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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
The NHL is in a league of it's own - baseball at least demonstrated the ability to learn from it's mutually assured destruction 24 years ago.
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The NHL is only in "a league of its own" if you cherry pick data and arbitrarily exclude strikes and lockouts, yes.
Also, as far as baseball learning goes, wait until the next CBA is up. Like I said, Don Fehr was happy and prepared to throw hundreds of millions of dollars of his players's away to cancel another World Series. It was the players themselves that stepped off the ledge and overruled him. The NHLPA right now is still listening to him. And, the price they have paid for their labour peace has been continually sliding wages, relative to revenue. The MLBPA right now is in a rather odd spot where weak leadership resulted in a weak CBA for the players, then a post facto attempt to force changes via lawsuit. Early signs point to a significant labour battle when their CBA next comes up.