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Keith Tkachuk roasts Panthers: 'They're a soft team'

NHL legend Keith Tkachuk didn't hold back about his son Matthew's Florida Panthers."I'm a little disappointed in the Panthers," Keith told TSN 1050 on Wednesday morning ahead of Florida's 3-2 overtime victory against the Toronto Maple Leafs. "They're a soft team and they're getting everything...
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NHLPA boss Marty Walsh outlines early priorities in new role | TSN

Marty Walsh is still fresh in his new job as head of the NHL Players' Association and trying to learn what members of the union want. It didn't take long to figure out a couple of priorities.
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LeBrun: What will the NHLPA prioritize under Marty Walsh? Here's what we know so far, from the cap to a World Cup

The new NHLPA head also addressed player engagement, the Coyotes and Pride nights in a news conference and a one-on-one with The Athletic.
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Going after the salary cap​

It’s the white whale for players, right?

In the lead-up to the 2004-05 lockout, former NHLPA head Bob Goodenow repeatedly told his player base that if they wanted to fight off the NHL’s attempt to install a hard salary cap, they would have to be ready and willing — and plan ahead to get ready — to sit out two years in what would be a monumental battle with owners.

I cannot tell you how many times I quoted a player back then saying they would never accept a salary cap.

The players sat out one year before caving in and accepting a cap.

Can you undo a salary cap after that? And if Goodenow thought it would take two years to fight off a cap, by that same wisdom, would it take two years without hockey to get that cap eliminated?

I asked Walsh after his news conference if he would have the appetite for that fight.

“I mean listen, I’ve made it clear today and to the players when I got asked from the search committee and the executive board, that I follow the direction of the players,” Walsh responded. “It’s too early to be talking hypotheticals … but I think that it’s important for the players that the leader of the organization listens to them. It’s their organization. I’m chosen by them to be their executive director, so it’s not my opinion. We’ll have discussions around any issue when it comes to collective bargaining. If there’s strong feelings either way, I’m going to give my opinion, but at the end of the day, if the players want to negotiate whatever it is they want to negotiate, we’re going to negotiate that.”

But with all due respect, I said to Walsh, the salary cap is still the big one for players. Again, it’s the white whale.

Whether it’s realistic to go after it is another matter.

Walsh pointed to the other leagues of late.

“I mean the NBA right now is having a conversation on their negotiation. Baseball just finished a negotiation. I think the owners wanted a salary cap in that and didn’t get one at that point,” he said. “So there’s going to be a lot of conversations about does it work or doesn’t it work? At the end of the day, if we can continue to grow the sport of hockey and grow the revenue in hockey and continue to do good things, there’s lots of opportunities, lots of good things for the players. And I think that’s ultimately one of the things I should be focused on.”

If I were to read between the lines there, my first impression is that Walsh would only go after the cap if his player base expressly desires that lengthy fight.

And I don’t sense any real appetite for that from players at this point.

If anything, finding a way to soften the cap system is probably more realistic as a goal, but then the owners would fight even that big time.
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debaser66 said:
they are all overpaid anyways, its not quite the travesty of other sports tough
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Given the revenues in the game, I disagree with players being overpaid.

Now if you want to get into a philosophical debate about entertainers in general being overpaid in the world today, I would suggest staying away from web forums built around giving adults playing a kids game for our entertainment.

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Jim Bob said:
Given the revenues in the game, I disagree with players being overpaid.

Now if you want to get into a philosophical debate about entertainers in general being overpaid in the world today, I would suggest staying away from web forums built around giving adults playing a kids game for our entertainment.

:sarcasm:
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your first mistake is assuming its a philosophical matter
and no thanks
 
Jim Bob said:
Given the revenues in the game, I disagree with players being overpaid.

Now if you want to get into a philosophical debate about entertainers in general being overpaid in the world today, I would suggest staying away from web forums built around giving adults playing a kids game for our entertainment.

:sarcasm:
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Seriously- our owner made billions screwing up the environment so we could fill our F350s for cheap. It’s almost like the system does not care about societal or moral value.

But I digress.. goddammit I hate the isles. Trash team to make the ‘yoffs.
 
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