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Well, he did say that but that's the message I got from what he said today

http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=128530

6/21/2005 4:53:14 PM

PRAGUE (AP) - New York Rangers forward Jaromir Jagr said Tuesday that the players' refusal of a salary cap in talks with the NHL was a mistake.

"We started the fight because we didn't agree with the introduction of salary caps," Jagr said.

"Now, we'll be happy to get them. We didn't expect the owners to be so tough and persistent. It was a risk that didn't pay off."

Jagr was quoted, in Czech, on the Czech Ice Hockey Association's website.

The NHL and the NHL Players' Association recently agreed that a salary cap model with an upper and lower limit will be the centrepiece of a new agreement. A deal should be announced in the next two weeks or so.



The lockout started last September and wiped out the entire 2004-05 NHL season.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Idiots......Fucking deadline hunter bob goodenow.

 

[Shinobi]

He's on point...publically refusing to accept the salary cap in anyway, shape or form years before the negotiating began (think Goodenow first went public with this stance back in 1998) was a stupid, ridiculous and absolutely unneccessary tatical mistake. All that stance did was leave the PA with no wiggle room to play with, and no possible way to save face should their hand be forced...which it obviously was. And once that hand was forced, the PA was basically left with zero leverage. Just a stupid decision on Goodenow's part (nevermind the amount of lost money he's cost the players), and it'll cost him his job once a new deal is signed.