Showing posts with label nhl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nhl. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
NHL hockey about some of the things. I think you should know.
I think if you are hockey fan then you must have known that had happened. So if you want to know more about it?The National Hockey League (NHL) Trade Deadline is a date set by the NHL League Office in which teams can no longer make trades or aquire new players for the remainder of the season. Teams can only trade players on their active rosters on this day until 3:00pm eastern standard time(EST). The trade deadline for the 2011-2012 NHL season was set for February 27th. Prior to the current collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the trade deadline date had been in mid-March but under the current CBA, the trade deadline is on the 40th day counting back from the end of the regular season.
To know more about what we don't know it. About the NHL hockey. This is the most important.The trade deadline usually brings a wave of trades from teams trying to either make a push to qualify for the playoffs, or teams who are trying to add that last key piece which will cement their status as a juggernaut in the league. On the opposite side of the spectrum, teams that know they have no chance of making the playoffs or winning a Stanley Cup that year are trying to re-invigorate their lineup by adding young prospects and picking up draft picks in an effort to vie in the upcoming season. In Canada, the NHL trade deadline is treated with such connotation that sports stations such as TSN and The Score devote the entire trade deadline day to breakdown the trades. While this all seems glamorous from a fans perspective, no one really takes into consideration the stress and anxiety this causes the players of the NHL.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
NHL hockey, I know things and share.
I'm willing to and nearby of friend to discuss about the NHL hockey things. I know it is a very good choice.Now I want to look a little bit at the NHLPA, Donald Fehr, and how their position has been changed as a result of this news. For them it is very simply, bad. Fehr is supposed to be this genius at securing better wages for professional athletes and is the primary man responsible for the current structuring of the MLB and why the highest paid athletes in that league are receiving contracts in excess of a quarter billion dollars. Now Sid has gone and basically shattered any expectations of getting “more” from the NHL owners. As I hinted at earlier, the maximum contract Crosby could have signed would have been approximately $14 million per season. The current CBA allows for a maximum contract of 20% of the salary cap in any one given year. If the world’s best player was unwilling even come anywhere close to maxing out that number, what does that mean for the also rans in the NHL?
I believe that like hockey friends will know some many people do not know things.It doesn’t have to mean anything, in the seven years since the league last negotiated collective bargaining and installed the salary cap the average NHL salary has more than doubled, unless you want the Penguins to be dishing out $4 million per year for Deryk Engelland it is really doubtful to double again. If anything I really applaud Crosby and his agent for not waiting on the NHLPA to weigh in on the situation. He’s espousing the right values that we should all live by, and he’s avoiding the trap that even the Great One couldn’t avoid, and he’s doing this before he can even rent a car.
I believe that like hockey friends will know some many people do not know things.It doesn’t have to mean anything, in the seven years since the league last negotiated collective bargaining and installed the salary cap the average NHL salary has more than doubled, unless you want the Penguins to be dishing out $4 million per year for Deryk Engelland it is really doubtful to double again. If anything I really applaud Crosby and his agent for not waiting on the NHLPA to weigh in on the situation. He’s espousing the right values that we should all live by, and he’s avoiding the trap that even the Great One couldn’t avoid, and he’s doing this before he can even rent a car.
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