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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I really don't know much about this, but why isn't a salary cap fair? The other sports have them. From what I've seen (and I know at least one hockey fan will say I'm an idiot- I admit all I know is by vaguely listen to the news about the Wings) the Wings buy lots of the better players and the smaller cities can't compete. I realize the cap would be to keep an owner or two in check, but that's always been the case in the other sports too. shit, I read that volleyball has ESPN ratings that rival regular season NHL games. Volleyball players aren't pulling 10 million.
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Whose fault is it that a hockey player is making $10 million? Who signs the checks each week? Smaller cities not competing? Uh, tell that to Calgary.
As for cost certainty, the players have proposed a luxury tax arrangement -- if the Wings want to pay too much for Shannahan, a penalty is imposed, and the revenue generated by all the penalties are share among the teams.
Here's the underlying problem, though -- the players simply don't believe that the owners are losing money.
Why? Here's a hypothetical based upon the structure of a few teams floating around out there -- Not Bob Enterprises, Inc. owns the Podunkville Pissants, a Norris Division NHL team. The Pissants play in The Podunkville Palace, a facility owned and operated by Not Bob Enterprises, Inc. The Palace is also a venue for No Doubt concerts, monster truck events, and Promise Keeper rallies.
Not Bob's clever accountants tell him that there are tax advantages to having all of the expenses related to the Palace debited to the hockey team, but the hockey team doesn't get the credit for all of the profits the Palace makes on the beer I sell for $10 a cup at a Toby Keith "America! (Fuck Yeah!)" type concert. The numbers show that the team is losing money, yet Not Bob Entertainment, Inc. is making dough hand over fist.
This free flow of money allows the owner of Not Bob Enterprises, Inc. to pay for strippers and blow in an effort to seduce bn'b into an ass-fucking session.
