i dont know how you can side with the owners. the market is set by the owners, not the players. if the owners didnt make stupid decisions with a number of huge contracts, then we wouldnt be in this situation today. if they showed any modicum of financial restraint, then they wouldnt need a salary cap at all.
think about it this way. if you have a job with company A, and company B is willing to pay you five times as much as you make today, why wouldnt you? even if you know that the decision you make to take the extra money is bad for the team that you sign with, you would be an idiot not to do so.
around new england the bruins and jeremy jacobs have been ridiculed because they are basically very cheap when it comes to signing players. now, they look like the smart ones, because they always ran their business with the purpose of making a profit, and they didnt make any of these ridiculous contracts that have shut the game down today.
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