Thread: The Official CBA Negotiations/Lockout Super Thread

Originally Posted by boy1der

...the Rags can keep luring all the UFAs with huge contracts, while unloading the guys (Gomez) with other huge contracts, that didn't pan out. Then the team that gets those players (The Habs) stay in perpetual sucktitude because they need to SOMEHOW reach the floor, without being able to land the top UFAs, because, well, they suck and the UFAs wouldn't want to go there anyway.

But every team can do that. Where the Rangers have an advantage because they're rich is burying guys in the minors while still paying their NHL salaries, like Wade Redden.

Originally Posted by Toothless

Don't forget Assassins Creed III. They have a lot of game play to go before they start talking again.

The side quests alone will take a long time to get through.

**Rumor Alert! No link, reliable source, evidence, or proof of any kind**

I heard Bill Carroll today on 640AM, say that he heard from "a friend with connections", that the owners are in no hurry to get anything done yet. They want to punish the players, and are going to let them miss at least another check or two.

Carroll used to live in Canada, so it seemed like a source at least as credible as the whispers in a local Taco Bell.

Originally Posted by Lappy!

**Rumor Alert! No link, reliable source, evidence, or proof of any kind**

I heard Bill Carroll today on 640AM, say that he heard from "a friend with connections", that the owners are in no hurry to get anything done yet. They want to punish the players, and are going to let them miss at least another check or two.

Carroll used to live in Canada, so it seemed like a source at least as credible as the whispers in a local Taco Bell.

Well based on Bill Daly's comments today, that sounds like a pretty reasonable rumor.

Helene Elliott ‏@helenenothelen
NHL lockout: Daly says league is 'done with making proposals' http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...,4293148.story … via @latimes

After reading and thinking over the last week, here's my take:

The owners have no reason to negotiate at this time. They have their "Drop Dead Date", and by just letting the players sit, they feel they can gain more in the long run by making the players wait.

They likely will move off of their position, but they don't need to until they want to start the season (January starts the sweet spot in the schedule).

**EDIT Sure enough, Bettman said to take a couple of weeks off.

http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/86...ks-sources-say

They come back at it the first of December, hammer out an agreement by the 15th, start camps and have a nice Xmas break, and start up with games on the 26th.

I'm ****ing brilliant.

Originally Posted by Lappy!

They want to punish the players...

Hasn't Fehr punished them enough?

Poor silly bastards.

Originally Posted by Bogey

Hasn't Fehr punished them enough?

Poor silly bastards.

They knew what they were getting when they hired him.
If there is any truth to the punishment idea, it's probably revenge for bringing in Fehr in the first place.

Still gotta wonder how the league will handle the collateral damage. I can't believe they'd be naive enough to not have plan B's for franchises like Phoenix, FLA, Nashville, Columbus, etc.

Originally Posted by UnholyGoalie

Still gotta wonder how the league will handle the collateral damage. I can't believe they'd be naive enough to not have plan B's for franchises like Phoenix, FLA, Nashville, Columbus, etc.

Plan B? What plan B? For what? From where? In the previous CBA?