SA Footy

I know the current one is still playing but Tim Thomas is planning on sitting out this season his last under contract with the Boston Bruins.

Our first Australian Player is about to be drafted by and NHL team
http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/you ... 60uaj?from

Official start for NHL season was to be 1st October 2012 - obviously this won't happen now.

News is that this lock-out could spell the end of the 2012-13 Season.....

blink wrote:Official start for NHL season was to be 1st October 2012 - obviously this won't happen now.

News is that this lock-out could spell the end of the 2012-13 Season.....

I hope not.

Already bought some tickets for January.

Pag wrote:

blink wrote:Official start for NHL season was to be 1st October 2012 - obviously this won't happen now.

News is that this lock-out could spell the end of the 2012-13 Season.....

I hope not.

Already bought some tickets for January.

Mate be prepared for a long lockout. Not looking good at all.

Disgrace.

The sport which says loves the fans more than any other once again let them down. Hockey was really on the rise too.

Didn't they just have a lockout 2-3 seasons ago?

2004/5

Pup wrote:2004/5

time flys, only seemed a few seasons ago

The way its looking they wont play a game at all this season. Not looking good at all

All pre season games cancelled now after day 4.

Pag wrote:I hope not.

Already bought some tickets for January.

I was hoping to get over to the States/Canada early next year and catch a few NBA/NHL games. Guessing this won't be on now....

Players flocking to the KHL and the Swiss A League.
Ovechkin threatening never to return to the NHL (which I can't see possible as I reckon he signed some massive deal tying him to the Caps until 2020-21).
Teams are cutting staff all over. The pre-season being scrapped alone has cost clubs 6 games and clubs like the Leafs rake in between $1.6-$2.1 million per home game! How can they afford to pay the players these huge amounts when they are not making any money....

blink wrote:

Pag wrote:I hope not.

Already bought some tickets for January.

I was hoping to get over to the States/Canada early next year and catch a few NBA/NHL games. Guessing this won't be on now....

Players flocking to the KHL and the Swiss A League.
Ovechkin threatening never to return to the NHL (which I can't see possible as I reckon he signed some massive deal tying him to the Caps until 2020-21).
Teams are cutting staff all over. The pre-season being scrapped alone has cost clubs 6 games and clubs like the Leafs rake in between $1.6-$2.1 million per home game! How can they afford to pay the players these huge amounts when they are not making any money....

Ovie still has 9 years to run on his contract at the Caps.
He does want to return but not if wages are cut. There would be many in the same boat

The NHL has a salary cap of around 66 million per team. The owners want to pay the players less and the players still want the bigger share of the pie. Teams in non hockey playing area's are struggling to make ends meet due to contract demands for RFA's as they need to match the teams with money offers. This is the third lockout under commissioner Gary Bettman. The fans are up in arms and it is not helping the league at all. With now all pre season games canned this will get worse before better. The NHLPA lawyer has said this could go for 2 years. Both sides are killing this league through their own Greed.

Strawb wrote:The NHL has a salary cap of around 66 million per team. The owners want to pay the players less and the players still want the bigger share of the pie. Teams in non hockey playing area's are struggling to make ends meet due to contract demands for RFA's as they need to match the teams with money offers. This is the third lockout under commissioner Gary Bettman. The fans are up in arms and it is not helping the league at all. With now all pre season games canned this will get worse before better. The NHLPA lawyer has said this could go for 2 years. Both sides are killing this league through their own Greed.

Thats the bottom line.

Looks like the first 2 weeks of the regular season are going to be canned.
Not looking good.

http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/84581 ... n-proposal
NEW YORK -- The rhetoric is rising, while the time before the planned start of the NHL regular season is running out.

And now it seems more likely than not that regular-season games will be canceled before the league and the Players' Association even get back to the negotiating table.

The sides broke off talks Tuesday after just two hours, and it was hard to find optimism anywhere that the season would avoid a major disruption -- just seven years after a full season was lost to a lockout.

"Not prepared to speculate on next steps at this point," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press in an email on Wednesday. "Obviously, we've been saying for over a month now that we would welcome a new proposal from the Players' Association. That continues to be our position.

"(It's) not a constructive position to say, 'Here's our first offer. We think it's really good. Call us back when you are ready to accept it.' That's what the union has effectively done here."

http://aol.sportingnews.com/nhl/story/2 ... 1481237582
Consider the NHL’s engagement of Luntz Global to be money well spent.

A day after details leaked of the league’s work with focus groups to shape its message during the month-old NHL lockout, Gary Bettman made his best public relations move of the summer and fall by bringing a new CBA proposal to Toronto on Tuesday to present to the NHLPA.

Strawb wrote:http://aol.sportingnews.com/nhl/story/2012-10-16/nhl-lockout-news-2012-owners-offer-5050-escrow-frank-luntz-hockey-strike?fb_action_ids=4387675482756&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=story-4269539&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
Consider the NHL’s engagement of Luntz Global to be money well spent.

A day after details leaked of the league’s work with focus groups to shape its message during the month-old NHL lockout, Gary Bettman made his best public relations move of the summer and fall by bringing a new CBA proposal to Toronto on Tuesday to present to the NHLPA.

I am not going to hold my breath, but the article does paint an optimistic picture, and like everyone else I just want the season to start.

Whatever the case, a third CBA related delay/lock-out to the season under the watch of Gary Bettman has to result in calls to end his reign.

All games in November have been canned, still hoping to start the season on December 1 but its looking doubtful