Slippery When Wet
The year was 1919, and all seemed right in the world. WW I had just ended in 1918 with a Allied Victory, the Treaty of Versailles had just been settled, and those mighty Boston Red Sox had just come off their 1918 World Series Victory. However there was one problem....A flu epidemic had spread throughout the world and causing havoc. The greatest
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Actually, they did, albeit at the eleventh hour. I'm upset that they did, too...they caved in at the end, and it got them nothing. Great negotiation skills, NHLPA!
"knowing that if you didn't have one the league would crumble because of lack of revenue, aka money"
The salary cap doesn't affect revenue at all...revenue is money the league takes in. How much money they take in has nothing to do with how much they pay out. It would affect their profit, though.
The owners have said that they cannot go any higher than $42.5mil for a cap (to, say, $45mil, which would split the difference with the players). But $42.5mil is a cap, i.e., a maximum amount--no one has to spend that much if they don't want. What the owners expect us to believe is that if the big spenders can afford one more league-average player than the regular joes, the whole league will go down the toilet ( ... )
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