i am dave
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Morrow said:14 players are paid more than 6 million dollars.
On a side note, Does anyone remember a long time ago when Jeremy Roenick suggested this in one of his rants?
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Roenick offers up his own CBA plan
TSN.ca Staff
9/1/2004
Nobody has asked him, but Jeremy Roenick says he has a plan for ending the current stalemate in collective bargaining talks between the NHL and its Players Association.
Roenick tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that under his scheme, each team would be allowed to sign as many players as it chooses to a contract which would be capped at between $6-million and $7-million a season. A smaller cap would apply for players at the bottom end of the salary scale.
"One of the things we need is for every club to guarantee that it spend a certain amount of money to make it fair across the board for every team," Roenick tells the newspaper.
"The flip side of it is: We bring the minimum salary up for guys at the other end, plus set caps on what rookies can make, depending upon where they are drafted."
Roenick admits his idea does not have the backing of the NHLPA, which has made their position on any kind of "salary cap" quite clear throughout these negotiations.
NHL owners have demanded a salary cap of $31 million while the union has put forth proposals which include a luxury tax model and also offered to rollback salaries 5 percent while offering concessions on entry-level salaries of rookies.
"I think our union has made some good proposals to the league and shown that we recognize things have to be scaled back a bit," Roenick added.
The collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and its players is set to expire on September 15.