Well its Offical the NHL season has been canceled. Who really Cares In Here?

Alaska

 

I love that time of year when the hockey playoffs and basketball playoffs overlap. Won't happen this year though.

I'm bummed. Hockey is a great game.

 

I care, huge Flyers, Philly not Dayton, fan. But living in NM now I wouldn't have been able to see many games anyway. It'll be interesting to see how the fans will react once the NHL does come back.

 

what would be your reaction if Stern screwed the NBA out of a whole damn season!?!?!?! especially when the team started to mesh together (say after this year if the rockets keep up the pace). The canucks finally won a division title for the season and took the flames to overtime in game 7 WITHOUT Bertuzzi (the equivalent to a Yao Ming).

you'd be pissed if it happened to the NBA, as would I. But i'm more pissed that it happened to my #1 sport, hockey.

 

WTF is the NHL???

 

NOw there is more time for the Basketball highlights on ESPN.

 

What is this "hockey" you speak of?

 

I don't know if our good ol' beloved Bert will be allowed to play, since he has to get permission from the NHL (and the IIHF too?)

For the time being, I am just enjoying the Swedish Elite League in NHL 2005, in which I put Bert with Naslund and the Sedin Twins for MODO... not to mention of Aucoin, Hinote, Hedin, Salomonsson, Savardet, and Tommy Salo.... If Morrison played for MODO instead of Linkoping that will be even better

 

Bingo. Texas board. Hockey's not big down there. It's huge in other parts of the nation.

What ESPN are you watching? More like "now there is more time for the Budweiser Hot Seat on ESPN."

Dude, I hate your Nucks, but as a fellow hockey fan, I mourn with you today. I saw a few guys wearing Avs sweaters today with black bands around their arms. This blows. Nothing better than a Saturday afternoon with an Avs playoff win followed by a Nugs playoff win that night. Sigh.....

 

Well, looks like the CBA for NBA is coming up at the end of this year...

Steve Nash urges NHLPA to be resilient

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/article.jsp?content=20050215_084814_6064

The NBA's CBA will expire on Oct. 1.

Sportsnet.ca -- Steve Nash has urged the NHLPA to stay strong on their stance against a salary cap, the Windsor Star is reporting.

Seven seasons ago the NBA owners locked out their players for 191-days until the players eventually accepted a cap, and they've regretted it ever since.

"The owners got everything they wanted," Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash of Victoria, B.C., said. "Now they want more."

The NBA's collective bargaining agreement brought about the first salary cap in any one of the major North American sports. Their CBA expires on Oct. 1 and it's looking like the NBA could join the NHL on the sidelines, should the NHL not be able to reach an agreement on a new CBA by then.

"It's looking pretty dismal now," Nash said.

The NBA players believe if both leagues are locked-out they could possibly work hand-in-hand. Six of the NHL owners also own NBA teams and 14 NHL and NBA teams share a building. Should the two leagues combine and force some of the buildings to shut down, it might force a few owners to step back from their demands.

"Something like that might work," Nash said. "But hopefully, it won't come to that and we can settle."

 

Yeah, poor Nash. The NBA players can't make a decent living anymore.

 

Hockey seems so boring to me, probably b/c I wasn't raised on it, but it just seems like the guys go around skating, hitting a puck and accomplishing very little the whole time.

Sorta soccer like in that respect.

You can only come 'so close to scoring' so many times before it's like, meh, what else is on?

 

Well done, my fellow Canucklehead.

 

This is just a horrible day for the sport. I wonder how long it will be before we can have a good old fashioned Vancouver-Colorado bloodbath. And I hate to say it, but today the NHL deserves every bit of venom being thrown its way.

 

hasn't the nba had a cap for a long time? going back to like the late 80s or something?


in the nba, owners get a cap, players get guaranteed contracts. i think the nba cba is great. they better not screw around with it too much. i would say only the best of the best get limited by a cap (a guy like duncan could get more than the current max) but everyone else makes a healthy chunk of change and the cap and limit on % of BRI for the players makes sure the game is economically healthy. doesn't seem like either side has it bad.

 

I could care less.

 

thank ya Manny.

 

My dad's from Detroit, so I'm a pretty big Wings fan...I'll definitely miss hockey. Regardless of who you are you have to admit that hockey has the best playoffs in all of sports.

 

no doubt...

what other sports does Canada follow? It's like the NFL putting an axe on a season

America would be in an outcry