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NHL needs reality check
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NHL hockey commissioner Gary Bettman (MARY ALTAFFER / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVES)
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It's really too bad that the NHL fans couldn't organize a strike and give the players and owners a reality check.
Rolf Zimmer
Winnipeg
The NHL players and owners are obliging fans to pay ticket prices far beyond what they should, while they -- the owners and extremely overpaid hockey players -- divvy up the proceeds of their greed.
Joe Fan has to endure prices that only the very well off will be able to afford. I would think the fans may choose a movement to lock out both the owners and players. This is a cause many hockey fans should consider given the persistence of owners to mismanage and players to make unreal salary demands.
Ed Hailley
Winnipeg
Hockey players should get a lot of pay. Why? Let's face it, many players are lucky if they can stay at a high rate of pay for more than 10 years. Injuries can take someone out of the game permanently all too easily. Endorsements seldom last long after a player is no longer on the ice, assuming they are good enough to get them in the first place.
So what does someone who has had to retire after only a few years do for the rest of their life? If they manage to retain enough brains to do a different job, OK, but a number of these guys have brain damage, and once their ice time is gone, it can be hard to find or hold a job that pays anywhere close to what they were earning.
The owners and investors don't lose their ability to earn like that. They can be in the game for decades. So, heck yes, they should be paying for the talents they run through with such speed, with premium rates. Stop trying to bully these guys into taking the short end of the straw all the time.
Linda Ross-Mansfield
Winnipeg
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 18, 2012 A7
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