NHL LOCK OUT

 hey guyz set up your own league

but watch out
for flyin elbows in the corners 

and 

keep your sticks on the ice 

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 typical coverage ....

notice its flat and doomy
no fire here

probably the league's
not worth shit 
like united airline
as is but ....

imagine 33% pay cuts
across the board 

and yet 
these "labor" stars 
all 700 plus of em 
are without 
signifigant
     popular support 
 
in fact 
the best one gets out of the fucking  
 "fan" press 
is 
         "a plague on both houses" 
                     type of shit

hey 
my ears are open
but this is anecdotal

are most side walk re-actions
really so  
    mulish and spiteful
towards these extra -ordinary guyz?


     in their  darkest heart of hearts
     does a vicious envy dwell
       a grotesquely
             anti player menace ?

or is this the usual press gang lean ?


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at any rate


where's the proper

 fuck the owners spirit?

 i wanna hear some celeb 
 besides dave letterman 
shout this out for once 

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back to the target :

the sole relevant question :

who gets 
what share of the net revenue 

 
players vs  owners ?




ok  you fucking
life long
fanatics 
ask yourself thiz

who do i  want 
 it to go to  here?

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 of course
the goosey goo goo 
sporting  press
 
can't ever 
seem to get this down
in black and white 

they never
lay it out here for uz


fuck who knows
what the  union hacks 
are telling them 

the fucking whiskey soaked deaf adders


but they'll let 
these owners numbers stand

despite 
 the most elementary
and  obvious jabber wokey 

like the claim 

" the league had
250 million dollar seasonal
aggregate
 operating losses 
the last two years running "

 okay for the sake of argument i'll buy that
but you're demanding
to the point of a lock out
 give backs 
 in excess of 360 million dollars annually 

(average of  500k per player 
times  720 players
gives you  360 million 
in 
annual give backs )

why  so big ?

what u  got cokin here?

maybe 
a little double back 
  double deal double cross ?

then
before you've 
fully  swallowed
 that turd
there's  another
steamin'
owner's   number 
on the plate
 
this one 
projects 
 a loss  
"if the league re-ups 
as under 
the expired  contract" 
 of around 
  1.8 billion 
over the next  ten years

 now i think that's 
an  average of 180 million
per year 

and this  phoney figure
 doesn't  cut
any super losing  teams out even

and fuck 
at least 6 are 
 bound to be gone soon 
 anyway you cut thiz 

their losses obviously 
  up this  aggregate considerably right?

so now the give backs look even worse...
now the leagues planning on big profits 
not break even

and hey
this is a serious social utility here
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keep your sticks on the ice boys

 sounds like zero hour 
is a fuckle buck 

 you alreadfy offered give backs worth 80 million 
don't budge 

this all implies 

what else 
fishy 
cartoon accounting 
 numbers 
the fucking press is acting like these are solid

and this after enron 

open the books 
to the public you bastards 

open em 
all the fuckin way 

all 30 teams
           one by one 

and 
players 
in stead of pissing away the moment

start organizing 
your own league for the 05-06 season 

why not?

what you got to lose here ?


plans are just that 
plans

but it puts pressure 
on the gold pricks 

set up your own league 
        and 
go skate for euros this winter

(250 players are already doing just that)

oh and skate for charities
skate like you never skated before
and sign autographs too 
donate donate donate 
time and money

to
cancer 
ms-cp 
 retardation
run aways 
land mines
 river blindness
  books for crooks 
etc etc 

give alot back 
that way
and you'll need to give less back
to the owners 

nothing like slobbering male fans
 to fall for that sucker
golden heart  move 

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NEW YORK (AP) -- The National Hockey League
 locked out its players Thursday
 threatening to keep the sport
 off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season 
and perhaps beyond
 in an effort by management
 to gain massive economic change



After the long-expected decision 
was approved unanimously Wednesday 
by NHL owners
 commissioner Gary Bettman 
repeatedly belittled 
the union's bargaining position
 talked about the possibility
 that the confrontation could extend 
into the 2005-06 season 
and said the conflict
 has jeopardized the NHL's
 participation in the 2006 Winter Olympics.

"If there's enough time 
to play some games, we'll do it,"
 he said of this season,
 "and if there's not, we won't."

Bettman called it a "bleak day,"
 claimed teams had combined 
to lose more than $1.8 billion
 over 10 years
 and cited bankruptcy filings 
by teams 
in Buffalo, Los Angeles, Ottawa and Pittsburgh

. He said management 
will not agree 
to a labor deal 
that doesn't include 
a defined relationship
 between revenue and salaries.

"Until he gets off the salary-cap issue,
 there's not a chance 
for us to get an agreement,"
 union head Bob Goodenow 
said in Toronto,
 adding that players
 "are not prepared to entertain 
a salary cap in any way, shape, measure or form."

Far apart on both philosophy and finances,
 the sides haven't bargained
 since last Thursday 
and say they are entrenched 
for the long run,
 echoing words 
of baseball players and owners 
at the start of their disastrous 
7 1/2-month labor war of 1994-95.

There is almost no chance 
the season will start 
as scheduled on Oct. 13,
 and Bettman told teams 
to release their arenas 
for other events 
for the next 30 days.
 Bettman said the season 
can't extend past June,
 and the lockout threatens 
to wipe out the Stanley Cup finals
 for the first time since 1919, 
when the series 
between Montreal and Seattle 
was stopped after five games
 due a Spanish influenza epidemic.

"The union is trying to win a fight,
 hoping that the owners will give up.
 That will turn out to be
 a terrible error in judgment," 
Bettman said.
 "They are apparently convinced
 that come some point in the season,
 the owners' resolve will waver, 
and I'm telling you that is wrong, wrong, wrong."

NHL management claims 
teams combined to lose
 $273 million in 2002-03
 and $224 million last season.

 Bettman said the union's proposals 
would do little for owners,
 and said the six offers 
rejected by the union 
would lower the average player salary
 from $1.8 million to $1.3 million.

Goodenow said players 
had offered more than $100 million
 in annual concessions.

"The notion that 
we don't have competitive balance 
is absurd," 
said Vancouver center Trevor Linden,
 the union's president.

Bettman made clear 
that declaring an impasse 
under U.S. labor law 
and imposing new work rules 
unilaterally was an option,
 but said it had not yet
 been considered.

"I think it's pretty fair to say 
that we're at an impasse right now,
 and my guess is that 
we've probably been at impasse for months,
 if not a year," he said.
 "At some point when we're at impasse,
 we could simply say,
 `We're going to open,
 and here are the terms and conditions.
 Let's go.' It's that simple."

Goodenow said 
attempting to impose terms 
would be a "very, very ill-advised strategy" 
and predicted 
"the results of it could be catastrophic." 
Bettman said the use of replacement players
 is not under consideration.

Owners have contributed $300 million 
to a league fund 
to help get them through a lockout,
 and the union has retained 
licensing money to help its members.
 Bettman said about 20 teams 
would lose less money 
during a lockout 
than they would if play continued.

"It is a sad day for all of us," 
Montreal owner George Gillett said.

The 30 teams 
-- 24 in the United States and six in Canada --
 had been set to start opening
 training camps on Thursday,
 the day after the expiration 
of the current labor contract.
 The deal was first agreed to 
in 1995 and extended two years later 
through Sept. 15, 2004. 
Bettman termed the extension
 "a mistake, in hindsight."

"It  kinda stinks,
 packing up and moving out of here," 
Philadelphia right wing Tony Amonte said
 at his team's practice rink.
 "I can't say they weren't preparing us for it."

Some players are expected 
to sign with European leagues,
 and others could join a six-team,
 four-on-four circuit 
called the Original Stars Hockey League,
 which is set to start play 
Friday in Barrie, Ontario. 
Others could go to 
a revived World Hockey Association,
 which plans to open Oct. 29 
with eight teams playing 76 games apiece.

Bettman said more than 100 employees 
from the NHL's central staff 
of about 225 will be terminated,
 most on Sept. 20.

The stoppage is the first 
for a North American major league
 since the 1998-99 NBA lockout 
canceled 464 games,
 cutting each club's regular-season schedule
 from 82 games to 50.

It is the third stoppage
 for the NHL following 
a 10-day strike in 1992 
that caused the postponement
 of 30 games
 and a 103-day lockout
 in 1994-95 that eliminated 468 games,
 cutting each team's regular-season schedule
 from 84 games to 48. 
That lockout ended on Jan. 11,
 five days before the deadline set 
by Bettman to scuttle the season.

Baseball has had eight work stoppages,
 the last causing 
the cancellation of 921 regular-season games 
over two years 
and canceling the World Series 
for the first time since 1904
. The NFL has had four strikes,
 including two during the regular season,
 but has enjoyed labor peace since 1987.