If the Edmonton Oilers' players had any moral fibre, they'd have quit en masse years ago.
You'd be amazed at the difference between earning a few hundred bucks a week and living in a billet compared to earning $6M a year. Granted, they do have to live in Edmonton so they've got that going against them.
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You'd be amazed at the difference between earning a few hundred bucks a week and living in a billet compared to earning $6M a year. Granted, they do have to live in Edmonton so they've got that going against them.
Edmonton versus Flint is basically a coin toss
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I had no idea the Plymouth Whalers moved to Flint either. They fired the coaches because the owner's son wasn't getting enough playing time?? That's just bush league
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How many people wish they could just get up and say 'I quit'! at some point in their lives. Pretty interesting it happened in a professional league. When I did it years and years ago, nobody cared :-)
Normally people would be too bitter to come back after they have been fired. The coach wanted to comeback to help the players more than himself
Reminds me of when the Leafs were entertaining.
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The following year it was the eventual Cup winning Boston Bruins who ended the Leafs 1971-72 season in the first round. But, for all their success and promise on the ice, things were starting to unravel off the ice. Leafs president Stafford Smythe and vice president Harold Ballard were arrested and charged for tax evasion. Smythe never made it to trial having died in October of 1972, but Harold Ballard was convicted and spent a year in Milhaven Penitentiary. Ballard ran the team from his jail cell having acquired majority ownership after his partner’s death. With Ballard in charge now, the historic Maple Leaf franchise - Canada’s team, made famous by Foster Hewitt, and the winner of 11 Stanley Cups - was on the road to ruin.
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Although the Leafs on the ice were a close-knit and talented team led by captain Darryl Sittler, the off-ice escapades of owner Harold Ballard unfortunately continued. Late in the 1978-79 season, Ballard fired Roger Neilson then reinstated him a few days later when the players appealed to Ballard, who also could not find a replacement coach. Fortunately, Roger Neilson declined ‘Pal Hal’s’ suggestion of wearing a paper bag over his head when he returned to coach after he was rehired.
Wow, what a crazy story. Count me in the group that didn't know the Whalers moved to Flint and first thought this was a minor league semi pro team. Good on the OHL to stamp out the owner stupidity right away.
Also, what a turn of events for the coach. From fired to getting a 3 year contract the next day. The Billy Martin of Junior Hockey haha.
Makes me wonder, would the same scenario be possible in a NHL team and how it would unfold?
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Makes me wonder, would the same scenario be possible in a NHL team and how it would unfold?
The players are all part of a union, so the entire union would have to strike (aka all 700+ players). One team of players doesn't have the right to do so.
I suppose though if the working conditions became "unbearable" for those poor millionaire hockey players, each player could individually retire from his contract to be removed from the team. However, said team would still have his rights retained (depending on players age) should they want to be reinstated to the NHL. I guess if they had a racist ass owner they could all retire until a new owner is established (Sterling case) and then come back.
The Lethbridge Hurricanes were inches away from being sold and relocated to Winnipeg two years ago. They've recovered since, but the community ownership model out there has pretty much been a disaster.
The fans have been asking for years for a sale to private ownership, but the Board of Governers didn't formally approach the topic until it was brought up at an Annual General Meeting in 2014 or maybe a special AGM in early 2015, that it be voted upon to put the team for sale. At that meeting this past summer there was not enough votes in favour of selling the team and that put any potential sale to bed. They needed a rather high amount of votes in favour of seeking a sale, and while majority of shareholders voted in favour of seeking a sale, they did not meet the threshold. Even if that motion was passed, they would still have to vote to actually sell the team should a potential buyer step forward.
