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That was hilarious. Good article.

I personally believe that the owners and the players are both at blame for the cap escalating to this point. The league should lower the cap and the players should also be capped per position. Each position should be capped based on point production per position such as eg. 3-4 mil. for 60 pts; 5-6 mil. for 80 pts; 5-6mil. for 40 wins for a goalie. The league should make the exception for a franchise (1) player such as a 8-10 yr. contract and pay them 5-9 mil. The rest of the players should have no longer than a 5 yr. contract. The teams could add in extra bonuses for higher goals scored and more wins. ELC should not exceed more than 5yrs so if the player is a flop( Alexander Daigle) the team wouldn’t be stuck with a big contract and would also allow a young player that excels in his first 3-4 yrs to be rewarded after his ELC, not after 10 yrs that the league wants. This I believe would stop the owners from lopsiding the talent from team to team and overpaying players and also stop players from greed working teams back and forth to maximise their bank accts.

Duke69: I like the sentiment but believe this is too rigid. 

This articles sums up a lot of what I feel:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/nhl-ownership-stance-appears-off-balance/article4599997/

No answers for these questions.

Us fans will keep getting exposed to these ridiculous lockouts every 6-7 yrs if somebody doesn’t come up with a reasonable solution. This is my opinion of a reasonable solution so it can stop the greed of the players and the stupidity of the owners eg. 10-12 yr contracts. We as fans are the ones paying for these ridiculous salaries thru higher ticket prices and no hockey to watch. To your reply, NO IT’S NOT GARY, HAVE ANOTHER “ WISKI.”

I know, I was agreeing with @wiski1:disqus . 

Agree with a lot of that, even though I’m pretty staunchly pro owner.  I don’t really understand why we can’t talk seriously about contracting to 28 teams and fixing some of the real problems.  Hell, if they could organize a contraction by January, they could probably host a dispersal draft to re-energize the now highly annoyed fan base, and pick up a ton of steam heading into the Winter Classic.
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I still think though, that there are things we, and perhaps even the PA, don’t know about the Phoenix situation.  When Winnipeg was trying to pry the team away, we kept hearing rumors here about how the arena contract was iron clad, and backing out it would cost the league more than just paying for the team to lose.  Regardless, that still falls on ownership, but businesses of all kinds do make mistakes – this is a pretty standard way of dealing with it.  CEO’s don’t take pay cuts.

But CEO’s do get fired.

If you have to resort to 3 labour interruptions in 18 years you have officially failed at your job. Until they truly acknowledge their business plan is broken they can’t be trusted or taken seriously. They’re not looking for partners in the NHLPA, they’re looking for scapegoats.

The larger your national footprint as a league the larger your TV contract will be. Six team leagues don’t get 200M TV deals. That’s a simple fact of business. That was his plan all along…to grab a huge TV deal and not have teams relying on gate revenue to survive.

Unfortunately, not all of the Owners followed along. Throwing money hand-over-fist at players has thrown a monkey wrench in everything.

Well, that’s another thing.  The owners didn’t anticipate the ultimate result that the salary cap era yielded.  So when people say things like “they got their cap and now they’re still bitching”, well, great, but the cap didn’t achieve what they had hoped – in fact, it basically worked out better for the players.  And it’s a combination of factors that caused that – not just error on the part of the owners.  I don’t think it was a very predictable situation. 

Keep the Cap ceiling and floor a monetary amount instead of a percentage when expecting growth was a very predictable flaw.  

Cam: Agree with you. However, this is a Partnership of Owners with a Partnership model we are told that does not work. Thus one would expect the partners to fix it, and your position would be they should fix it anyway they want, they are the owners. I am in agreement. The issue to us would appear that they do not want to fix it, they want the players to subsidize their mistakes. It is at this point that as Sportsfans, we try to rationalize. It is at this point that I put my support behind the Players. They got slapped before and are getting slapped again. I don’t want to say this but it seems the way of the coal-mining industry. Miners forever losing.