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Maple Leafs · 10-03-2003, 08:54 AM

I love hockey, but I want to see a work stoppage. A long one. It's the only way we're going to see real change to a system that's horribly broken.

The NHL sucks right now. Not all of that is because of the off-ice stuff, of course, but that's part of it. I'm willing to go without hockey for a year if it means they fix this once and for all.

Institute a salary cap. The NFL and NBA have one. Baseball at least has a luxury tax. There's no reason why the NHL, by far the least successful of the big four, should be the only league without anything. Find a system that allows the mid-markets to compete. Let the small markets go out of business. There's not enough talent out there for 30 teams anyways.

Just don't take the easy way out. Get it done, no matter how painful.

10-03-2003, 08:54 AM	#1734
Maple Leafs Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002	I love hockey, but I want to see a work stoppage. A long one. It's the only way we're going to see real change to a system that's horribly broken. The NHL sucks right now. Not all of that is because of the off-ice stuff, of course, but that's part of it. I'm willing to go without hockey for a year if it means they fix this once and for all. Institute a salary cap. The NFL and NBA have one. Baseball at least has a luxury tax. There's no reason why the NHL, by far the least successful of the big four, should be the only league without anything. Find a system that allows the mid-markets to compete. Let the small markets go out of business. There's not enough talent out there for 30 teams anyways. Just don't take the easy way out. Get it done, no matter how painful.