2012-13 NHL and Other Hockey Thread [2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs]

[Sticksboi05]

Well, let's be real, this NHL season is at least going to be cut short. Pathetic? Yes. Stupid, unbelievably but it is what it is.

On a good note, the NHL is not the only source of hockey for us fans of the sport and not just the Capitals.

[ixcuincle]

The second they lock out, I get NHL 13.

[MLSKINS]

smh at the "?". They are idiots. You barely survived one lockout, so the best thing to do is to do it again. Them greedy bammas

I am going to get NHL 13, but not right now.

[Heidenreich]

I will buy NHL 13 on Sunday. Unless there is a lockout, then I am done with hockey. Never again.

The owners got EXACTLY what they wanted 7 years ago. Shut the league down for cost certainty. Now thats not good enough? **** all of them.

Hockey has 9 fans as it is. The reason they think they can do this is because all 9 always come back. Not this time......

[Buford]

All Hail King Bettman. Commish during a few lockouts......Commish who felt it was more important keeping a hockey team in the desert over bringing one back to Canada. Commish who had no problem overturning the rules to unsuspend a player during the finals.

[endzone_dave]

I'll take the less popular opinion. The NHL built up a salary structure that paid the players the same as the other major sports but hockey is a niche sport that can fill most arenas but has TERRIBLE tv ratings. It doesn't generate in tv revenue anywhere near what the other major sports generate. The players might be a little out of touch with what they are worth. Jeff Schultz makes $3M per year in a sport whose finals tv ratings can't beat a typical NASCAR race. It just seems out-of-whack.

[DCranon21]

Can't believe there is about to be another lockout in the NHL. Did they not learn from the last one, and how it crippled them?

[Sticksboi05]

Luckily, NCAA hockey does not have a CBA

Bring on the season! There's a bunch of games on NBC Sports Network this year.

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Fri., Oct. 12 Notre Dame vs. #12 Maine 7 p.m.
Army vs. Nebraska-Omaha TBD
Sat., Oct. 13 Final (Teams TBD) 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 16 Harvard at #13 Cornell 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 30 #1 Boston College at #11 Boston University 7:30 p.m.
Wisconsin at #8 Denver 10 p.m.

Dec. 1 #11 Boston University at #1 Boston College 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 7 Michigan State at Notre Dame 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 4 Colorado College at Nebraska-Omaha 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 11 #3 Union at Princeton 7:30 p.m.
Nebraska-Omaha at Denver 10 p.m.

Jan. 18 Harvard at Yale 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 25 Yale at #13 Cornell 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 1 Dartmouth at #3 Union 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 8 #6 North Dakota at Nebraska-Omaha 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 15 #11 Boston University at #12 Maine 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 22 Yale at Quinnipiac 7:30 p.m.
#6 North Dakota at #8 Denver 10 p.m.

March 1 Wisconsin at Nebraska-Omaha 7:30 p.m.

March 8 #12 Maine at New Hampshire 7:30 p.m.

Hockey East Tournament

March 15 Quarterfinals 7 p.m.
March 22 Semifinals 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. (@ TD Garden – Boston, MA)
March 23 Final 7 p.m. (@ TD Garden – Boston, MA

[endzone_dave]

Luckily, NCAA hockey does not have a CBA

Bring on the season! There's a bunch of games on NBC Sports Network this year.

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Boo, no Clarkson U. on that list.

[FanboyOf91]

Back into the shadows!

[Sticksboi05]

Boo, no Clarkson U. on that list.

Maybe they'll be on the CBS College sports schedule?

[Heidenreich]

I'll take the less popular opinion. The NHL built up a salary structure that paid the players the same as the other major sports but hockey is a niche sport that can fill most arenas but has TERRIBLE tv ratings. It doesn't generate in tv revenue anywhere near what the other major sports generate. The players might be a little out of touch with what they are worth. Jeff Schultz makes $3M per year in a sport whose finals tv ratings can't beat a typical NASCAR race. It just seems out-of-whack.

that is what the lockout in 2005 was for. The salaries were totally out of whack. They made a salary cap system that linked players salaries to league revenues. The first year the salary cap was around 40 million dollars. This year? It's 70.2 million. Hockey revenues have gone up dramatically since the last lockout. The only issue now is that the owners don't want to pay that percentage anymore. The system that was everything they wanted 7 years ago isn't good enough anymore.

Can't believe there is about to be another lockout in the NHL. Did they not learn from the last one, and how it crippled them?

That's the thing, it DIDNT cripple them. It should have, but it didn't. And thats why they are ready to do it all over again......

[ixcuincle]

It's official. The NHL has locked out.








*Gets NHL 13 to replace regular season hockey*

[BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93]

everyone was doomed as soon as Fehr joined the fray

---------- Post added September-16th-2012 at 12:05 AM ----------

well...at least we don't have to disappointed by the Caps this year lol

[BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93]

but the idea of a shortened season isn't a bad one if we start out hot