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Originally Posted by Bingo
There are two arguments here.
One is that the owners are wrong, the other that it doesn't matter.
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You’ll have to forgive some of us for not agreeing with your position that breaking the law doesn’t matter because...wait why are you saying that doesn’t matter?
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I think two of you keep bringing the first one up to people that honestly don't care.
I would agree that owners screwed up ... it was either a bad assumption as that article states that they estimated they'd have some fans in the seats. Or they didn't and had a bad model, or misjudged the financial health of some of their teams.
But the bottom line is the numbers don't add up so they have to go back to the players.
Pretty simple isn't it?
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No it’s really not that simple because your entire argument is based on the assumption that the league is stupid enough to make this kind of mistake, not hold anyone within their organization accountable for that despite the huge financial liability it would have created if their position were credible, and that the additional ~6% in revenue they are looking to gain somehow outweighs the risk and associated costs of litigation from the PA in the event the league did cancel the season.
I would find the league’s position far more credible if they took a different approach to resolving the matter, but their take it or leave it approach without offering anything back to the PA in exchange for doing the league a HUGE favour is a joke and reflects very poorly on the NHL and its owners.