Let’s say you make an even $1 million in annual salary. The league wants (may want) you to take a pay cut, down to $750,000. You say no way. As a result, there is no 2012-13 season, so your salary in that year is zero. Eventually, a compromise is reached, where you only have...
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Attention, NHL Players: DO THE MATH
“They just want the money”
Have the players done their own math? Are they really willing to give up 50% of this year's salary in order to save 7% of that same salary over the next several (7? 8?) years. That's obviously a wash.
I guess I would be optimistic if I thought they had run the numbers and could...
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A kid in his mites jersey with some trophy
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Just a kid in his room, dreaming of the cup
Twitter / keeperofthecup: Drew Doughty back in his bedroom …
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Kid athletes, hockey parents, Gatorade, velcro, tap water and chocolate milk
It’s August. The Kings have nobody left to sign. The odds of the NHL season starting on time don’t seem very good. But most of the rest of the North American hockey world — by which I mean juniors, college and youth hockey — has already started their camps and practices, or (in the...
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Penner scores (NHL 13 preview/demo)
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Newspaper? What’s a newspaper?
This isn't a sports story but it may as well be.
Deadline.com: LA Times' Patrick Goldstein Writes Last Column
Longtime Los Angeles Times movie columnist Patrick Goldstein decided to take a buyout rather than work for the new leadership at the newspaper. “He felt there was no more future for him there. It was obvious since all the...
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“You’ll be dead by then.”
Super Hockey Mom | Adventures at the rink
This is what Red Chief said to me the other day after his second day of Hobey Hopeful Camp:
RC: Mom, I’m never going to make it to the NHL.
Me: Why do you say that, honey?
RC: Because I can’t tie my own skates.
Me: Honey,...
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Wayne Simmonds extends with Flyers, 6 years, approx. $4 million
Bob McKenzie reports that the Philadelphia Flyers signed physical winger Wayne Simmonds to a six-year contract extension worth “about” $4 million per season.
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