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Originally Posted by Locke
Um. No.
The owners lose because they're not just keeping on keeping on. The enterprise that earns them money is halted.
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It is paused, the same way it is paused in the offseason. They still play the same number of games, sell the same number of available tickets and so on.
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No.
In the past the IIHF/IOC deal has been that the NHL takes a back-seat and lets their players go the Olympics.
Thats a terrible deal.
In reciprocation the IIHF/IOC pay the insurance premiums and travel costs for this favour in exchange for 'Growing the Game.'
This time the IIHF/IOC told the NHL to: Pay the insurance premiums, pay the travel and accommodation costs, halt the league schedule (that makes them money) and take the risks and in exchange they would get.....
What?
Yeah. I'd tell them to go to hell.
Then they changed their minds and went back to the original also terrible deal.
And the players cared about the Olympics so much that they used it as a bargaining chip during the CBA negotiations!
Wait...what? They didnt? Well then, it must not be all that important to them.
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The league offered an extension of the CBA with the players being able to participate at olympics, so the league can't be
that opposed to the deal with the IIHF(which I agree is terrible) or the "impact" the break it has on their season. It also clearly indicates that the league is well aware that participating at the Olympics is important to the players. Now the league doesn't want the players going and are using those same excuses, the real reason is they are trying to avoid making any concession to the PA in the next CBA.