Sorry about the delay blogheads but I'm finally back and tonight I will be revealing the blog that I've been doing some in depth research on. But, more on that later. Right now more negotiation talks have commenced and more negotiation talks have failed leading to the canceling of more than a quarter of the NHL season. It would appear Mr. Bettman is not a fan of my blog and has decided to leave the NHL to its impending doom. While the NHL and NHLPA are getting closer in negotiations, they are still not seeing eye to eye.
If this deal is going to get done it is going to come down to one thing. Respect. The biggest issue in the whole negotiation process is that the NHL does not respect their players and that is a major issue. NHL players are, on average, the lowest paid athletes in the major professional sports. The average pay for an NHL player isn't even minimum wage of an NFL player. Which, if you ask me, is quite ironic. It could be argued that hockey is the toughest sport to play. Imagine playing a sport in which you have knives strapped to your feet chasing a tiny little rubber puck around with sticks on the hardest playing surface in athletic competition. Did I forget to mention you are skating at speeds of upwards of 35 miles per hour while everyone on the ice wants to kill you? Do that for 60 minutes of game play and then throw in an entire NBA season's worth of games. That's more than 5 times the amount of games that NFL players play. I think that Mr. Bettman should give his players a little more than 48 percent of the revenue. And considering how violent of a sport this actually is, he should probably take a look into better health benefits as well. Without the players Mr. Bettman, you don't have a product. Without a product, you can forget about the 52 percent of revenue you're supposed to make.
Let's get a deal done. Let's get it done soon.
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