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New CBA Hurts Canucks
by Paul on 09/29/05 at 11:37 AM ET
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The biggest challenge of the 45-year-old's business career is to provide value to Canucks fans, who spend the equivalent of a week's grocery budget for a pair of seats and expect much in return. They want players to work hard. They demand entertaining hockey. They expect the team to win and they want a Stanley Cup, which has eluded Vancouver since the Canucks joined the NHL in 1970 and Aquilini took on Imperial Parking soon after. And the fans aren't much interested what it might cost the Canucks' new co-owner to provide all this. They should be, because Aquilini insists the team faces far tougher economics under the NHL's new Collective Bargaining Agreement than it did under the old one. "The perception is, we're rolling in dough," Aquilini says. "It's actually the opposite. Financially, we're behind '03-04 because of the new CBA. It actually hurts us. It has made significant impact on us, but we're trying to cope."
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