from Stu Hackel of the Red Light,

The point here is that the owner’s portrayal of the NHL’s economic landscape is more complicated than the picture some like to paint of it. They want the players to make sacrifices in the next CBA to correct flaws from the last one, but in a good number of instances, the fiscal problems some teams have experienced have little to do with the way the old CBA worked. In some very significant cases, it comes down to the owners hoping they can force someone else to repair their own train wrecks and they seem to be willing to sacrifice a season or more to accomplish that.

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