TheMadKat Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 While the owners and NHLPA discuss revenue measurement and reporting issues, the biggest sports television network declines to pick up the 2006 season option. What a bunch of tards.... Just as the owners and NHL execs have been saying from day one, the longer this takes, the less money available. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?ID=126216&hubName=nhl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 It was a pretty expected move for some time now. ESPN's gonna look to renegotiate at a smaller price to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BF_in_Indiana Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 I wouldn't even bother with the NHL if I were ESPN. Hockey is dead. The Stanley Cup Finals ratings are just horrible. Why even bother with the NHL? It's a dead league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 Its better than curling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLocke Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 Being Canadian I am the exception liking football more than hockey. People here are in denial about the NHL, atleast in my opinion they think think its right up there with the NBA, NFL and MLB, which they are not right? MLB, the NFL and the NBA have no trouble getting a contract from a major network, however it does not really seem like any of the major networks want the NHL, as it has bounced around from Fox to ABC and now NBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadBuffaloDisease Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 Being Canadian I am the exception liking football more than hockey. People here are in denial about the NHL, atleast in my opinion they think think its right up there with the NBA, NFL and MLB, which they are not right? MLB, the NFL and the NBA have no trouble getting a contract from a major network, however it does not really seem like any of the major networks want the NHL, as it has bounced around from Fox to ABC and now NBC. Hey, this is WB's chance! Go for it, froggie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VABills Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 It's better then the NBA on the NHL's worst day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofiba Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 It's better then the NBA on the NHL's worst day. 347182[/snapback] I would say today is NHL's worst day. Is this worse than the NBA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VABills Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 I would say today is NHL's worst day. Is this worse than the NBA? 347183[/snapback] I watch hockey more right now then I do NBA basketball. And by that I have seen more NFL games on ESPN classic in the last moth then I have any live NBA games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcali Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 While the owners and NHLPA discuss revenue measurement and reporting issues, the biggest sports television network declines to pick up the 2006 season option. What a bunch of tards.... Just as the owners and NHL execs have been saying from day one, the longer this takes, the less money available. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?ID=126216&hubName=nhl 347034[/snapback] INCREDIBLE stupidity by all involved in the NHL. The first mistake was paying players big time money in a regional league. Average salary in a league like this should be between 600 and 800k....-with only the Lemieux's and Gretzky's getting the big $. No one gives a damn about hockey west of the Mississippi or south of St louis.San Jose has an intense/loyal/local following---but they hardly even mention them on the bay area sports stations--and 1 out of a hundred in the bay area could even name any of their players. RIP to a once great league..a once great sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcali Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 I watch hockey more right now then I do NBA basketball. And by that I have seen more NFL games on ESPN classic in the last moth then I have any live NBA games. 347186[/snapback] The NBA sucks ....the quality has gone waaaay down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tux of Borg Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 The NBA has been on a steady decline for years. I use to like watching it when Jordan and Pippen won all those championships. I actually rooted for the first Dream Team in the olympics. Can't say I did that during the last olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLocke Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 I agree the NBA has gone way down hill the past few years. I enjoy the CFL more than the NBA. College basketball is still great imo. Can't get into College footbal for some reason unfortunately . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BADOLBILZ Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 While the owners and NHLPA discuss revenue measurement and reporting issues, the biggest sports television network declines to pick up the 2006 season option. What a bunch of tards.... Just as the owners and NHL execs have been saying from day one, the longer this takes, the less money available. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?ID=126216&hubName=nhl 347034[/snapback] IMO, this couldn't be going any better for the Buffalo Sabres. The agreement that was reportedly almost struck after the first "season cancellation" was too much of a concession to the players and big market teams, IMO. The Sabres franchise was on a death march, losing money hand over fist with a RELATIVELY low payroll, and Golisano would have never bought the team if he didn't know a correction was forthcoming. The more things like ESPN backing out that happen, the closer to equal revenue sharing, reasonable salaries and subsequently, reasonable ticket prices the NHL will get. If salaries get cheap, the NHL will lose some of the mid-level Euro's, but with any luck, fans in places like Atlanta and Nashville will lose all interest in the game like Montreal did after the last MLB strike and the league will contract and make the teams in cities that love hockey deeper. The NHL is not dead, and will not die, it will just be different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goober Posted May 28, 2005 Share Posted May 28, 2005 I watch hockey more right now then I do NBA basketball. And by that I have seen more NFL games on ESPN classic in the last moth then I have any live NBA games. 347186[/snapback] for a self-proclaimed intellectual who corrects the grammar of others, you should learn the difference between than and then. The meaning of your sentence changes dramatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalkie Gerzowski Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 The NY Post, with crazy Larry Brooks, is claiming that the salary level will be 24-28 million basement and 32-36 million salary cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 The NBA has been on a steady decline for years. I use to like watching it when Jordan and Pippen won all those championships. I actually rooted for the first Dream Team in the olympics. Can't say I did that during the last olympics. 347205[/snapback] I have been an NBA fan for almost 30 years. I agree, there is plenty to dislike about the leauge, but as an avid Celtics fan, I can remember people making the same complaints about the Bird/Magic era NBA as they do about todays' leauge. IMO, the NBA has created a monster for itself, by marketing the individual players, over the teams. In essence, the NBA players really do have their leauge by the short and curlies! A lot of this is fallout from the Jordan era. I loved watching Jordan play, but when he was gone, the NBA obsessed itself with finding the "next Jordan". As a result, you have 30 guys across the leauge, thinking they are the "next Jordan", holding all the power with their franchises. What happened to Jim O'Brian in Philadelphia earlier this week is the perfect example. Was it Chris Webber or AI that got him fired, who knows. The only thing clear is that a great basketball coach got screwed to accomodate a one selfish player. This is one huge edge that the NFL has over all other sports. In the NFL there are few players who are well known outside of the world of the NFL. Fan loaylty seems to always lie more with the team, than the players themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark VI Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 The NY Post, with crazy Larry Brooks, is claiming that the salary level will be 24-28 million basement 347360[/snapback] That's where it should be. The revenue stream doesn't justify more than 2 Mil for the teams best player. The NHL is NOT a major sport in North America, otherwise people would actually watch national games on major networks. I read where Girls softball games were garnering higher ratings on ESPN. Now they don't have a national contract in America. The players must love playing for peanuts in Europe. They need to wake up and be happy playing a kids game for 1-2 Mil a year or STFU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live&DieBillsFootball Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 I'm not even sure that the NHL can afford the 24-28 million "floor". After the long layoff, they will have some work to do to get back the fans other than the die-hards. The players are so stupid. Each delay costs them more and more money. No player will ever make enough to make up for the money that they lost. The worst of the owners' proposals from last year will end up being higher than the final agreement they make. Last year, it seemed that the union was out for an agreement that would ensure high pay for the top players at the detriment of the rest of them. Not even the top players are going to benefit from a new agreement. No team will be able to afford to pay 8-10 million for one player and still be able to field a decent team. From a fan standpoint though, I think that this will have some big benefits. Ticket prices will be headed down and teams will have to really offer discounts to get the fans back. And lastly, my biggest complaint. with no NHL news and little NFL news, the sports section lately doesn't even last for a good crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VABills Posted May 29, 2005 Share Posted May 29, 2005 for a self-proclaimed intellectual who corrects the grammar of others, you should learn the difference between than and then. The meaning of your sentence changes dramatically. 347225[/snapback] Sorry you're barking up the wrong tree. Those I correct are for fun, because I know I am a bad speller. As far as being a self proclaimed intellectual, again wrong, others have assumed that since I tend to make a lot of sense. That's that makes you wrong on two things. Want to try for the strike out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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