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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
In 1999, the Major League Umpires' Association had a beef with MLB and voted to strike. Except they had a valid CBA, so couldn't do so legally. The person in charge of the union had a brilliant idea. The union members would resign en-masse and basically force MLB into new negotiations. Instead, MLB simply accepted the resignations of 22 umpires and hired replacements from the minor leagues. Years of legal fighting followed. Some got their jobs back. Many did not. The union decertified and was replaced by another with new leadership.
Watching Glendale act is reminding me of this. They are trying to be clever in an effort to get out of a contract, but I don't think the NHL is going to go into this thinking "crap, too late to relocate. Guess we have to deal." We're talking about a league that was willing to go nuclear against it's players' union.
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Exactly!
The only thing that makes the Coyotes a viable enterprise is the fact that their losses are underwritten, if that changes then so does the whole profitability model in which case the Coyotes suddenly become losers.
Effectively the City of Glendale wants to renege on their contractual liability to underwrite the losses of the Coyotes thus transferring that liability elsewhere and elsewhere is profit-sharing payments from the rest of the owners of the NHL and that is a hill that the League will die on and fast-track a relocation.
If the Coyotes become a burden to other 29 teams because all of a sudden the 'insurance' against their losses has to come from the other owners their relocation approval will be the fastest vote in NHL history.
In which case the City of Glendale is going to wind up sitting there empty-handed.