NHL Cancels More Games

Today, the NHL reached out and canceled games that had been scheduled through Nov. 30th. This is just a complete joke that these two sides can not figure this out considering they both have agreed that the split should move to a 50/50 split. Right now the players get 57% of the pie. If both sides agree on that 50% split, what's the hold-up? Well, the owners want to want to cut the players salaries down to size so that the salaries will fit into that nice 50/50 split right now. Yeah, never mind that these same owners are the ones that signed the contracts to pay out that much money. Why honor their own signatures, right? The "promise" that the players will get any of the money cut this year paid back out the remaining years of their contracts (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). Well then what happens next year when paying the players this money back, the players pie gets up over 50% again? Do the owners throw another tantrum and stomp their feet and hold their breath?

On the other side you have the players, who in their last offers to the league said they wanted to get the players share down to that 50% split, but neither one of their official offers got down that far while giving them sizable raises each year. That sound you just heard was my head slamming against the desk a few times. How on earth can you say you agree with that 50/50 split and turn in two different offers stating that they both get down to 50%, when in fact neither of them do?

These sides are SO close to figuring this out, why can't they see how easy this is? Owners, honor the deals YOU signed. Players, how about accepting slightly smaller raises each year through the deal? If they simply cut 1.5$ off the current 57% salary cap each season, they will get to their beloved 50/50 split in four seasons. With the leagues revenue growing as fast as it had been up until this ridiculous lockout, they players salaries will still be going up even with the lower percentage of revenue going to them. If they sign a seven-year deal, the last three seasons will be played with both sides splitting the revenues 50/50.

Now, someone go knock some sense into these two spoiled babies, show them how simple this is to figure out, and for the love of all things frozen, can we have some NHL hockey?!?