The camps have run into time and there is no longer reminiscent of the industrial dispute that blighted half of last season. Absolutely nothing. This fall is through broadcasting rights clear, so the Finnish hockey audience may be involved from the start of the season.
club owners cheated the fans of half a season to enforce a stricter salary cap and restrictions on spelarkontraktens length. Then someone could be fooled into thinking that the economically hard-pressed club owners would keep hard on the wallets this summer.
Anything but that. To date, the club owners spent $ 1.5 billion on new playing contract then transfer season started in July. Among the jewels include David Clarkson’s seven-year contract with Toronto, which is worth $ 36.75 million, or why not Valtteri Filppulas five-year contract with Tampa Bay, giving him $ 25 million. It is no exaggeration to say that they have a lot to live up to.
The figure above is not even including contracts signed before the summer, as Ryan and Corey Perry Getzlafs giant contract with Anaheim. Both get around eight million dollars per year for eight years.
why we had a lockout at all? Say it. For club owners behave like children kids and let it cost what it wants to outdo the competition. Which is at least curious, given that the majority of club owners are clever businessmen who made a fortune in business. The new collective bargaining agreement was a desperate attempt by the club’s owners to put safety locks for their own gluttony. But just as the last lockout and then introduced the salary cap could prevent club owners from bankrupting themselves in the hunt for the Stanley Cup, the new labor agreement make it.
So enjoy hockey when the season starts rotating. If history teaches us anything it is that the probability is very high that it will be a new labor dispute when the current collective bargaining agreement expires in 2022. Until then – game on!
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