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Well, I did say mostly American owners. I shouldn't absolve Canadian owners of responsiblity. There are plenty of greedy and stupid Canadian Capitalists too; however, I think Canadian teams moving South are driven as much by the inability to afford quality players for competitive teams, as it is...

I probably shouldn't have said that the NHL should get out of the U.S market. I basically said that because of latent and increasing feelings of anti-Americanism. The NHL used to be in relatively good shape until they expanded into U.S warm weather markets. The resulting explosion of greed and...

Maybe the NHL should get out of the American market. The NHL's U.S expansion experiment has been almost uniformly disastrous.

A 28 game regular season, followed by playoffs, is a farce. Even if they do come to an agreement they should just call it a day and prepare for next years marketing blitz, because they are going to need it. Of course, if Bettman is still there helming the required marketing campaign, it will...

The NHLPA can't win. They don't agree to the company demand for a salary cap and the general tone is...."the players are greedy snd don't give a shit about hockey or the fans". They now give in to the company demand for a salary cap and it's, essentially, "well, they are just agreeing so they...

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How do you know that player costs are outpacing revenue? Do you have access to the NHL league books? The books for individual NHL teams are not public knowledge. One of the player associations main complaints is that they are not being given a full and accurate accounting of all revenues...