By the time of his retirement in , the time First Team All-Star had become the career leader in regular and postseason games-played 1, for a single team Detroit. The Devils netminder was at the peak of his game by time of the lockout. A two-time Stanley-Cup winner, and Olympic gold medalist in , Seabrook has also developed a penchant for scoring big goals. In , he tallied the overtime winner against Detroit in the Western Conference semi-finals and three weeks later scored another OT winner to beat Boston in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final.
After winning an NCAA championship at the University of Minnesota, Vanek joined the Sabres for and went on to produce seven straight seasons of 25 goals or more, including a pair of tally campaigns.
The cocky Habs defenseman has become one of the most dynamic and entertaining players in the NHL. Subban won the Norris Trophy in , and produced 14 points in 17 playoff games the following season while leading the Canadiens to an upset victory against archrival Boston and a berth in the Eastern Conference Finals. The first pick in the draft was regarded as one of the finest prospects since Sidney Crosby.
Named captain of the Islanders at age 22, he was a finalist for the Hart Trophy in A relentless worker, his impressive game is still evolving and improving. John W. Perry also won two gold medals playing for Canada at the and Olympics. Suter entered the NHL with Nashville the season after the lockout and instantly emerged as an outstanding, mobile two-way defenseman. His uncle Gary, was a two-time Olympian, and his late father, Bob, was a member of the famed Miracle on Ice team that won gold at the Lake Placid Games in In , he signed a year contract with his hometown Minnesota Wild.
He also bagged Olympic gold medals while playing for Canada those years. In and , he helped propel the Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup. And few players seem to have more fun playing the game. He also has two Olympic gold medals on his mantle. The only goalie in NHL history to win at least 30 games in his first seven seasons, King Henrik has become the toast of New York while setting Rangers club records for wins during the regular season and playoffs He led the team to the Stanley Cup Final in and backstopped Sweden to the silver medal at the Sochi Olympics, adding to the gold medal he won at the Turin Games in A two-time Stanley Cup champ and Conn Smythe Trophy winner in , Quick has emerged as one of the stingiest goalies in the game.
Despite weighing pounds, he is so flexible and capable of covering the entire lower portion of the net that his teammates took to calling him Gumby.
His combined marks in the and playoffs. Despite missing considerable time due to a broken leg suffered in Nov. Ovi edged Sidney Crosby for the Calder Trophy during the first post-lockout season and has gone on to light the lamp times in games, leading the NHL in goals four times and producing four point seasons. Three years later, he won the Conn Smythe Trophy.
At 27, his Hall-of-Fame career is likely only half over. Scoring —04 : 6, total goals 5. Owners wanted a salary cap linked to revenues; the players did not want the link. Player salaries had become a serious issue: The NHL was paying a far higher than average three-quarters of league revenue on salaries, and several teams were on the brink of bankruptcy.
After days of lockout, an agreement was finally reached that lowered guaranteed salaries to 54 percent of total league revenues. Nevertheless, the league stabilized financially after the lockout and player salaries have continued to rise.
As a result of the lockout, the season was cut from 82 to 48 games. Once again, owners, represented by Bettman, were attempting to control player salaries through modifications to the salary cap, player contracts, arbitration and free agency rules. An agreement was finally reached that mostly satisfied both sides, and thankfully the season was salvaged.
This time, fan sentiment appeared more positive, with game attendance increasing during the shortened season. Hockey is on the verge of losing games due to a lockout for the third time in 18 years.
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The epic — lockout in the National Hockey League NHL caused the entire season to be lost, an unprecedented outcome in professional team sports. This was the third major lockout in the NHL in the past 20 years.
Before the mids, major work stoppages in sports were predominantly strikes. The money pie to be divided between owners and players grew along with the expansion of leagues into new markets and the acquisition of lucrative national television contracts.
This newfound wealth was hotly contested, and negotiations frequently dissolved into strikes called by unions late in the season. These strikes were especially costly to owners, who received the largest share of their television revenues from postseason play.
The last big strike in professional team sports was in Major League Baseball MLB in — and resulted in the cancellation of regular-season games, the playoffs, and the World Series. This tactic would shift the economic burden toward the players, who would have yet to receive paychecks for games played. That lockouts have given owners a bargaining edge is indicated by the substantially reduced percentage of total revenue received by players in recent settlements in the NFL, NBA, and NHL.
Another factor contributing to lockouts is the small residual effect of canceled games on subsequent attendance. Martin Schmidt and David Berri found that attendance in years following a strike or lockout does not show a significant dropoff from that during the years before the stoppage.
In , the NHLPA resurfaced as a viable organization under the leadership of Toronto lawyer Alan Eagleson, who secured formal recognition of the union by the league. Eagleson, who assumed the role of executive director of the organization, also represented players—including the great Boston Bruins defenseman Bobby Orr—as an agent in their individual salary negotiations. Bob Goodenow, a Detroit lawyer and a player agent, took over the union when Eagleson departed in Goodenow led the union in its first work stoppage, a day strike at the end of the season.
While at the NBA, Bettman designed and implemented the first modern-day salary cap in team sports. Soon after becoming NHL commissioner, Bettman had a collective bargaining conflict with league referees. When the referees struck for 17 days, he hired replacement officials and negotiated an agreement favorable to the league. With this victory behind him, Bettman entered negotiations with the players in , determined to limit their salaries with a surcharge similar to the luxury tax in MLB, which penalizes teams with outsized payrolls.
In January , following a day lockout, an eleventh-hour settlement was reached. Only 48 regular-season games were played, the same number as was to be played in the — season. Although the agreement was hailed as a clear victory for the owners, they continued to pay big salaries to players.
The union was adamantly opposed to this notion, insisting that it wanted salaries based on market conditions and that it would never agree to cap team payrolls. Goodenow and Bettman did not mix well and engaged in a battle of words in the media. In a last-ditch effort to save the season, the league dropped its demand that salaries not exceed 55 percent of revenue.
In response, the union reconsidered its initial position and indicated its willingness to accept a salary cap. However, the parties were far apart on how much the salary cap should be and could not close the gap. When neither side made further concessions, time ran out. When games resumed for the — season, few, if any, observers would have imagined that the league and the union would ever reach the precipice of a lost season again.
Saskin, however, was fired by the union in after being accused of spying on players by tapping into their email accounts. Fehr oversaw work stoppages in baseball, including the — strike. Yet despite robust revenue growth, the team salary cap, and a cap on rookie salaries, the league was not entirely healthy.
Thus, not only was there a bigger pot of money to contest in negotiations, but hockey team owners were getting a smaller share of revenues than their counterparts were in other sports. A considerable difference exists in the economic welfare of teams.
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