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Not Bob
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.

The only thing missing from this thorough explanation was the Gwinky's "negotiation" with player reps Tkachuk, Hawerchuk and Konolwalchuk