from Peter Keating of ESPN The Magazine (paid subscription),

The owners have offered to bump revenue sharing by about $50 million a year, but that's nothing. So here's a modest proposal: For every dollar the players give back to the owners in a new labor agreement, the owners should increase revenue sharing by $1. That means if the players' share declines from 57 percent of $3.3 billion to 50 percent, then the revenue-sharing pot should increase by the difference, or $231 million. The players then would know they are contributing to the stability and growth of the league. And small-market owners would get the support they need.

Just giving the owners more money to paper over the losses of their sorriest brethren won't fix hockey's underlying problem -- and will simply embolden them to ask for even more the next time.

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