For two days, the players and the owners have set aside their differences and actually made some progress towards saving what may come to be an abject failure at negotiations, but they gave me a glint of hope and wonder and I'm clinging to it like mold...on...bread. It's been 81 grueling days. Give me a break. Speaking of 81, that's close to 82 which is the number of games we will not be having this season.
Word on the street is that the threshold is 60 games for the NHL to get 100% of revenues from their sponsors, but 60 games would be a little heavy for the players and a hard schedule to maintain and plan at this juncture. In the literature I've read, 56 games seems like the likely choice. It will certainly compress things and make for a Usain Bolt paced run for the Stanley Cup playoffs, but this lack of hockey is really starting to ruin my winter schedule. I'm forced to find actual productive things to do with my free time. I was made aware of a little cretin named Honey Boo Boo, an act which would not have occurred if hockey had existed and arguably, the players can take care of on their return.
Hopefully the players aren't caving in too harshly, but just enough so we can some of the ice sport before year's end.
Word on the street is that the threshold is 60 games for the NHL to get 100% of revenues from their sponsors, but 60 games would be a little heavy for the players and a hard schedule to maintain and plan at this juncture. In the literature I've read, 56 games seems like the likely choice. It will certainly compress things and make for a Usain Bolt paced run for the Stanley Cup playoffs, but this lack of hockey is really starting to ruin my winter schedule. I'm forced to find actual productive things to do with my free time. I was made aware of a little cretin named Honey Boo Boo, an act which would not have occurred if hockey had existed and arguably, the players can take care of on their return.
Hopefully the players aren't caving in too harshly, but just enough so we can some of the ice sport before year's end.
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