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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
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.
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What did I exclude? Do you mean all of the strikes and lockouts that resulted in 0 games missed, or all of the ones that happened before 1988? Ignoring 'data' from before half the people on this board were born is not cherrypicking. Maybe you should go to the E=NG thread and remind everyone how many cups Edmonton won in the 80's.
I don't really give two craps whether they play or not. I think ideal season length is 70 games anyways. For me it's just laughable that they manage to squabble over the smallest of the pies, provide a decreasingly entertaining product, and continue to try to hold taxpayers hostage to build them arenas.