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Crazy Americans

Ste
in ForzaMinardi.com Forum -- The Pub
Today at 4 o clock the NHL has decided to cancel an entire season!!!!

How loopy is that??!!

.....Only in America! ;)

NHL calls time on 2004/05 season

Bettman has played it tough with the Players' Association
The NHL season has finally been cancelled after players and owners failed to reach a last-ditch agreement.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman broke the news after a final 1600 GMT deadline for resolution passed on Wednesday.

"I have no choice but to cancel the 2004-05 season - this is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided," said Bettman.

This is the first time a North American professional sports league has lost an entire season due to a labour dispute.

And the Stanley Cup - the top prize in NHL - will not be awarded for the first time since 1919, when a flu epidemic forced the finals to be called off.

The NHL will persevere through this crisis - to emerge with a framework for the future, one that is fair to everyone

"We weren't as close as people were speculating," added Bettman.

"Through the decades and the generations we have faced a variety of crises and challenges - some of which seemed catastrophic at the time.

"The league persevered through all those adversities.

"And the league will persevere through this one - to emerge with a framework for the future, one that is fair to everyone - where players are fairly paid, receiving what we can afford."




Comments

  • MCSF
    Hockey sucks ass anyway - baseball is so close I can hear the balls being hit in the cages all over the south!
  • forzaminardi
    which means that there will be an awesome line up for the world championships here in Innsbruck! too bad I won't be here:(

    Finland- Sweden is one of the games they will show here; the US team will play here as well...
  • Jello_Biafra
    This sucks. The only plus is that since my parents won't be buying season tickets, they will be going on vacations and leaving the house to me.
  • forzaminardi
    the sharks being your team, right?
  • MCSF
    Party at jello's!
  • Jello_Biafra
    the sharks being your team, right?
    Yes sir, since day one!

    I was thinking a private party with the girflriend, Quigs. :hehe:
  • MCSF
    Cool - could you at least secretly film it - we could put it up on the web and cut our cost for Imola down to nothing!
  • Jello_Biafra
    You don't want to see that. Not because she isn't cute but because I'm not!
  • MCSF
    Understatement of the year.

    Plus, I though you said "girlfriends" - now that would sell. you on a solo op....
  • Jello_Biafra
    Actually, I might know a couple of lesbians... :hehe:
  • Murph
    "Actually, I might know a couple of lesbians... "

    hmmmmm..... where they lesbians BEFORE you met them ????
  • Ste
    Just look how well the Paris Hilton film has gone down, I think shes made a bit of cash from that!!
  • Jello_Biafra
    "Actually, I might know a couple of lesbians... "

    hmmmmm..... where they lesbians BEFORE you met them ????
    Yea, and now they're bisexual! *rimshot* :cool:
  • yokosuna
    [quote]the sharks being your team, right?
    Yes sir, since day one!

    I was thinking a private party with the girflriend, Quigs. :hehe: [/quote]

    Sharks roolz (specially Nabokov)
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