Flyers Season thread

[rjs246]

MURP still thinks Iginla "has a really nice tan"...

Black canadian hockey players... what will they think of next?

[Rome]

MURP still thinks Iginla "has a really nice tan"...

Black canadian hockey players... what will they think of next?

Heterosexual women golfers?

[rjs246]

MURP still thinks Iginla "has a really nice tan"...

Black canadian hockey players... what will they think of next?

Heterosexual women golfers?

Anal bleaching?

[BigEd76]

Japanese football players

[General_Failure]

A decent cable network for sports coverage?

[mcnabbmvp]

Japanese football players

already done deal

http://www.minorleaguenews.com/football/af2/features/articles2004/052504.html

[General_Failure]

Arena League 2 doesn't count.

[Wingspan]

A decent cable network for sports coverage?

you know as well as i that that has absolutley no chance of ever happening.

[General_Failure]

A man can dream, though. A man can dream .... zzzz ...

[PhillyGirl]

Burns no longer coaching the Devils

[PhillyGirl]

Looks like the NHL is back, everyone...PC should be held on Wednesday (after the MLB All-Star game):

Settlement is expected to come by Wednesday

By ED MORAN

morane@phillynews.com

Negotiations between the NHL and the players union continued through the weekend in an effort to bring the 298-day lockout to an end and ensure there will be a hockey season beginning in the fall.

According to several reports through last week, the details of a 6-year deal have been agreed upon and attorneys from both the league and NHLPA are going over the document to be sure it is exactly the way they want it. An announcement that an agreement has been reached could come as early as this morning, but it is more likely to happen Wednesday, sources have said.

According to some sources, the league wants to hold off until Wednesday when the baseball All-Star Game is completed and before MLB play resumes.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has called an executive committee meeting for today in New York so league officials have an opportunity to examine the deal.

Some of the details of the deal have been reported. Some of the more important points include:

• A team salary cap next season between $37 million and $39 million, with a minimum of between $21 million and $24 million.

• Player salaries leaguewide must be capped at 54 percent of revenues. The cap will be based on revenue projections, with a projection for next season of between $1.7 billion and $1.8 billion, down from the $2.1 billion in 2003-04. In following years, the cap will be set by the previous year's revenues, moving the cap up or down depending on revenue growth.

• All existing player contracts will be rolled back 24 percent, including all qualifying offers this summer for restricted free agents. No player can earn more than 20 percent of his team's salary cap.

• Players will deposit a yet-to-be determined percentage of their salaries into escrow at the start of the season. Either the teams or the players will get money back at the end of the season, when the season's revenue is determined.

The deal appears to contain everything the owners wanted from the start, and the players are beginning to criticize the union leadership. Last week, Los Angeles Kings center Sean Avery said that NHLPA boss Bob Goodenow "brainwashed" the membership.

During the weekend, Detroit goalie Manny Legace said Goodenow should have struck a deal that saved the season.

"We lost a season for no reason,'' Legace told the Associated Press. "We should've crumbled last September when the owners wanted a salary cap.

"It makes no sense what we ended up doing.''

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[rjs246]

It's about goddamned time. Can they play a game or two tonight so I don't have to watch the All-Star game?

[PhillyGirl]

It's about goddamned time. Can they play a game or two tonight so I don't have to watch the All-Star game?

I wish. I would like to see Comcast put on some of the playoffs from the Flyers' last season to watch. I'd love watching those Ottawa and Leaf games. Even some of the Tampa games.

Hockey is still months away but I am ready now too.

[General_Failure]

DAMNIT! We were so close to losing hockey forever. This sucks.

[rjs246]

DAMNIT! We were so close to losing hockey forever. This sucks.

Cram it with walnuts, ugly.