i swear the NHLPA are acting like a bunch of children. they are making no compremises, and it is pissing me, the owners, some of the players, and most of the fans off. they are like the 3 year olds in a store:

- "NO I WANT THAT ONE"
- "but we cant get that we dont have the money"
- "YOUR LIEING ITS IN YOUR PURSE"
- " no i am not here look for yourself,"
- "I DONT BELEIVE THAT YOU HAVE A SERCET POCKET SOME WHERE"
- "no i dont, what about this one"
- "I WANT THAT ONE"

That is literally how they are acting, they want a free market where teams can pay players as much as they want, the fact is that the league cannot afford to do that, because in a system like that only like 3 teams would have the money to get the good players and be able to contend, and that would leave you with 20 -25 other teams that would be losing money.( infact that is the current state of the NHL) its stupid, only one of the other 3 major sports have that system, thats baseball, and what do you get in baseball, teams like the yankees. baseball can in away afford to have free market system cus they got the money, the NHL doesnt have that amount of money. in baseball the stadiums can hold upto 40000 ppl, and they have about 140 games, in hokcey you have 80 games, and areas that hold about 19000 ppl. you dont have the same sort of money flowing in.