It’s decision time.
Tuesday February 15, 2005 at 5:56 pm | Filed under Sports
The NHL is on the brink of canceling the season, but as always with hockey, there’s always a chance the tide will turn and things will change in the last moments. As of about 30 minutes ago, the owner’s have submitted their final proposal that suggests a $42.5 million salary cap per team. This attempt comes after both sides have significantly compromised on some key issues. The owners un-linked revenue to salary cap, and the players agreed to a salary cap at all. the cap amount seems to be the final sticking point. They were $12 million apart this morning, and now they’re 9.5 mil apart.
Wednesday at 11am Eastern is the deadline for the players to accept the owners’ offer or the commisioner Gary Bettman will hold a press conference at 1pm Eastern to cancel the season.
I’m really mixed up about the whole deal. As much as I’d love to see some hockey this year, I don’t want the HUGE asterisk behind whoever takes home the cup is a season were to happen. So while I wanna get some skates on the ice, I want it to be for the right reasons. So I guess if they’ve decided on a plan that will prevent this type of labor dispute from happening for a long long time, then let’s go ahead and do the abbreviated season. If they’re just settling on a quick (yeah, right) decision then I’d rather they not even play this year and fix this thing for good before they lace’em up again.
Here’s the latest article about it on Yahoo News.
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