52 Replies to “Give Generously”

  1. But, if it saves just one NHL player,,,
    Or worse,
    Criminal careers in Vegas, or worse yet,
    Drug rehab!
    Oh the humanity!!!!!!!!
    FTA and Bettman too.

  4. We tend to forget.
    Dental implant surgery cost almost $4,000 dollars per tooth.
    32 teeth x $4,000 = $128,000 dollars.
    I feel so sorry for these young men having to pay part of their sign up bonuses in order to fix their teeth.
    These are Hard Times,
    terrible recession and physical limitations..

  5. That is just perfect! I’ve reached the point now that I just don’t give a sh*t. And I don’t think I’m alone.

  7. That was funny,and I’m not a hockey fan.
    The vast majority of hockey players are cutting their noses off here. I was listening to the radio the other day and the guy talking about the strike said that after the last strike 200 players who had contracts never played another game. He also said that the average NHL career is 4 seasons, so loosing one season is loosing 25 percent of their lifetime NHL earnings. He also said that there are about a dozen teams that may fold if they loose a season. Overall a really stupid thing to do by both sides.

  9. Please send 25 dollars /in care of the NHL to that poor bastard living in that clapboard shack..

  10. Too bad Betteman and the owners never studied what happened to Major League Baseball after their strike in the 90’s. What was once America’s past time stumbled and has never recovered what it lost. The NFL and NASCAR were able to aggressively seek what are discretionary spending dollars from a limited fan base. Here in Canada we have perhaps more limited competition to hockey, partly due to the seasonality of the sport. Nonetheless, the longer this drag on the more those on time rabid fans will realize they can live life without spending hundreds of dollars on their team. Adverstising dollars and the cost of those expensive box seats will be spent elsewhere. There is a possibility the NHL may likewise stumble and the fans realize that they are just pawns. Read the book ‘Why the Leafs Suck’ for some illumination. This is from one who is consistently becoming a former Leaf fan. I miss Don Cherry. Sigh

  12. I would find this funnier if it wasn’t John “Global Warming is settled Science” Moore from CFRB in Toronto doing the voice over.

  13. The players are getting very bad advice. They have no leverage. The owners could fire the top 100 players in the league and dummy fans would line up for tickets the next day.
    A fan boycott of at least the first game when this is over and a year or more with out buying any merch. But that will never happen, too many fans are fools.

  14. That’s too funny. My morning giggle. Stopped caring about the NHL after the last strike. Support your local junior hockey team. They really need your support and are having FUN playing a GAME.

  15. No hockey, and I can’t find lacrosse on the TV, so I’ve taken to watching volleyball. Unfortunately the only games I can find are college womens’. (sigh) it’s just not the same when sitting back with a cold glass of wobbly-pop, but it’ll have to do I suppose.

  18. I’ve heard a rumor that in the U.S.,when the NHL lockout is over,they are going to allow food stamps to be used for buying game tickets.
    This is a great idea! Better than spending them on organic lettuce and free run ducks.
    And for BC hockey fans, at least this year we don’t have to watch the 7 million dollar per season goaltender blow ANOTHER playoff series.
    Support Junior hockey,way more exciting than watching the millionaires.

  20. Firstly, I’m not a hockey fan (my favourite team is the one that just filed for bankruptcy), so I couldn’t care less about eh owners or the players. I do, however, have to feel somewhat sorry for the poor sods who run restuarants and bars close to arenas, and the guys who work in the related stores. Those poor bu**ers are being put out of work by the greed of these two groups.

  21. This is a classic union vs management fight which borders on ridiculous. Millionaire players vs billionaire owners. The fact that over half the NHL players are Canadian makes me realize that there should be no surprise that the dispute is couched in this way. Even with a so called conservative government the vast majority of Canadians are left of center.
    NHL players have no negociating strength and you would have thought the 2004 settlement would have taught them that. Their relationship strategy with the owners should have been revamped to a collegial approach. The focus should have been making the pie bigger rather than thinking they could shave some extra points off. Player solidarity will collapse simply because their careers will never recover their lost wages.

  22. Major benefit of hockey strike: The incidence of assault and unsportsmanlike conduct in professional sport has decreased approximately 90%.

  23. One of the things I love about Canadian Football is that we care about it, some of us passionately, but we keep it in perspective. At the Grey Cup this Sunday, there is only one player that makes as much as a doctor; most of the players make about as much as a full-salaried teacher –and that’s about right.
    The NHL lockout? Should we really care about a bunch billionaires being heavy-handed with a bunch of millionaires (who apparently can’t do math?) Thanks, but no thanks.

  24. Which owner was it that said, “I run my team like I run my ranch, and I don’t let the cows tell me how to run my ranch” or something like that? My high up connection in Toronto finance told me Sept 1 at a wedding, that there would be no season, I said surely they would work it out by Oct., he is looking like he knew something, and wasn’t mad for calling him surly either. They can stuff their pro hockey, the Hitmen have given me lots of great games and overtimes, the Flames not so much.

  25. Whoa! I’m a former Canucks fan from before the time the billionaires started fighting with the millionaires.
    There are more important things in life …… like where to I go now to riot?

  26. I understand the humour of the video but in effect, how is its logic any different from the OWS crowd. We live in a society where some people have more money than others. Is that a bug or a feature?

  27. Whoa! I’m a former Canaucks fan from the days before the billionaires started fighting with the millionaires.
    There are more important things in life ……. like where do I go now to burn cars, smash windows and steal stuff?
    Not fair!

  28. I haven’t watched hockey in 10 years… since I first picked up a lacrosse stick at the tender age of 42. Compared to lax, hockey is painfully boring.
    C_Miner, you can get all the NLL games over the internet for free. However, the NLL season doesn’t start till January. When the WLL season is on, you can get those games on the web but their PPV.

  30. Sports religion stuff is boring. Who won the Cup ten years ago and what difference does it make?…

  32. Funniest and truest comment I heard the other day from an ex-pro. The collective bargaining agreement ISN’T for the players. It’s to protect the owners from themselves! Think about it, the 1st thing the owners will do before the ink is dry is a way to get around the agreement. That’s the owners doing that, not the players. In all of this, remember one thing we the fan are just as stupid. We pay to watch them and there’s a solution for that too…

  33. “I understand the humour of the video but in effect, how is its logic any different from the OWS crowd.”
    Well exactly. In his day Babe Ruth made more than the US president; so what. Now if we were to talk about the workers(the players) demanding 1/2 the revenue stream that would be a whole nother kettle of fish.

  34. Brilliant!
    I quite watching professional sports decades ago, there’s nothing else quite like wasting your time and money watching a bunch of whiny millionaires on skates shooting a puck or punting a ball around.
    Not that anyone of them is from your home town, or even country and they’ll drop their current fans for the other side at the drop of a hat, or more money, or a better state/ provincial tax rate.

  35. The owners have decided (like the previous owners of the Pittsburgh Penguins) NO MORE Mario Lemieuxs.
    It’s do or die time…
    This could yet, still get ugly.
    JMHO

  36. Peter Pocklington had the right idea, get in when the goings good.
    Sell the great-one to the highest bidder, then sell the franchise.
    Too bad the great-ones buyer wasn’t as savey, got himself arrested, went broke, died too young.

  37. With a bit of luck this ends up like the Hostess negotiations and both the players and owners lose.
    There is more than enough good junior hockey in Canada for a real hockey fan, NOBODY needs the greedy NHL prima-donnas, and the rip-off owners.

  38. Well, in this war, the first casualty might be the CBC.
    I can’t even tell you what this is — a strike or a lockout. I do feel, however, that the old Nixon/Kissinger through to Bill Clinton Cold War condominium/strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction is playing out before our very eyes.
    Channeling John Bolton a bit, I guess, a great potential benefit of the strike/lockout is that we are going to see what the CBC looks like financially in a post-HNIC world.
    WRT to the Brian Lilley piece to which the boss lady referred yesterday, the only reason the CBC would not agree to full public disclosure would be that the news is all very bad. Suggested title: “Hide the Decline”.

  39. According to Forbes, only 12 of 30 NHL teams makes a profit and six of those are based in Canada.
    Anybody ready for a 12-team NHL?

  41. “Well, in this war, the first casualty might be the CBC. ”
    Damn! Will someone here start a charitable fund for Evan Solomon,Rick Mercer,George Strombolopoulous, Amanda Lang,and the rest of that National Treasure?
    Anyone?

  42. If you like hockey. Go to Junior games. The players are hungry, & young. They like to play a hard game. Its cheap at the cost to watch. Someone could make some money putting them on TV this year replacing the NHL, for those who love the game

  44. We’re thinking of giving up sponsoring our “Compassion children” and taking on two of these poor, poor souls.
    Oh dear, my tears damaged my keyboarddddddd.

  46. NHL?–spit
    The day NHL HQ was moved to NYC signaled the end and good riddance. Bring back the WHA!
    Bettman is strictly a businessman and a game, any game, needs MORE than just that. Wayne would make a great commish.

  48. Funny how much venom is being hurled at the ‘millionaires’ and the ‘billionaires’.
    And the agents remain totally unscathed! They slither around the backrooms comparing notes with one another regarding their ‘clients’ – sharing information during negotiations that the owners must not be party to until long after the contracts are signed. Agents are for the most part nameless and faceless. They stand back while the owners and the players bloody each other and remain totally unscathed when the fans hurl insults and threats at both the players and the owners. They know that once the dust settles it will be business as usual. They should bear much of the responsibility. But they won’t.

  49. “In all of this, remember one thing we the fan are just as stupid.”
    ~the bear
    A truer sentiment was never expressed.
    Sports fans(all entertainment fanatics) are schtoopid.
    Bread…and…circuses, citzen.
    When are we going to say ENOUGH of the sleight of hand and misdirection?
    The politicians use *our taxes to pay for these ridiculously expensive venues plus their upkeep just to keep the schub’s tiny minds occupied with something other than how badly we’re all being governed and every level of government is in deep debt, debt that is co-signed in your’s and my name.
    *(mine too and I don’t even watch any of this shit, I get to pay for your entertainment habits/choices too)

  50. You know, there’s a few folks jumping off bridges and claiming to be so mad that they’ll never go to another NHL game, etc., etc. But I don’t think most people feel that way. The sports media are apoplectic about the lockout, but most fans are resigned to waiting out the stupidity. I’ve found other things to do besides watch NHL hockey. When it eventually comes back, I’ll watch some, but probably not as much as before, because I’ve got other things on the go now that filled the void.
    The self-importance, the hubris even, of the NHL will see it discover that in a competitive entertainment environment, the other options didn’t cease to exist when they took a hiatus.

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